@onldhes yes, yes it is. unless you have a old system with dos then you may want to play with the DOS box(since Wing Commander's 1-3 were made for DOS) settings a bit or else your going to get snail paced Dog fights when there's more then 2 or 3(counting yours or you wing man's) ships going at it. Which is due to the games engine and not the DOS emulation as if I recall the game had minor slowdown even when I was playing it nativley in dos on my old 486.
@Picollo30 You can buy it off GOG.com for a dirt cheap price, which is highly recommended. Unless you look to find yourself an original copy like myself. But as you ask if you can run it on Win' 7, I suppose you don't plan on doing that. But just search GOG, you'll find this game on there, and it's the CD version so it has voice acting too! (I think)
This is awesome. I played the heck out of this game on my 486 DX2 66mhz. back in the day! Had to use a bootable 3 1/2" floppy to really get the memory management just right in DOS so it'd play well.
@edbad85 wow lucky for you that u discovered girls,I discovered games in high school, for me it was a tough choice, girls or games. of corse I was a dumbass and chose games.
I remember this game well. I always killed my wingmate at the first opportunity because otherwise they just get in the fucking way all of the time. Destroying your home base was good for a chuckle too.
Yes I believe I played this one on my Amiga 500+. When there were many ships I saw snapshots instead of moving picture, but I kept on playing till the end. Great game, amazing computer for that time.
I loved this part so much... It really did (and still does) give you goosebumps; your first real mission, and things were so calm before and suddenly it's "omg war!!"... Also, the part where Spirit dies and her funeral, so cinematic and dramatic ;)
I loved this game, But still think it needed quicker auto firing photons!! but the rockets were fun, and that scramble scene !!: Nostalgia overload dude ! :-D I remember the soundcard I had was a Gravis Ultrasound :P
I loved this game, But still think it needed quicker auto firing photons!! but the rockets were fun, and that scramble scene !!: Nostalgia overload dude ! :-D I remember the soundcard I had was a Gravis Ultrasound :P
I wish they didn't all but stop making space-sim games. X-wing alliance was getting SOOO Good and looked SOOO awesome.
I can't even imagine, how amazing a Wing Cammander 2011 or X-Wing _____ would look ... I guess we still have flight-sims like H.A.W.K. 2 but space-sims are there own level of cool.
please, anyone in game design, make a wing commander or privateer game that won't suck! Also, I will not stand for this HUD only ...I want my cockpits back.
@YappyRaccoon Nice comeback man lol you really are more pathetic than you looked. Really appreciate ur nice visit to my channel. Have you seen a psychiatrist lately dipshit. Don't think so :P
@AndrewSmith00000007 There was something with memory. It either required XMS or EMS, not sure now. But with that thing on, you had extra stuff (animated hand in cockpit, some effects, pilot's appearing in MDF when talking. So maybe you could play with just 640k.
I lost Spirit in mission 6. A lot of years ago ... that was a bad day !!! I remember that to see the hand and the cloche in the ship , you needed a mathematic coprocessor or a coprocessor emulator (like Falcon 3.0) and also a lot of expanded memory, at least 1 MB !!!!!! Great Game, Thanks
xxxdieselyyy: I have that Wing Commander Book at home which is kind of a tutorial. I have counted it once, there are more than 25 enemy fighters you have to fight. Although you have Hunter as your Wingman, its still hard as shit!
The funny thing about Maniac, even though you never want him as your wingman, by the end of the game he's one of the top aces on board the Tiger's Claw. Of course, if you manage to beat the game in the minimum number of missions (18, IIRC), you'll never have to fly with him.
On the other hand, if you have an old computer, and you want to run the original, it runs perfectly on a 386-33 or a 486 running around 14 or 15 MHz (I had a board on which I was able to manage this -- I clocked it down to 7.5 MHz and my DX2 ran at 15). Whatever speed/cpu combo will get you about 11 x86 MIPS, that's what you want.
You only get Maniac as a wingman if you screw up a mission.
As for downloading, the Wing Commander trilogy is available somewhere for download, and it runs on Windows (although I might have been using Windows 98 back when I tried it). It's updated for faster computers, so you don't need a 386-33 or mo'slo to be playable.
Ah, but for what I remember playing was Decent: FreeSpace The Great War, that game redefined how I could imagine a video game and no game has ever had the same type of effect on me that it had. It felt so real.
