The CIC's b-day should become a day when everyone starts playing WC from the start all the way through to SO. That way we can swap missions stories with them newly replayed in our heads. Nothing like another good tradition to add to the CIC's annual celebration...
This would be a really great idea. The only problem would be the massive amount of profanity spat out on the 'mission stories' thread on the first or second day whenever we would all be trying to save that captured Ralari-class destroyer in WC1. I have lost several glasses, three jewel cases, and a joystick to this mission. (Fail the mission, get angry, smash something, ya know the drill)
A friend of mine recently replaced my Kilrathi Saga CDs for me, saving me from having to drop several hundred bucks on them on eBay, but I still can't find my Kilrathi Saga manual. ::tears up:: I wish there was some way we could get enough people to sign a contract guaranteeing EA that they would purchase a complete line of legacy WC games optimized for newer systems so that they would do it.
Imagine how great the whole series would be if they optimized it for 3d-accelerated systems the way Lucasarts did for X-Wing and TIE Fighter? It's a damned crying shame that developers get bought up by conglomerates like EA and other companies that think if they can't sell a gazillion copies of a game at Wal-Mart, then the property isn't worth keeping alive.
Sorry to rant, but look at the properties that EA has that they aren't doing anything with:
Wing Commander
The entire Jane's series of military simulations
Ultima (non-online)
Dune
Populous
Maybe EA would produce another game if we renamed the series "The Sims: Wing Commander" and had John Madden play a main character. *sigh* I miss the games I grew up on.