October Brings Many Stops on Memory Lane

The second week of October caps a long list of release date anniversaries from the mid '90s. In the run up to the holiday season, numerous projects shipped around this time. The Kilrathi Saga turned 14 years old yesterday, and Wing Commander 4 on DVD turned 13 the day before. October 14 was also the ship date of Wing Commander Prophecy Gold in 1998 following a week behind the final Secret Ops episode. The Wing Commander 3 and 4 demos also saw the light of day on October 27, 1994 and October 19, 1995 respectively. The Prophecy 3DFX test? Not until November 1, 1997 (followed three days later by Privateer 2 Deluxe!). If there's any Wing Commander games you're missing after all these years, what are you waiting for!?

Wing Commander IV Storyboards - Scene 27

Scene 27 is Blair's first conversation with Captain Eisen aboard the Lexington. You can see how the storyboards indicate that a 'postage stamp' (moving character for the gameflow screens) is needed... and you have to dig the Captain's giant mustache!

These storyboard images were recovered from a backup CD containing materials belonging to Origin's web development team. They were dated November 17, 1995 and were likely planned for a never-completed web feature.