I had to reinstall it several times over all the years to play through it again, and I'll have to get it again from Goodoldgames now I think as well as the sequel.
You can search it and download it for free along with DosBox which will emulate DOS so you can install and play just like in the ol' days! :-D There's a version of DosBox for Windows and for Mac, and for other operating systems as well! :) Good hunting!
@mbe102 - It was a wonderful graphics in 1990. I played it on an AMD 386 - 40 MHz. I nearly freaked out when I saw it the first time (I think it was summer 1990). To play a game like this was my dream in the 1980s an in 1990 it became true. ...
AND, good God: Why did you start firing so early? The laser's range is 4.800 m! You were glad that the Hornet's guns recharge that quickly, otherwise you'd be cat food by now. ;)
Thumbs up if you liked the freaking extensive handbook to that game, btw!
AND, good God: Why did you start firing so early? The laser's range is 4.800 m! You were glad that the Hornet's guns recharge that quickly, otherwise you'd be cat food by now. ;)
Thumbs up if you liked the freaking extensive handbook of that game, btw!
This Game is fucking epic. Its one of the first games i played so many fucking times that i knew the dialogs. Its quite hard,so you gotta play the shit outta it. Classic!
Can't think of too many games I've been more immersed in. That was the brilliance of this one, combining a compelling story with fun & rewarding gameplay. Always felt remiss if I didn't fly at least one mission every day and climb up the kill board.
cant beat the old skool games, i mean these days the graphics are great but i could not imagine me in 10 years time playing them again unlike these old games i can play these over an over, i miss these times.
I still get goosebumps too! I love the music and animation of that scene.
Weird thing: In high school, 1992-1996 we had this in the computer lab---no sound! I had loved the scramble sequence then...but it wasn't until later I got sound.
I remember visiting some friends in Denver where we were going to make a short movie and I wasted so much time playing this for the 1st time instead of writing...lol
oh man this is awesome i too would use a joystick, which always needed calibrating or something, why did they always need to be calibrated so much lol. the last bit with the bar guy and the simulator and the chalk board oh yes memories!
I've been in love with this game since my brother first bought it around 1992.
The cutscenes and graphics were mind blowing back then, and the cutscenes still hold up pretty good today. This was a fantastic game, and the soundtrack is still one of the greatest ever composed, oh how I wish some of those video game orchestras could perform this music, not just JRPG soundtracks. The music played in the mission failed debriefing still gives me goosebumps. I wish the franchise would return some day
I've played this old but cool game back in the 90's but I really don't remember the sounds were so LAUGHABLE! :-P (I think you've sped up the video and that's the resuslt?)
Oh man, this game...the music, the visuals, the gameplay...this game was my best friend for years. Great video, brought back some awesome memories...Thanks!
In terms of overall gameplay, Prophecy to me felt the most like the original sprite-based games, WC1 and WC2. But in terms of the intangibles, Prophecy was seriously lacking in that sense of wonder that pervaded Chris Roberts' entire Wing Commander run. Despite the fact I wasn't fond of how WC3 and WC4 played, the cinematics were worth the 15-odd floppies and the ridiculously long install time.
What?? Neither of those games were ever on floppies! WC3 came out on CD-ROM, and WC4 also did... Though later on, WC4 was made available on DVD-ROM. You can still find copies of the DVD version, but they are kinda rare, and hence expensive.
I played this game with a saitek x52 pro on dosbox :D Very good game, I love the Hornet! The sequel, Wing Commander 2 is very good too. I haven't finished the expansions yet. My favourite game in the series is Wing Commander 3, though.
Story, acting and production-wise Wing Commander Prophecy is the black sheep in the series. Personally I hate it. Typical EA to destroy franchises like that. Instead of playing as Blair, you play as a retarded kid/hotshot. And Maniac behaved like a stupid jackarse. The relationship between Blair and Todd was gone. So yeah, count me out.
Love this game so much. Anyone notice how Battlestar Galactica copied most of it? Also, do they make a more recent one. I want to waste hours of my life again behind the flight stick.
@431clubGF Well, the original Battlestar Galactica was made in the late 70's to early 80's, so Wing Commander was clearly inspired by that show and Star Wars in it's fighter- and capital ship designs, as well as the soundtrack, and the new Battlestar Galactica still use the ship designs from the original show, nothing copied from Wing Commander.
