This was the first game I ever heard audio dialogue in. I was so blown away by that and by the graphics, the detail, the storyline. Watching it now, it all looks kinda silly and cartoonish, in a way I didn't notice back then.
Man, I loved the Wing Commander games. They were the reason I bought my first computer. WC II is probably my favorite because, with the Special Ops add-ons and the huge story they told, you really got a lot of entertainment from them. Although Privateer holds a special place in my heart as well.
Origin games in general are some of my best memories of gaming in the '90's.
"We've developed inter-galactic travel, laser weapons that fire slower than the speed of light, torpedos that somehow work in space, and a method of stellar dogfighting at speeds slower than on earth during WWI, and we're fighting talking cats...I'm even prepared to believe that fucking hairdo...but a -cloaking device-? No, Captain, you blew up your own ship! Traitah!"
@Cherrybloodsyrup I don't think it feels that way, though. Zipping around and making turns like that would crush you at those speeds in real life. Probably. Donno...havn't tested it out myself...
I actually never liked the remixed, modernized music they added to the Kilrathi Saga, it sounded too homogenized and flat by comparison. Also, they didn't seem to even bother to sync the speech with the mouth movements so it looks like some bad Godzilla film. D:
And then there's torpedo launching....................
Launch moving *BOOM*, launch standing still *BOOM*. :/
@NameCallingIsWeak I was referring to the Windows 95 re-release from the Kilrathi Saga box set. Their mouths just keep running while they aren't talking, much like some old, terrible Godzilla flic. I played it originally on a 486-33 with the 900 1.44 floppy install and then the DOS CD version, both with the speech pack and both worked perfectly. :) The Win95 problem has persisted since I 1st played it on a K6.2 350 and again later on my 3ghz Pentium 4 machine. :/
@Elleroth In hindsight, perhaps there is something still left in the code that prevents it from recognizing a modern cpu that just causes it to assume it's on something slower than a 386-33..
Also, that torpedo issue in the Win95 release made blowing up K'tithrak Mang really fun! xD My solution was to pull up and hit the afterburner after launching.. One did go off right under me though which pretty much annihilated all my armor and shields. D:
@Elleroth - "referring to the Windows 95 re-release" Ah. Indeed one of the early complaints about gaming in Windows rather than DOS was the CPU overhead. What DID run seamlessly on a 386-33 in DOS, would chug-alug again in Windows.
Kills me, just KILLS me, that the Wing Commander movie was so utterly lame, when all the first three WC games were SO good - good plots, interesting characters. Lot of GREAT memories on all three games. And these opening cinematics were AWESOME!
I loved the way that the ancillary material, like the ship's newsletter, did a really nice job of establishing the honorable history of the Tiger's Claw, then you load up WC II and BOOM! She's GONE! Wow! Really bowled me over back in the day.
@radams36 Non-interactive entertainment is a thing of the past, and fully immersive experiences like Wing Commander are what killed it. A game "makes it" when it's a great game, not when it becomes a movie.
Anyone notice ol' blue hair makes the same exact facial expression as Owen Wilson's character in Behind Enemy lines when he's getting chewed out by the Admiral? Check out around 2:30. I need to make a "separated at birth?" slide show.
If I'm not mistaken this game used to come on 4 floppies only ! We used to play it on a simple 486 machine with 4MB RAM. Awesome game-play. How much hours I would spend on it !
Actually, the first game I saw that had voice output was an adventure - Sherlock Holmes. It was quite an incredible thing back then. Blew your mind. And I am pretty sure, it was quite some time before Wing Commander II. But dont ask me for the exact year.
I think the first Sherlock Holmes adventure which had speech was the Case of the Serrated Scalpel. That was a good few years after WC2. The Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective video FMV games were also after WC2, iirc.
I never realized this as a kid but man, could this be any more Welsh? I'm surprised the crew weren't wearing WRU jerseys and singing choir songs to welcome home returning fighters.
I really miss this game series. I miss dangling my Sabre just outside of antimatter gun range and jumping in the rear turret while my gunsite synched my torpedo with my objective's shields. I honest and truly hate the arcade style game that hit XBox Live.
I'm looking at box right now. Deluxe Edition with special ops 1&2.. I found it in a box out in the garage full of old dos games.. I lol at the sticker saying now on IBM CD-ROM. That was a big deal back then. Well this version is from 1995..but yeah.
