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Wing Commander
Wing Commander
Release Date	Fall 1990

Revision as of 19:18, 9 August 2012

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

SNES

Review

SNES

Versions

Deluxe Edition: Included WC1, SM1, & SM2

Deluxe Edition CD: Included WC1, SM1, & SM2

Ports

SNES

Strategy Guides

Wing Commander I & II: The Ultimate Strategy Guide

Re-Releases

Screenshots

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)

Patches / Addons

Origin

Editing Tools

Miscellaneous Files

Music

Tracks from Origin Audio CD Volume 1

Wing Commander - Briefing and Scramble by The Fatman
Wing Commander - Briefing and Launch by The Fatman
Wing Commander - Fanfare, The Main Theme by David Govett
Wing Commander - Flying to Dogfight by The Fatman
Wing Commander - Regular Combat by David Govett
Wing Commander - Heroes Funeral by David Govett
Wing Commander - Swing Commander by The Fatman
Compilation of the above (9:06) - 7,960k

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

High Quality tracks

Live recordings

Wing Commander Theme (surf music) by The Fatman and Team Fat (2:49) - 2,600K, Details

SegaCD audio tracks

Track 2 - General Music
Track 3 - Winning Endgame
Track 4 - Losing Endgame
Track 5 - Carrier Destroyed
Track 6 - General Music
(Details)

FM Towns audio tracks

Wing Commander Theme

Various tracks

Manuals and Game Documentation

Cheats

DOS Edition

Start the game with "wc Origin" at the command line to enter debug mode.
Alt-Del destroys target. Alt-Ins destroys targetted enemy wing.
Start the game with wc.exe Origin -k.
Same as above, plus invincibility.

Kilrathi Saga Edition

With invincibility off, open wingcmdr.cfg. Make sure it contains -k -b. Turning invincibility back on may cause your name to change back to CHEATER.
Player name is no longer replaced with "CHEATER" when invincibility is enabled.