I must say then when I saw the new BSG I instantly felt it was the perfect Wing Commander TV show. The WC movie failed, but BSGs atmosphere was spot on.
The new BSG is a great show. My bro-in-law has the whole series on DVD and we are finishing it up soon. That being said do you know any games that are recent that resemble a wing commander type game?
@431clubGF The genre hasn't got much attention in recent years, but I just found one I hadn't heard about before, Dark Horizon from 2008. Seems to be a bit more arcade style than Wing Commander, but at least first person space combat with something resembling a story. There are of course less recent stuff like Starlancer, Freelancer and Independence War 2, but it's been 7 years since those were released.
i bought this game of my good mate from school for £7 back in the 90's...this week i found the game in my loft (i am moving house) and have just been told my mate who sold me the game in the mid 90's has died aged 30 :(
Is that hissing sound when you're flying supposed to be the RCS System?
I sorely wish they'd re-release the Wing Commander trilogy for newer systems, like they did for the Dark Forces Saga. I cut my teeth on the X-wing series, then I thought Starlancer was the ultimate in space sims. But then I see all these Wing Commander videos and it just makes me wish I could find a copy that'll work on my Vista. *sigh*
I would recommend you either get a copy of "The Kilrathi Saga", or download the free Amiga emulator WinUAE and play the original Amiga version on that.
Btw, was it just me or did the your wing man NEVER do anything?
carcomp101 1 week ago
Who besides me spent ages optimizing config.sys and autoexec.bat to run emm386 at its maximum so you could get the in-game music?
carcomp101 1 week ago
@thekze most likely
MrRevoltRed 2 weeks ago
I can remember playing this game back in the day. Thanks for posting the video. Brought back memories.
ace942 1 month ago
Beating this game was how I knew I was a man
trentonx 1 month ago
Do you think I would find this fun? I have never played it before but I am tempted to buy it.
onldhes 2 months ago
@onldhes yes, yes it is. unless you have a old system with dos then you may want to play with the DOS box(since Wing Commander's 1-3 were made for DOS) settings a bit or else your going to get snail paced Dog fights when there's more then 2 or 3(counting yours or you wing man's) ships going at it. Which is due to the games engine and not the DOS emulation as if I recall the game had minor slowdown even when I was playing it nativley in dos on my old 486.
Evilmonkey66699 2 weeks ago
Star Wars clone!
Raptor8762 2 months ago
Yeah we had this right between Wolfenstein 3D and The Rise Of The Triad, but it did have a defective level that wouldn't let you finish.
ChicaWolverina 2 months ago
Has anyone ever try to blow up the mother ship? I did.
asutn 3 months ago
@asutn
All the time, it took a while in the Hornet though!
coyran 3 months ago
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asutn 3 months ago
Gog games work on my Vista x64
thebes56 4 months ago
4 Kilrathi hacked the human servers...
marie2264 4 months ago
does it work on windows 7 x64?
Picollo30 4 months ago
@Picollo30 You can buy it off GOG.com for a dirt cheap price, which is highly recommended. Unless you look to find yourself an original copy like myself. But as you ask if you can run it on Win' 7, I suppose you don't plan on doing that. But just search GOG, you'll find this game on there, and it's the CD version so it has voice acting too! (I think)
CaptainAppleManFilms 1 month ago
This is awesome. I played the heck out of this game on my 486 DX2 66mhz. back in the day! Had to use a bootable 3 1/2" floppy to really get the memory management just right in DOS so it'd play well.
C5Rigzz 4 months ago
ZOMG!!!!
# yum install dosbox
fukawi1 5 months ago
omg this is so old I used to play it as a kid having no idea what I was doing lmao
dragoon2784 5 months ago
gawd .. this used to be my fav game .. i soo miss this .... any torrents out for this
x0druid0x 5 months ago
@x0druid0x
it's sold really cheap at good old games (gog.com)
Kamfrenchie 4 months ago
@Kamfrenchie TY sooo much. I bought this from gog ... fully compatible with WIN 7/Vista or any other NTFS kernel structures =)
x0druid0x 4 months ago
@x0druid0x
you're welcome :)
Kamfrenchie 4 months ago
@x0druid0x Abandonia has the first two games.
coyran 3 months ago
@coyran i found them already .. thank you tho
x0druid0x 3 months ago
gawd .. this used to be my fav game .. i soo miss this .... any torrents out for this ????
x0druid0x 5 months ago
I'd still rather play this than any modern game. This game was my entire childhood until I discovered girls.
edbad85 6 months ago
@edbad85 wow lucky for you that u discovered girls,I discovered games in high school, for me it was a tough choice, girls or games. of corse I was a dumbass and chose games.
gnome33 5 months ago
I remember this game well. I always killed my wingmate at the first opportunity because otherwise they just get in the fucking way all of the time. Destroying your home base was good for a chuckle too.