This game looked pretty fucking awesome for it's time. And yes i played it ALOT back in the day. Miss those days when games actually were more than FPS... :P
i played what i believe was a remake of the first one way back when, i just started playin this one today, you can download it for free and play it with dosbox now. msg me if your interested. its simply an amazing game and makes me angry that i missed it when i actually had a joystick for my pc! lol
@11DNA11 yea, the only thing that sucks is the controls randomly stop responding at random intervals. Im slowly blundering my way through the game tho :)
@11DNA11 on like the second mission because when the controls stop they STOP and i cant do anything. forcing me to alt+f4 the game and restartin the mission. its awesome so far tho, reminds me a lot of free/starlancer
My old-time favourite game. Great music + great graphics and a fine soap opera plot! I still can feel the excitement when flying the Broadsword, getting a torpedo lock on a Kilrathi cruiser, approaching it with furball fighters on your tail, getting multiple hits from the cruiser's flak fire and listening to the music which starts when your ship takes enough hits...
I remeber getting this game for the IMB ps/2 computer we had in the early 90's and being so dissapointed the computer was 2 slow to run it, the cinematics were ok. . . but game play was a stunning 2 frames per second
Wing Commander has one of the best sci-fi stories ever. I think a TV Series should be produced but following the storiline acoording to the GAME. Season 1 could tell the storyline of Wing Commander 1 and Secret Missions 1 & 2. Season 2 would be Wing Commander 2 and Special Operations 1 & 2. The problem is to tell the story the right way we would get seasons as big as 40 episodes each.
Well, this was one of the first PC game to use digitized voices. All voice actors were members of the staff (Paul Arden Lidberg (Khasra) and Gilbert Austin (Prince Thrakhath) were scriptwriters, Ken Demarest III (Blair) was the AI Programmer, Kirk Winterrowd (Maniac) was in the Quality Assurance, etc.)
Haha, this is what I'm talking about! I remember playing this game like 15 years ago, we had a 386DX33 with a 125mb HDD and it was absurd because the game took 21 megs with the speech pack, lol.
WC2 = Best video game ever. Probably the game that put Sound Blaster on the map.
I think I could probably recite every damn line from this game word for word at this point, I'm gonna have the midi songs running through my head all night now, haha..
Depending on what version of the game you have, you can just jimmy it into functionality (and playability) by setting the games to XP compatibility as well.
I remember this game. It was the first time I heard digital speech on a computer game - it blew me away. I just had to get a sound card for my computer, and I begged my dad to get me one.
how dare you compare Wing Commander to something that lame as WoW! This addictive online-shit is not even close to the quality of Wing Commander, Monkey Island or any of these games... when people actually tried to make a good game and not only damn money
I think that maybe the point was that these games were complete stories, rather than persistent online worlds without a set beginning and end. I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that I played WC and beat it. No-one can say the same for a game such as WoW. I don't think this makes WoW inferior, just different. But, I prefer an Ultima 6 to an Ultima Online anyday. A WC3 to a WoW.
of course you can "beat" WoW as in complete all the content for a level capped character. You killed Kil'Jaeden and scored Gladiator at level 70, you definatly beat Burning Crusade.
just played through WC1 and did the first few missions of WC2 today on DosBox. Sadly WC2 isn't running stable as WC1 damn I'm having fun.
Never forget what Roberts did for gaming back then, right there with what Carmack did. Only his legacy is forgotten today because he tanked the franchise with the movie :(
kooodeal, do the world a favor and get laid. Oh, that is right, you are complaining about a video game because you can not get laid now, are you not? Douche nozzle.
kooodeal, why not make a better video game yourself if you are not such a fucking xenophobic, elitist, arrogant Luddite? Oh, right, I forgot, you are a hypocrite that has no life and that can not get laid now, can you?
This is when PC gaming mattered fully. Imagination was limitless and was more than simple powered armor space marines with generic backgrounds and macho BS.
1o years in a fucking space station- fucking tolwin u sorry sack of shit- if the kilrathi can fucking build a carrier to obliterate a planet, does the cloaking device sound unreasonable?
Yep, Tolwyn was a jerk, but some time before victory, he more or less began treating the player reasonably. Btw, I actually enjoyed flying with Broadsword (big, strong, clumsy bomber). Hooray for Thrakhath (since you get to combat him in the series) ! ;)
This game should get more recognition for the landmark that it was. The storytelling and characters in this one were just fantastic. No moment in gaming has stunned me in the same way that Spirit's sucide run did.
