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Wing Commander
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Release Date Fall 1990


Introduction

Box Back Cover

Wing Commander I virtually created the space combat simulation genre when it arrived in the fall of 1990. It wasn't the first game where players flew a ship around in space, but it was the first to combine cutting edge graphics, a branching mission tree, complex characters and an exciting storyline. As a rookie pilot aboard the TCS Tiger's Claw, the player was introduced to the viscious feline Kilrathi. Over the course of dozens of missions, the Terran Confederation managed to force the Empire of Kilrah out of the Vega Sector. PC gamers used the original Wing Commander game to show off their powerful new 386 machines to their friends. The game exuded style and polish from the cockpit hand that followed players' joystick movements to the dripping bucket in the barracks.

You're a starfighter pilot, the best of the best, but nothing in your training prepared you for action this hot. Deepspace dogfights against Kilrathi aces are deadly, and the future of humanity is on the line each time you fly!

Wing Commander puts you in the middle of the most intense starship action you've ever experienced outside of a movie theater. But in Wing Commander, you're the star!

Description

System Requirements

Box Contents

Cover art for the Super Famicom port.
Cover art for the Super Nintendo port.
Cover art for the FM Towns port.

Credits

Advertising

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SNES

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Review

SNES

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Versions

Deluxe Edition: Included WC1, SM1, & SM2

Deluxe Edition CD: Included WC1, SM1, & SM2

Ports

SNES

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Strategy Guides

Online Guide

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Re-Releases

Screenshots

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Development

Mock-up of the original Wing Commander box cover art shown at COMDEX, the Computer Dealers' Exhibition.

Computer Gaming World article about professional artists working on video games -- which, it's hard to believe, was a fairly new concept at the time. The exciting aspect for Wing Commander fans, however, is the picture seen below (left): a landscape which was designed for but not used in the original Wing Commander. The caption reads: "'Water World' (Glen Johnson) Landscape removed from Wing Commander." Where could it have appeared? It's anyone's guess -- but a water planet, Hurricane, does appear in one of Wing Commander's winning/losing cutscenes -- it's pictured below (right)

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Patches / Addons

Origin

Editing Tools

Miscellaneous Files

Music

Tracks from Origin Audio CD Volume 1

Thanks to Sébastien Caty and Joe Garrity. (Details, more)


High Quality tracks


Live recordings


SegaCD audio tracks


FM Towns audio tracks


Various tracks

Manuals and Game Documentation

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Cutscenes

Ships

Terran Confederation

  • Fighters
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F-36 Hornet
CF-105 Scimitar
F-44 Rapier II
A-14 Raptor
  • Capital Ships
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Diligent-Class Transport
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Gettysburg-Class Cruiser
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Drayman
Diligent
Venture
Exeter
Gettysburg
Bengal

Empire of Kilrah

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KF-227 Salthi
KF-100 Dralthi
KF-402 Krant
Gratha
Jalthi
Bloodfang
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Dorkir
Lumbari
Ralari
Fralthi
  • Installations
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Star Post

Missions

Clicking on the system name will bring you to the first mission in that system.

Alpha Wing (Enyo System)Beta Wing (McAuliffe System)Zeta Wing (Gimle System)Gamma Wing (Dakota System)Theta Wing (Kurasawa System)Epsilon Wing (Venice System)Alpha Wing (Brimstone System)Gamma Wing (Rostov System)Delta Wing (Gateway System)Eta Wing (Port Hedland System)Beta Wing (Hell's Kitchen System)Epsilon Wing (Cheng-Du System)Kappa Wing (Hubble's Star System)WC1 Mission Tree
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Weapons

Guns

Missiles

Subcategories

This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.

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