EdMcStinko 6 months ago
Maniac...I killed him first chance I got. The funeral was lovely.
bonorye 7 months ago
Nice
TroyMclore 7 months ago
Yes I believe I played this one on my Amiga 500+. When there were many ships I saw snapshots instead of moving picture, but I kept on playing till the end. Great game, amazing computer for that time.
misekmoj 7 months ago
this and tie fighter define me as a person
TheBlitz1 7 months ago
Learn to shoot ahead of moving enemies...lol. @dimebag1977 Yeah I put serious time on my old Amiga 500 with this game. Ahhh, memories
dozer2025 7 months ago
The amount of times I died to an asteroid in the face...
schizophrenic123 8 months ago
I like to crash into big ships....
evilperson86u 8 months ago
I loved this part so much... It really did (and still does) give you goosebumps; your first real mission, and things were so calm before and suddenly it's "omg war!!"... Also, the part where Spirit dies and her funeral, so cinematic and dramatic ;)
Samoutuomas 8 months ago
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I loved this game, But still think it needed quicker auto firing photons!! but the rockets were fun, and that scramble scene !!: Nostalgia overload dude ! :-D I remember the soundcard I had was a Gravis Ultrasound :P
eorthen 9 months ago
I loved this game, But still think it needed quicker auto firing photons!! but the rockets were fun, and that scramble scene !!: Nostalgia overload dude ! :-D I remember the soundcard I had was a Gravis Ultrasound :P
eorthen 9 months ago
I wish they didn't all but stop making space-sim games. X-wing alliance was getting SOOO Good and looked SOOO awesome.
I can't even imagine, how amazing a Wing Cammander 2011 or X-Wing _____ would look ... I guess we still have flight-sims like H.A.W.K. 2 but space-sims are there own level of cool.
Burchnall87 10 months ago
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Burchnall87 10 months ago
Great: thanks so much for bringing it back!
Senor0Droolcup 10 months ago
It was a long wait but when this eventually came out on the Amiga500 I was hooked.
mynamesforest 10 months ago
The scramble animation still gives me goosebumps...
42DangerVision 11 months ago
Perfect!!!!!!
altariongr 11 months ago
What is the best speed in an asteroid field? 220 ;)
kFrederking 1 year ago
Lots of great memories
sj702 1 year ago
@sj702 This game made me buy a PC :) Thanks for the upload! Gives me goose bumps too :)
sj702 1 year ago
oh my gosh, now this brings back memories!
ssejr01 1 year ago
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please, anyone in game design, make a wing commander or privateer game that won't suck! Also, I will not stand for this HUD only ...I want my cockpits back.
Cobopolies 1 year ago
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Cobopolies 1 year ago
this game is legendary, i played the sht out of it when it was first released. isn't there a way to play these DOS games again?
Sliider36 1 year ago
@Sliider36 There is. DosBox or windows version. The latter is preferable: the dos version is very onoptimized.
ShadeAKAhayate 11 months ago
I LOVED this game when it first came out. I so wish I could play it again.
ccantrell31 1 year ago
who else came here because of the Todd Howard interview?
dmanschaumbizzie 1 year ago
Such a cool game. The music and briefing make me feel like I just traveled back in time.
YappyRaccoon 1 year ago
@YappyRaccoon Nice comeback man lol you really are more pathetic than you looked. Really appreciate ur nice visit to my channel. Have you seen a psychiatrist lately dipshit. Don't think so :P
xXEdXx17 1 year ago
DONT PRESS the EJECT button! THATS THE RED ONE! dont PRESS IT! lol lol
KeIIinator 1 year ago
DIE Kilrathi scum!
Reminiscable 1 year ago
this was a game!!!