Honestly I wasn't shocked when she offed herself. The character hadn't been the same since her imprisonment (backstory) and the destruction of the Claw. Having given the char such a traditional Japanese upbringing the "kamikaze" seemed inevitable. I was 13 when I played this, Jeez I'm a nerd :-D
wow 386sx25? I was rocking a 386sx16. I remember I upgraded to the 486dx25 in anticipation of Strike Commander, which showed up, what, two years late?
I love the music in part 2 and part 3. I still have the Kilrathi Saga in its Boxset. Though it doesnt seem to run that well on XP anymore. Best thing to do is try and get an old PC with Windows 98 running on it to run these games well. Even play it with the Old School Saitek Cybord 3D joystick with a gameport connection. Lol
Download DosBox, man. All that the Kilrathi Saga is are the dos versions of the games, with a windows front-end. You can run the .exe's for 1 and 2 using DosBox, and it'll run perfectly.
That didn't work for me. It says that they can't be run in DOS mode, plus the music didn't work in Windows XP. Maybe it was just my distribution. Is it true that WC: Kilrathi Saga is free? If so, where can I get a better distribution? (Downloaded mine from Home Of The Underdogs)
i misst so much to play and feel.this was a game..........
Metal19063 4 days ago
Wing III & IV both deserve special mentions, but this probably had the strongest overall plot of any wing commander game.
BevellingRetorts 6 days ago
Is there a clip of the background music alone?
I remember watching this when I was 3 feet tall!
A long time ago!
o.O
momothebored 1 week ago
This was the best back in the day ~~ First Talking heads in games as far as I know? I watched this tons of times as a kid
Beatupstang 2 weeks ago
i think the wing universe could have done better than the wing movie i liked it but blah blah!
this was the early 90's i had most of the wc games 1 2 3&4 privateer 1&2 were ok armada i was just into the space sim thing in those days.
brybish 2 weeks ago
4 people never learned the "Origin -k" trick. :)
benbaked 2 months ago
@benbaked I don't know this trick either.
themaster408 3 weeks ago
286 or above... :( me a XT 8088
whiteskullwhiteskull 2 months ago in playlist Wing Commander 2 Cinematics
amazing animation
sucklingfatty 3 months ago
Fucking furrys.
redfoxbennaton 3 months ago
This was the first game I ever heard audio dialogue in. I was so blown away by that and by the graphics, the detail, the storyline. Watching it now, it all looks kinda silly and cartoonish, in a way I didn't notice back then.
OperatorOscillation 4 months ago
Think I just heard Frank Welker doing his Dr. Claw as a Kilrathi awesome!
grunthos 5 months ago
Man, I loved the Wing Commander games. They were the reason I bought my first computer. WC II is probably my favorite because, with the Special Ops add-ons and the huge story they told, you really got a lot of entertainment from them. Although Privateer holds a special place in my heart as well.
Origin games in general are some of my best memories of gaming in the '90's.
antduude 8 months ago
OMG this brought back memories. Was the first time I ever heard a computer speak. It was totally amazing!
netgrok 9 months ago
We must return to MIDI BGMs x) lol
Hellfireknightmare 9 months ago
Shit just got real...
tmanran 10 months ago 5
My neighbor has a cat that looks like that prince Drak'ath!
1:04 x3
Th3ba1r0n 11 months ago
did someone steal Mike Tyson's Tiger again? Gods I loved the Kilrathi, such villainy! I think IV was my favorite though.
NSAThrace 11 months ago
"We've developed inter-galactic travel, laser weapons that fire slower than the speed of light, torpedos that somehow work in space, and a method of stellar dogfighting at speeds slower than on earth during WWI, and we're fighting talking cats...I'm even prepared to believe that fucking hairdo...but a -cloaking device-? No, Captain, you blew up your own ship! Traitah!"
SpookyJohnathan 1 year ago 17
@SpookyJohnathan "a method of stellar dogfighting at speeds slower than on earth during WWI"
but the average speed of a fighter in these games is like 500 kilometers per second...
Cherrybloodsyrup 1 year ago
@Cherrybloodsyrup I don't think it feels that way, though. Zipping around and making turns like that would crush you at those speeds in real life. Probably. Donno...havn't tested it out myself...
SpookyJohnathan 1 year ago
@SpookyJohnathan Two words: Inertial dampening!
Hyeesa 8 months ago
@Hyeesa Traitah!
SpookyJohnathan 8 months ago
I want my Wing Commander and Origins back:((
killrathy 1 year ago 2
I actually never liked the remixed, modernized music they added to the Kilrathi Saga, it sounded too homogenized and flat by comparison. Also, they didn't seem to even bother to sync the speech with the mouth movements so it looks like some bad Godzilla film. D:
And then there's torpedo launching....................
Launch moving *BOOM*, launch standing still *BOOM*. :/
Elleroth 1 year ago
@Elleroth - "they didn't seem to even bother to sync the speech" You needed at least a 386-33 to get the lip-syncing working in real time.
NameCallingIsWeak 7 months ago
@NameCallingIsWeak I was referring to the Windows 95 re-release from the Kilrathi Saga box set. Their mouths just keep running while they aren't talking, much like some old, terrible Godzilla flic. I played it originally on a 486-33 with the 900 1.44 floppy install and then the DOS CD version, both with the speech pack and both worked perfectly. :) The Win95 problem has persisted since I 1st played it on a K6.2 350 and again later on my 3ghz Pentium 4 machine. :/
Elleroth 7 months ago
@Elleroth In hindsight, perhaps there is something still left in the code that prevents it from recognizing a modern cpu that just causes it to assume it's on something slower than a 386-33..
Also, that torpedo issue in the Win95 release made blowing up K'tithrak Mang really fun! xD My solution was to pull up and hit the afterburner after launching.. One did go off right under me though which pretty much annihilated all my armor and shields. D:
Other than these 2 things it worked great!
Elleroth 7 months ago
@Elleroth - "referring to the Windows 95 re-release" Ah. Indeed one of the early complaints about gaming in Windows rather than DOS was the CPU overhead. What DID run seamlessly on a 386-33 in DOS, would chug-alug again in Windows.
NameCallingIsWeak 7 months ago
This just makes me wanna go on a classic PC game binge-fest..
jdzero 1 year ago
these games were revolutionary back when i was a kid!
Wing Commander MMO we demand it!
Emanusmell 1 year ago
wing commander tottally needs to be resurrected as an animated film.
BillyCauseyjr 1 year ago
@BillyCauseyjr It was, as a cartoon series. Wasn't really that great if you ask me. Search for it - you can find the whole series for download.
spyro303 1 year ago
the cat race was a rip off of the Kzin
kryptiea 1 year ago
@kryptiea I was waiting for someone to say that :D, Im reading the Man-Kzin wars now, definitely reminds me of the WC setting.
GothikOrk 1 year ago
Kills me, just KILLS me, that the Wing Commander movie was so utterly lame, when all the first three WC games were SO good - good plots, interesting characters. Lot of GREAT memories on all three games. And these opening cinematics were AWESOME!
I loved the way that the ancillary material, like the ship's newsletter, did a really nice job of establishing the honorable history of the Tiger's Claw, then you load up WC II and BOOM! She's GONE! Wow! Really bowled me over back in the day.
radams36 1 year ago 2
@radams36 Non-interactive entertainment is a thing of the past, and fully immersive experiences like Wing Commander are what killed it. A game "makes it" when it's a great game, not when it becomes a movie.
spyro303 1 year ago
I remember installing the game :-) 15 5 1/2 inch discs i think..and the speech pack came extra?
Bayer76 1 year ago
@Bayer76
Fucking A. Those were the days.
XKS99 1 year ago
Love the Kilrathi voices.
Aleryn27 1 year ago
Anyone notice ol' blue hair makes the same exact facial expression as Owen Wilson's character in Behind Enemy lines when he's getting chewed out by the Admiral? Check out around 2:30. I need to make a "separated at birth?" slide show.
seeingeyegod 1 year ago
I wish they would let you have to opportunity to kill Towyln along with that back stabbing piece of shit(you know who I'm talking about).
Salvatore403 1 year ago
2:57 Dr. Claw's cat in space!
SoftBank47 1 year ago
tolwin can lick my taint
WC had the most awesome copy protection ever blueprints for the ships
MrMatt29999 1 year ago
I was about 4 or 5 when I played this.. I'm 20 now.. Geez this is still soo dang epic!
mrtaekwon 1 year ago
If I'm not mistaken this game used to come on 4 floppies only ! We used to play it on a simple 486 machine with 4MB RAM. Awesome game-play. How much hours I would spend on it !
scorpie2007 1 year ago
I wonder what Kilrathi think about Earth Tigers....