SiebzehnUndVier 1 year ago
Hey mate, I uploaded Roland MT-32 versions on my Channel if you are interested! I also fixed the aspect ratio (yours are stretched a little bit)
Mau1wurf1977 1 year ago
lol I remember I couldn't run this game because it requires 4mb ram and my computer had only 640kb.
AndrewSmith00000007 1 year ago 19
@AndrewSmith00000007 Now 8 damn gigs is pretty much the standard today.
Fredo5227 1 month ago
@Fredo5227 8GB's is a bit too much, I'd say 4GB is the standard.
sirlag01 4 weeks ago
@AndrewSmith00000007 There was something with memory. It either required XMS or EMS, not sure now. But with that thing on, you had extra stuff (animated hand in cockpit, some effects, pilot's appearing in MDF when talking. So maybe you could play with just 640k.
kotowate 4 weeks ago
anywhere to dl this and play? Be nice
warriorfire8103 1 year ago
god I miss this game.. and the arrow yer flying.. not my fav ship.. fast but made of paper
XJadynX 1 year ago
I lost Spirit in mission 6. A lot of years ago ... that was a bad day !!! I remember that to see the hand and the cloche in the ship , you needed a mathematic coprocessor or a coprocessor emulator (like Falcon 3.0) and also a lot of expanded memory, at least 1 MB !!!!!! Great Game, Thanks
gigliom 1 year ago
Pew! Pew!
idlewild 1 year ago
xxxdieselyyy: I have that Wing Commander Book at home which is kind of a tutorial. I have counted it once, there are more than 25 enemy fighters you have to fight. Although you have Hunter as your Wingman, its still hard as shit!
MaddinW1993 1 year ago
Anyway, you can download Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga at classic-pc-games. com.
OneEyedJack1970 1 year ago
The funny thing about Maniac, even though you never want him as your wingman, by the end of the game he's one of the top aces on board the Tiger's Claw. Of course, if you manage to beat the game in the minimum number of missions (18, IIRC), you'll never have to fly with him.
OneEyedJack1970 1 year ago
On the other hand, if you have an old computer, and you want to run the original, it runs perfectly on a 386-33 or a 486 running around 14 or 15 MHz (I had a board on which I was able to manage this -- I clocked it down to 7.5 MHz and my DX2 ran at 15). Whatever speed/cpu combo will get you about 11 x86 MIPS, that's what you want.
OneEyedJack1970 1 year ago
You only get Maniac as a wingman if you screw up a mission.
As for downloading, the Wing Commander trilogy is available somewhere for download, and it runs on Windows (although I might have been using Windows 98 back when I tried it). It's updated for faster computers, so you don't need a 386-33 or mo'slo to be playable.
OneEyedJack1970 1 year ago
Nice flying mcBucko! ;-)
...You flew through like 3 asteroids!!
philhines 1 year ago
someones playing with cheats on how sad to need to cheat at this awesome game
MrKingkopite 1 year ago
Man I miss this game ----- paladin ach they caught me with my kilt down
MrKingkopite 1 year ago
Damn, these graphics must've been freaking amazing at the time. I missed this generation of Gaming, would've been awesome though.
mbe102 1 year ago
@mbe102
I have faint memories of this game when I was like four years old.
I think it's possible to get it running on modern PCs with a few tricks or something.
Usul573 1 year ago
@Usul573
Ah, but for what I remember playing was Decent: FreeSpace The Great War, that game redefined how I could imagine a video game and no game has ever had the same type of effect on me that it had. It felt so real.
I had to reinstall it several times over all the years to play through it again, and I'll have to get it again from Goodoldgames now I think as well as the sequel.
Usul573 1 year ago
@Usul573
You can search it and download it for free along with DosBox which will emulate DOS so you can install and play just like in the ol' days! :-D There's a version of DosBox for Windows and for Mac, and for other operating systems as well! :) Good hunting!
philhines 1 year ago
@mbe102 - It was a wonderful graphics in 1990. I played it on an AMD 386 - 40 MHz. I nearly freaked out when I saw it the first time (I think it was summer 1990). To play a game like this was my dream in the 1980s an in 1990 it became true. ...
bavarikus 1 year ago
@bavarikus Ha! Me to! We had just purchased a 386 and this was what my dad bought with it. Had no idea how freakin' epic it would be. Good times.