KrassoSzoreny 1 year ago 23
@KrassoSzoreny Probably the same thing we think about Kilrathi apes... assuming they haven't wiped them all out ;-)
Armageddon2077 1 year ago
@Armageddon2077 Most likely a population is kept alive as up to Kilrah's destruction they were considered a delicacy by the Kilrathi.
TheDutchGhost 1 year ago
@KrassoSzoreny
That is a pretty cool question. I would guess the same thing we think about monkeys, and other lower primates.
fearyized 1 year ago
@KrassoSzoreny
Kilrathi soldier sees tiger in zoo. Song plays.
Mucha muchacha... papparapara... mucha muchacha.... papparapara!
Praxographist 1 year ago
@KrassoSzoreny About what we think of Kilrathi monkeys.
Ebonyte1 9 months ago
@KrassoSzoreny I wonder what Earthlings think about Kilrah Monkeys....
rwgosse 6 months ago
@KrassoSzoreny : Like we think about chimpanzees?
TheHasanMurat 5 months ago
@KrassoSzoreny grrr pussy's
brybish 2 weeks ago
Aww... I so miss the whole plot of WC2 "Who's the traitor really?!"
11DNA11 2 years ago
must be some 8kbps audio at the time ^^'
yaglourt 2 years ago
That guy in the white uniform reminds me of Louis' dad from family guy. XD
TheCastellan 2 years ago
this for pc? N64? what?
draccanon 2 years ago
Well, the description *does* say DOS PC.
Uejji 2 years ago
Jogging Ben told me it was the first game using 'speech' back then...
Fantomas612 2 years ago
Actually, the first game I saw that had voice output was an adventure - Sherlock Holmes. It was quite an incredible thing back then. Blew your mind. And I am pretty sure, it was quite some time before Wing Commander II. But dont ask me for the exact year.
SammySawyerT 2 years ago
@SammySawyerT
I think the first Sherlock Holmes adventure which had speech was the Case of the Serrated Scalpel. That was a good few years after WC2. The Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective video FMV games were also after WC2, iirc.
Charsiupao 2 years ago
Cheers for clarifying!
SammySawyerT 1 year ago
This is the first time I see the intro in color!
marcus10 2 years ago
you mean , it was in black-and-white? thats odd.
fgusta2new 2 years ago
@fgusta2new
Monitor which I had in that time (on my 386) was monochrome.
marcus10 2 years ago
oh , i thought the game itself . was in black and white , and the copy I'm seeing merrly a modifided version.
fgusta2new 2 years ago
Damn furry's, trying to take over everything.
Anthaon 2 years ago
"Caernarvon station, Gwynedd system"
I never realized this as a kid but man, could this be any more Welsh? I'm surprised the crew weren't wearing WRU jerseys and singing choir songs to welcome home returning fighters.
ancalites 2 years ago
I really miss this game series. I miss dangling my Sabre just outside of antimatter gun range and jumping in the rear turret while my gunsite synched my torpedo with my objective's shields. I honest and truly hate the arcade style game that hit XBox Live.
JoelCold 2 years ago
I'm looking at box right now. Deluxe Edition with special ops 1&2.. I found it in a box out in the garage full of old dos games.. I lol at the sticker saying now on IBM CD-ROM. That was a big deal back then. Well this version is from 1995..but yeah.
bottle2lip 2 years ago
My god...Did this game really look that bad? I remember playing this game to death. Amazing how far things have come. iphone games look better
photoboothnow 2 years ago
This game looked pretty fucking awesome for it's time. And yes i played it ALOT back in the day. Miss those days when games actually were more than FPS... :P
11DNA11 2 years ago
i played what i believe was a remake of the first one way back when, i just started playin this one today, you can download it for free and play it with dosbox now. msg me if your interested. its simply an amazing game and makes me angry that i missed it when i actually had a joystick for my pc! lol
Forthias 1 year ago
Lol. I agree, it's still an amazing game. The whole story in WC2 is awesome.
11DNA11 1 year ago
@11DNA11 yea, the only thing that sucks is the controls randomly stop responding at random intervals. Im slowly blundering my way through the game tho :)
Forthias 1 year ago
It's only the ace pilots that cause trouble in the game anyway. How far you've got to so far?
11DNA11 1 year ago
@11DNA11 on like the second mission because when the controls stop they STOP and i cant do anything. forcing me to alt+f4 the game and restartin the mission. its awesome so far tho, reminds me a lot of free/starlancer
Forthias 1 year ago
omg so maverick and maniac died here anyone know? If they did that sucks they were awesome characters
acp1778 2 years ago
Maverick (aka Bluehair) and Maniac were in fighters when the Tiger's Claw was destroyed.
FekLeyrTarg 2 years ago
Dude... Maverick was Christopher 'Maverick' Blair... the main character of Wing Commander games I-IV, he didn't die on the Tiger Claw!
Armageddon2077 2 years ago
Is there any way to run these games on vista?
jiggymafis 2 years ago
@jiggymafis Dosbox, google it youll get a hang of it :)
Forthias 1 year ago
My old-time favourite game. Great music + great graphics and a fine soap opera plot! I still can feel the excitement when flying the Broadsword, getting a torpedo lock on a Kilrathi cruiser, approaching it with furball fighters on your tail, getting multiple hits from the cruiser's flak fire and listening to the music which starts when your ship takes enough hits...
Epic memories! God i miss that game!
TheTaskurapu 2 years ago 2
man all I need is the quiet humming of my old 386 Dx 33 and im back in my childhood LOL.
rekkapower 2 years ago
Oh Yeah! Rockin that S##t with 8 meg of Ram and an 8bit soundblaster!
Memories......
nightmathzombieethan 2 years ago
VERY good music considering it's just in MIDI and not even General MIDI here!
night524 2 years ago
This looks like the same animation engine that did the first Xwing cutscenes...."Traitor?...I should kick your ass in the head you daffy bastards."
Ben1977820 2 years ago
For an old game, the animation isnt bad.
Ben1977820 2 years ago 2
I played this game when I was about 5.
I didn't get far because I didn't understand proper english back then.
We had no sound either. What have I missed? I must get this rom and a DOS-emulator right away.
HawaiiKnut 2 years ago
Or get the Kilrathi Saga. It has enhanced music and sounds and if you use the compartibility mode, the KS version of WC1 and 2 work fine.
But if you want to play WC3, better get the original DOS version.
FekLeyrTarg 2 years ago
Best Midi soundtrack ever.
GriggsC123 2 years ago
I remeber getting this game for the IMB ps/2 computer we had in the early 90's and being so dissapointed the computer was 2 slow to run it, the cinematics were ok. . . but game play was a stunning 2 frames per second
chrisinmainz 2 years ago
First Wing Commander game I played, and my favourite to this day.
Well, except for Privateer, which was superior in several ways.
AnonymousDiv0 2 years ago
More games need pixel art cinematics :)
TheFluffyDuck 2 years ago 18
Well, assuming they actually do it well. xD
MGlBlaze 2 years ago
@TheFluffyDuck it wasnt a choice, this was all they had in 1991...
wolfpackvisual 1 year ago
I loved this game.
Dronetek1 2 years ago 2
For some reason Blair sounds like a Hick or something to me while everyone else's voices are quite well done.
ex: "Izzz Tru Sah!"
Drogmir 2 years ago
Maybe he was supposed to sound like a hick?
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eyeSharo 2 years ago
OMG....After watching this I no longer like Wing Commander the movie.
EmperorKagato 2 years ago 2
Lol do you think this game had better acting than the movie? hahaha probably did
dealmaker007 2 years ago 3
So... you actually DID like that piece of shit before? Geeeeezus.
guiltengine85 2 years ago
my first pc game! :D
kxmode 2 years ago
cool
6083748 2 years ago
I rememebr i got almost an orgasm when i listen to that voice it was sooo coool after change from commodore c64 to 286pc lol
tinotrivino 2 years ago
Wing Commander has one of the best sci-fi stories ever. I think a TV Series should be produced but following the storiline acoording to the GAME. Season 1 could tell the storyline of Wing Commander 1 and Secret Missions 1 & 2. Season 2 would be Wing Commander 2 and Special Operations 1 & 2. The problem is to tell the story the right way we would get seasons as big as 40 episodes each.
YarisTex 2 years ago
USA Network had a cartoon series of Wing Commander but it did not do well. It did not even have 40 episodes to it, which is very sad, YarisTex.
notjustanotherface 2 years ago
HAHAHAHA Wing Commander Academy.
Revan2908 2 years ago
Yes, both games are almost one and the same.
FekLeyrTarg 2 years ago
OMG this brings me waaaaaay back
sargothi 3 years ago 2
Heh, the guy who did Blair's voice is particularly terrible. It sounds like he's reading his lines right off a cue card.
robfathah 3 years ago
kittens in space!
remmus64 3 years ago
I could have sworn Khasra was voiced by Frank Welker, but I looked it up on IMDB apparently he was just a no-name Frank Welker impersonator. :(
Timstuff 3 years ago
Well, this was one of the first PC game to use digitized voices. All voice actors were members of the staff (Paul Arden Lidberg (Khasra) and Gilbert Austin (Prince Thrakhath) were scriptwriters, Ken Demarest III (Blair) was the AI Programmer, Kirk Winterrowd (Maniac) was in the Quality Assurance, etc.)