ccantrell31 1 year ago
My childhood right there... my name being Christopher, I loved imagining Christopher Blair being me in the future lol
Krianbane77 1 year ago
The last mission on the losing sector was a blast
xxxdieselyyy 1 year ago
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AND, good God: Why did you start firing so early? The laser's range is 4.800 m! You were glad that the Hornet's guns recharge that quickly, otherwise you'd be cat food by now. ;)
Thumbs up if you liked the freaking extensive handbook to that game, btw!
x0einstein0x 1 year ago
AND, good God: Why did you start firing so early? The laser's range is 4.800 m! You were glad that the Hornet's guns recharge that quickly, otherwise you'd be cat food by now. ;)
Thumbs up if you liked the freaking extensive handbook of that game, btw!
x0einstein0x 1 year ago
wow look how slow this game runs on this computer :(
icemanss45 1 year ago
This game was so epic when I was young. Brings back memories! But the music isn't nearly as awesome hearing it now compared to then.
nsmadsen 1 year ago
This Game is fucking epic. Its one of the first games i played so many fucking times that i knew the dialogs. Its quite hard,so you gotta play the shit outta it. Classic!
Flugplatz89 1 year ago
looks like he's holding his weiner
turdbutt89 1 year ago
Can't think of too many games I've been more immersed in. That was the brilliance of this one, combining a compelling story with fun & rewarding gameplay. Always felt remiss if I didn't fly at least one mission every day and climb up the kill board.
droctagon187 1 year ago
OMG
I just got goosebumps watching this.
Reyendric 1 year ago
man i remember buying a sound blaster to get the speach pack to work and the blue prints copy protection
MrMatt29999 1 year ago
My respect! Mouse Flying was very bad at WC1 & 2
OGDrecksau 1 year ago
i remember the music did sound better on my amiga?! Is that possible, or is my memory an epic fail?
schnubbel76 1 year ago
@schnubbel76
I've seen footage from the Amiga ersion. You're right.
But the music in the Kilrathi Saga version is better than both if you ask me, even if the briefing music is shorter.
FekLeyrTarg 1 year ago
@schnubbel76 Nah, your memory is not failing you. :) Back then, the Amiga was way ahead of the PC in both sound and graphics.
antred11 1 year ago
They don't make sims like this anymore.
jweav151 1 year ago
Frame rate is very low and choppy This is about how I it ran on my 286 while it was always cooler looking on my friends' 386s.
jdury 1 year ago
Man I loved this game on the amiga
tlammy78 1 year ago
yes the pilots running to the ship and the launch
nibelung34343 1 year ago
I need to play this game! The only version I've used was the inferior SNES version. I repeatedly crashed into asteroids in the field.
trmblingblustar 1 year ago
this shit.. xwing...tie fighter.. f19 stealth fighter.. Dove me up a fucking wall at 8
gtsport02 1 year ago
cant beat the old skool games, i mean these days the graphics are great but i could not imagine me in 10 years time playing them again unlike these old games i can play these over an over, i miss these times.
dannyboiii19 1 year ago
That PEW sound is AWESOME!!
Fishfish458 1 year ago
I still get goosebumps too! I love the music and animation of that scene.
Weird thing: In high school, 1992-1996 we had this in the computer lab---no sound! I had loved the scramble sequence then...but it wasn't until later I got sound.
I have the mp3 as a ring tone.
Tigerman1138 1 year ago
Loved the scramble music. Only thing that drove me nuts is when maniac would be behind me and unload an an enemy ship leaving me totally in the red.
xagcx 1 year ago
"my honor is to obey" LOL crazy japs
jros83 1 year ago
My first PC Game...wow, what a Eyecatcher.
michelkoch 1 year ago
i loved this game.
DerMessermann 1 year ago
lol the sfx on the guns remind me of the lolcat with pew pew pew on it
Forthias 1 year ago
i miss the good ol days.
tiemo25 1 year ago 6
me not, i get headache from this graphic ;)
schiggodilaggi 1 year ago
I remember visiting some friends in Denver where we were going to make a short movie and I wasted so much time playing this for the 1st time instead of writing...lol
KCJazzKeys 2 years ago
@KCJazzKeys
it's amazing man, i was here in canada wasting the same time writing my new book , blumber blumblers :)
tiemo25 1 year ago
Great, and jeah! The launch of the fighter is still impressing and gives me goosepumps too!