POLE7645 3 years ago 3
Haha, this is what I'm talking about! I remember playing this game like 15 years ago, we had a 386DX33 with a 125mb HDD and it was absurd because the game took 21 megs with the speech pack, lol.
WC2 = Best video game ever. Probably the game that put Sound Blaster on the map.
I think I could probably recite every damn line from this game word for word at this point, I'm gonna have the midi songs running through my head all night now, haha..
cheesebone82 3 years ago
We had the same specs - I had problems freeing up HDD space for this game. 21 Megs was huge during those days.
I used to show off this cinematic to my cousins to show off what my computer could do haha.
reiismael 3 years ago
A classic! Tears to my eyes...
frenchydal 3 years ago 5
5/5 for having FM synthesis music!
god i wish i had wing commander 2 and 3, i only played the first game.
gyiyg996 3 years ago 2
Wow. this is game loosk AWESOME. Now I wish I had kept my old Windows 95 PC so i could play this.
I have played WC 3 4 and Prophecy, and I have never even seen what 1 and 2 look like before. Now I want to play them so badly! Such classic titles!
SandsOfTime3 3 years ago
You should be able to play them using DOSBox (Google for it) on newer versions of Windows.
Dilandau3000 3 years ago
Depending on what version of the game you have, you can just jimmy it into functionality (and playability) by setting the games to XP compatibility as well.
robfathah 3 years ago
do you think they based these charachters on resl stuff?
Romovisque 3 years ago
That game is a classic! It bring up so many memories.
Thanks for this video : )
Entomophobie 3 years ago 4
I remember this game. It was the first time I heard digital speech on a computer game - it blew me away. I just had to get a sound card for my computer, and I begged my dad to get me one.
lophilip 3 years ago 3
In my opinion 2 was the best game in the series. It completely changed the way I thought about video games.
Obviously 3 years ago 2
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This would make a great MMO game to WoW
kooodeal 3 years ago
how dare you compare Wing Commander to something that lame as WoW! This addictive online-shit is not even close to the quality of Wing Commander, Monkey Island or any of these games... when people actually tried to make a good game and not only damn money
dumbshitaward 3 years ago 30
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And you claim this is non-fantasy and non-addictive dribble?
kooodeal 3 years ago
I think that maybe the point was that these games were complete stories, rather than persistent online worlds without a set beginning and end. I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that I played WC and beat it. No-one can say the same for a game such as WoW. I don't think this makes WoW inferior, just different. But, I prefer an Ultima 6 to an Ultima Online anyday. A WC3 to a WoW.
chillyche 3 years ago
of course you can "beat" WoW as in complete all the content for a level capped character. You killed Kil'Jaeden and scored Gladiator at level 70, you definatly beat Burning Crusade.
just played through WC1 and did the first few missions of WC2 today on DosBox. Sadly WC2 isn't running stable as WC1 damn I'm having fun.
Never forget what Roberts did for gaming back then, right there with what Carmack did. Only his legacy is forgotten today because he tanked the franchise with the movie :(
Loncaros 3 years ago
kooodeal, do the world a favor and get laid. Oh, that is right, you are complaining about a video game because you can not get laid now, are you not? Douche nozzle.
notjustanotherface 2 years ago
LOL, I have to make time to play SWG and it is very hard with 2 lover girls
kooodeal 2 years ago
kooodeal, why not make a better video game yourself if you are not such a fucking xenophobic, elitist, arrogant Luddite? Oh, right, I forgot, you are a hypocrite that has no life and that can not get laid now, can you?
notjustanotherface 2 years ago
@dumbshitaward
This is when PC gaming mattered fully. Imagination was limitless and was more than simple powered armor space marines with generic backgrounds and macho BS.
Krianbane77 1 year ago 2
This is so good, and yet so unbelievably bad. I played this game for countless hours, and even then I knew the voice acting was horrible!
discolando 3 years ago
1o years in a fucking space station- fucking tolwin u sorry sack of shit- if the kilrathi can fucking build a carrier to obliterate a planet, does the cloaking device sound unreasonable?
asshole.
stringerboi 3 years ago 19
That could be the greatest thing anyone has ever said.
jad20001 3 years ago 15
hehe... YEAH !
Laurenan69 3 years ago
Wing Commander was the best SciFi series ever.
Thanks to DosBox you can revive those pearls to life again :)
Connarius 4 years ago 3
So many hours put into this game
MarkFrankJPN 4 years ago
Yep, Tolwyn was a jerk, but some time before victory, he more or less began treating the player reasonably. Btw, I actually enjoyed flying with Broadsword (big, strong, clumsy bomber). Hooray for Thrakhath (since you get to combat him in the series) ! ;)
SteppingWolf 4 years ago 2
kasara sounds like darth vader
Towlyn is sutch a jerk
shiningkingghidora 4 years ago 2
Great! Just listening to the midi brings tears to my eyes
Xerosch 4 years ago 3
For me too :) I loved this game :)
11DNA11 4 years ago
i can't believe how i remember so many details... the line deliveries... all that stuff. Crazy.
chillyche 4 years ago 2
wow, this brings back memories
obsidiantech 4 years ago
Wow, I LOVED this game !
Do you remember it took incredible 21MB (including speech pack) on your hard drive ?
Most standard hds those days had a size of about 40- 90MB !
OOOJimPanseOOO 4 years ago 3
and it took ages to install it and to get enough XMS free to play it haha!
pacosu78 4 years ago
Yeah, I think it was about 5 hours or so till it was installed! xD
lilbrothaaa 4 years ago
This game should get more recognition for the landmark that it was. The storytelling and characters in this one were just fantastic. No moment in gaming has stunned me in the same way that Spirit's sucide run did.
Stigmatainmypants 4 years ago 3
Honestly I wasn't shocked when she offed herself. The character hadn't been the same since her imprisonment (backstory) and the destruction of the Claw. Having given the char such a traditional Japanese upbringing the "kamikaze" seemed inevitable. I was 13 when I played this, Jeez I'm a nerd :-D
captaintripps6969 4 years ago
Yeah, me too, until a few years later, when Hobbes turned on me.
chillyche 4 years ago
Fantastic game, especially the story and the soundtrack!
Did you guys also transfer the wc1 save games to wc2(and the special operations 1+2)? In the end i had over 2.000 kills...!
Doncahounas 4 years ago
holy hell I'd forgotten all about K'Tithrak Mang and Prince Thrakhath and Tolwyn's always been a dick!
captaintripps6969 4 years ago
"The rebels have taken the planet..." DOS games are the best!
sammymarlo 4 years ago 2
I remember playing this on my 386sx25 with a single speed cd drive... GREAT MEMORIES!
bphutchins 4 years ago
wow 386sx25? I was rocking a 386sx16. I remember I upgraded to the 486dx25 in anticipation of Strike Commander, which showed up, what, two years late?
chillyche 3 years ago
I love the music in part 2 and part 3. I still have the Kilrathi Saga in its Boxset. Though it doesnt seem to run that well on XP anymore. Best thing to do is try and get an old PC with Windows 98 running on it to run these games well. Even play it with the Old School Saitek Cybord 3D joystick with a gameport connection. Lol
omar24884 4 years ago
Download DosBox, man. All that the Kilrathi Saga is are the dos versions of the games, with a windows front-end. You can run the .exe's for 1 and 2 using DosBox, and it'll run perfectly.
MannPower 3 years ago
That didn't work for me. It says that they can't be run in DOS mode, plus the music didn't work in Windows XP. Maybe it was just my distribution. Is it true that WC: Kilrathi Saga is free? If so, where can I get a better distribution? (Downloaded mine from Home Of The Underdogs)
phlogios 3 years ago
It's not really free, Home of the Underdogs is the best place you can get it that I know of.
Obviously 3 years ago
Well, as I said, that is where I downloaded it.
phlogios 3 years ago
This game was pretty enjoyable and better than the first one. I really loved the graphics as well and the story was very good as well.
jweinrub 4 years ago
I miss these voices ^_^
shaalis 4 years ago
The tune that starts up at 2:49 is my favorite piece of music in all the Wing Commander games.
wildkard01 4 years ago 4
Awesome capture! Brings back so many memories of one of my favorite games.
xenumonkey 4 years ago
Kitty cats...
thefollowersoflight 4 years ago 2
i´ve got the original version at home but they don´t work anymore. is there any posibility i can get it anywhere ?
MrCasssh 4 years ago