Winnywindl 2 years ago
How do you get this to play?
It plays 50x faster than this on my computer.
Mrblancnoir 2 years ago
you can use dosbox and it will play sweet google it
ssegabriel 1 year ago
oh man this is awesome i too would use a joystick, which always needed calibrating or something, why did they always need to be calibrated so much lol. the last bit with the bar guy and the simulator and the chalk board oh yes memories!
skyler696 2 years ago
Brings back a lot of memories... but I can't imagine playing it with a mouse as this video showed. Had to have a joystick.
AlmegaOpha 2 years ago
I had the game on pc and we played it all day for weeks lol ... cool for the upload, it is nice to see a it again after a long time ... Great video
MagicCadillac 2 years ago
had this on amiga.. legend!!!
dimebag1977 2 years ago 14
The Amiga version ruled! Eh compadre? :)
FredDude27 2 years ago 2
Good God man, you must learn to rely on your guns or you'll be f***ed when you get Maniac on your wing ;)
gatzad 2 years ago 11
Ah, yes, the asteroid dance.
ZeromusChom 2 years ago
sigh.....memories :)
skinchen 2 years ago
This game is 20 years old this year. It's still a fantastic game. Of course it has always been one of timeless classics
EmphaticItalic 2 years ago 3
SCAMBLE!!! And i too get goosebumps! ;) Thx for uploading! =)
Superlodahl 2 years ago 3
I've been in love with this game since my brother first bought it around 1992.
The cutscenes and graphics were mind blowing back then, and the cutscenes still hold up pretty good today. This was a fantastic game, and the soundtrack is still one of the greatest ever composed, oh how I wish some of those video game orchestras could perform this music, not just JRPG soundtracks. The music played in the mission failed debriefing still gives me goosebumps. I wish the franchise would return some day
fisk0 2 years ago
*Sigh* EVERYone knows that the maximum range of a laser cannon was 4800 kms.
It was one of the copyright protection questions.
TomRiker01 2 years ago
The Heart Of The Tiger was always my favorite, although The Price of Freedom was excellent. Nothing beats this though good old Claw.
NSAThrace 2 years ago
The game was so bad.
Arkanii1 2 years ago
What was the last thing you had to blow up in this game, it was a big Sphere, any one know what it was?
chrisblue77 2 years ago
@chrisblue77 It was a Kilrathi star port. It had powerful shields, if I remember correctly.
You had to fly via a couple of waypoints to get to it. With Kilrathi heavy fighters along the way. And asteroid fields. Hard mission.
tohopes 1 year ago
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PEW PEW PEW!
Anthaon 2 years ago
I've played this old but cool game back in the 90's but I really don't remember the sounds were so LAUGHABLE! :-P (I think you've sped up the video and that's the resuslt?)
TzeffNL 2 years ago
lol you're really not very good though are you!
murphy452 2 years ago
Oh man, this game...the music, the visuals, the gameplay...this game was my best friend for years. Great video, brought back some awesome memories...Thanks!
murphy452 2 years ago
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this is a great game
chetdog 2 years ago
In terms of overall gameplay, Prophecy to me felt the most like the original sprite-based games, WC1 and WC2. But in terms of the intangibles, Prophecy was seriously lacking in that sense of wonder that pervaded Chris Roberts' entire Wing Commander run. Despite the fact I wasn't fond of how WC3 and WC4 played, the cinematics were worth the 15-odd floppies and the ridiculously long install time.
JoelCold 2 years ago
What?? Neither of those games were ever on floppies! WC3 came out on CD-ROM, and WC4 also did... Though later on, WC4 was made available on DVD-ROM. You can still find copies of the DVD version, but they are kinda rare, and hence expensive.
bluetoaster8822 2 years ago
Doh...ur right, I been told. LOL It's been forever and I sometimes forget the CD ROM was around in the DOS days.
JoelCold 2 years ago
I played this game with a saitek x52 pro on dosbox :D Very good game, I love the Hornet! The sequel, Wing Commander 2 is very good too. I haven't finished the expansions yet. My favourite game in the series is Wing Commander 3, though.
phlogios 2 years ago
all i ask for is a raptor and some jalthi to tear from the sky with those lovely bullseye exhausts
arkerry 2 years ago
Wing Commander 6 Prophecy is pretty good. Runs under windows as well.
plasteredleg1 2 years ago
Story, acting and production-wise Wing Commander Prophecy is the black sheep in the series. Personally I hate it. Typical EA to destroy franchises like that. Instead of playing as Blair, you play as a retarded kid/hotshot. And Maniac behaved like a stupid jackarse. The relationship between Blair and Todd was gone. So yeah, count me out.
Madsy9 2 years ago
lmfao a blast from past
BACKacheSS 2 years ago
Pity they don't make first person space shooters like this any more
DefconWarningSystem 2 years ago
I still remember that rotten Hornet fighter. Yuck... The ships in this game were awful compared to the ones in Wing Commander Academy.
AstralDragoon 2 years ago
Ohooo ya man i love it!
xxxxroManxxxx 2 years ago
Love this game so much. Anyone notice how Battlestar Galactica copied most of it? Also, do they make a more recent one. I want to waste hours of my life again behind the flight stick.
431clubGF 2 years ago
@431clubGF Well, the original Battlestar Galactica was made in the late 70's to early 80's, so Wing Commander was clearly inspired by that show and Star Wars in it's fighter- and capital ship designs, as well as the soundtrack, and the new Battlestar Galactica still use the ship designs from the original show, nothing copied from Wing Commander.
I must say then when I saw the new BSG I instantly felt it was the perfect Wing Commander TV show. The WC movie failed, but BSGs atmosphere was spot on.
fisk0 2 years ago
The new BSG is a great show. My bro-in-law has the whole series on DVD and we are finishing it up soon. That being said do you know any games that are recent that resemble a wing commander type game?
431clubGF 2 years ago
@431clubGF The genre hasn't got much attention in recent years, but I just found one I hadn't heard about before, Dark Horizon from 2008. Seems to be a bit more arcade style than Wing Commander, but at least first person space combat with something resembling a story. There are of course less recent stuff like Starlancer, Freelancer and Independence War 2, but it's been 7 years since those were released.
fisk0 2 years ago
Thanks.
431clubGF 2 years ago
The gun sounds are adorable. Bew... bew... bew
immortalass 2 years ago
Oooh memories!
Pew Pew Pew Pew!
R1ddic 2 years ago 2
the music to this game is just too good
theamazingnapper 2 years ago 2
First VGA game I had....
iVTECInside 2 years ago
Man this was one of the first, if not *the* first PC game I bought. I played it sooo much it almost cost me a semester at college.
EvilWayne 2 years ago
looks a little bit like an X-Wing Fighter
baggedyman 2 years ago
i bought this game of my good mate from school for £7 back in the 90's...this week i found the game in my loft (i am moving house) and have just been told my mate who sold me the game in the mid 90's has died aged 30 :(
i am starting to feel old
best £7 i ever spent though
RIP stu
kingscriv 2 years ago
omg i remember spending soooo many late nights playing this game. :D
teedot 2 years ago
Is that hissing sound when you're flying supposed to be the RCS System?
I sorely wish they'd re-release the Wing Commander trilogy for newer systems, like they did for the Dark Forces Saga. I cut my teeth on the X-wing series, then I thought Starlancer was the ultimate in space sims. But then I see all these Wing Commander videos and it just makes me wish I could find a copy that'll work on my Vista. *sigh*
millenniumfalsehood 2 years ago
The Hissing occurs whenever you use the after-burners.
Also, download a DOSBox in order to play Wing Commander
negative1up 2 years ago
I would recommend you either get a copy of "The Kilrathi Saga", or download the free Amiga emulator WinUAE and play the original Amiga version on that.
FredDude27 2 years ago
Get the DOS version and run it under DOSBox.
anon2672 2 years ago
the game goes way to fast if u do that u need a very very old computer for that older then windows 98
naate222 2 years ago
i remember this, i had the second WC back in the day. i shot at everything, especially teammates, and spent hours trying to fly towards the planets
OrangeColita 2 years ago 2
Mmm, nostalgia. The music sure brings back memories.
Reclusiarch 2 years ago
I haven't played WC1 before, but man, is this opening is amazing.
The light / shadows on their clothes.
How the pilots don't all rise up at the same time.
The running in the hall.
And the unpararell movenents in the hangar.
HawaiiKnut 2 years ago 2
I no, it's just amazing for 1990s isn't it