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  • this looks really cool.

  • This was the reason I bought my one and only joystick. Best game ever.

  • I destroyed two Gravis Analog Pro joysticks with this game.

    They were very good joysticks... fit very well into the hand.

    Do a google picture search and you'll see why. ;)

  • DIE REBEL SCUM

  • @TheMartialartsJedi I'm aware, I'm saying..why would anyone want to play Rogue Squadron when there's Tie Fighter and X-Wing. I grew up playing this game, along with Blake Stone, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D.

    Trust me I know, I'm just kicking these newer Lucas games.

  • @Snotnarok You are preaching to the choir dog.

  • @TangFiend Does that make it any less meaningful? Dawg? :U

  • @Snotnarok Can I get an amen?!

  • @TangFiend :U A-wing! ..Men, amen!

  • I don't know how anyone plays this Rogue Squadron crap when there's this and X-wing, these games STOMP them so badly. If they had a graphical overhaul then those games would just vanish underneath the weight of these titles.

  • This game gave me a hard-on before I was interested in girls. Now that's something.

  • I was a beast in this game when I was a kid, had a joystick and all. I loved getting medals from the emperor and whatnot. Some missions took forever...really tested my patience. hah

  • As far as I'm concerned, it's a four-way tie between FS2, Tie Fighter, Independence War and Wing Commander IV for best space sim of all time.

  • I still remember how awesome this game was back in the day =) Bring backs many sweet memories

  • That's a pretty good graphics for a DOS game...

  • This game had so much beautifull music... aah!

  • ....... . .. . . .I WANT IT

  • I Miss this game and want to play it again! But I don't know how since I don't have Dos :(

  • OK. Lucas.

    This is the game to create: Take X-Wing, Take Tie-Fighter, and add the vehicales from the prequel trilogy, and create a game with the graphics and music enhanced (but keep the tune of the music exactly the same), with the same gameplay mechanics, and re-release them as a single game (with online capabilities). Also, release it for the PS3, XBox360, and the Wii. Also, port the PC classics to the handhelds (DS and PSP).

  • @JDonahue79 we should start a campaign to do this...seriously

  • This game I played the most of every computer game I've ever played. My all time favorite!! Please bringer out a renewed version of tie fighter!

  • How big is the floppy?

  • not god

  • I loved playing this game about 15 years ago. I think we bought all the expansion packs too. If they re-released the original I'd buy it in a second. But watching this clip reminds me how important it is to use a joystick. The mouse just makes everything frustrating.

  • I like how they make the Imperial March sound more heroic... like, oh I dunno, an actual military march.

  • i played this mission A LOT. i almost took out the last 2 waves of x-wings...then slammed into the space station in error...never got that close again, was down to like 5 ships left. oh well. played this game way too much :D

  • I usually don´t approve remakes but this is one of the only games I would love to see released again with modern technology

  • More time has passed between this game and now, than between the first cinema screenings of the first Star Wars film, and this game.

  • I'm totally going to get flamed hard for this, but I liked Freespace 2 better. :D

    It's essentially the same thing, just.. more polished.

  • @Shodex4 TIE Fighter was released in 1994. Freespace 2 was released in 1999 - 5 years later. Just about any two games of similar genre will have the latter be more advanced because of home computer hardware improvements over the course of 5 years.

  • @rmenga Yes, but that doesn't ensure quality. However, in Freespace 2's case. It sure did, in my humble opinion.

  • @rmenga Yes, but that doesn't ensure quality. However, in Freespace 2's case. It sure did, in my humble opinion.

  • @rmenga I've completed TIE fighter, FS 2 and FS 1 quite recently. Freespace 2 is by far the worst game really a step backward from FS 1. It's very close between Freespace 1 and Tiefighter, but I think Tie Fighter tops it in the end!

  • Nostalgia'd hard.

  • :O! "Enter your name Pilot" same dude that does the narrating for Star Wars Rogue Squadron. Very cool.

  • Has anyone ever beat the combat mission 1 level where you face group z-95 dodeca?

  • played it through at least 3 times. I was emperor's hand and a general. I wish they made a browser version of this one. 

  • this game is siiiick

  • I bought a 300$ joystick just for this game. Programming the macros for the stick, throttle and etc was a bitch, but with my (at the time) Nanao Flexscan 19" monitor, Soundblaster AWE32, and wicked speakers, it was like being in the ship itself. My dorm room was constantly full of peeps either watching or waiting for a turn to play. The re-release of the game with multliplayer was not as good as hoped. If Lucas Arts re-releases a modern version, let's hope they do it the justice it deserves, b

  • @mackeyt1001 I wish I was pc gaming at this time... man oh man! Like, seeing those wings come off that fighter and flying past you, man... must've been hella amazing back then dude.

  • @mbe102 By today's standards, it would seem lame, but back then, the sounds of blowing up X-Wings and doing fly-by's in an interceptor coming through a pair of huge speakers was quite a rush.

  • hey i have a really random question...

    choose anyone of your favorite star wars game of all time. now assume that Geore Lucas is making a movie based on a video game from lucasarts and he's sending a vote out to the world of which game it will be.

    what game would you choose for lucas to make a movie of and y?

  • @xRyanTheDeerx knights of teh old republic i loved the story on that game

  • Oh, i loved making custom missions/maps for this (well i loved the game too). =P

  • Oh, @stickmanpwner64

    I forgot to mention... he is NOT moving :D. The throttle is at 0% and speed is at 0.

  • I bet if you loaded dos onto a modern computer, it would still not have a decent frame rate....

  • I remember this ....classic game

  • i remeber this

  • Oh, I've forgot to place a link, here is it

    people DOT inf DOT elte DOT hu PER senki PER TIEHACKZ

    I think you know what DOT and PER means...

  • I see that the guy in this video are using the old mouse controls. It's really hard to play with that if you are willing to try to go through this game these days.

    I found this game somewhere and I found myself playing with it but I felt that I can't go through the maps when you have to fight against TIE/Adv 's without a joystick so I developed a little(~500byte) asm application to upgrade the mouse based gameplay. I know that it's not perfect, but it's nearly as good as with joy!

  • God i remember this game. Between this and X-Wing i spent many hours glued to my tv blasting things.

  • i played this when i was like 4 or 5.

  • i had the french version of the game, only french text, but ONE VOICE in english ... the "enter your name pilot" ....

  • There is rumored to be a re-make in the works! I can only inagine what this game would look like if a it is done.

  • what website is this?i got play that gmae before but i forgot the website:(

  • dizzyyy

  • Thanks for posting!

  • Best midi soundtrack ever.

  • i remember this game it was so much fun but that was ages ago :P

  • This was the first Star Wars game i ever played. It was AWESOME!!! The later games like X-Wing Alliance were great too but Tie Fighter will always be special to me.

  • I LOVED this game! It actually wasn't that bad just for an old DOS game.

  • I down with the Dark Side! Tie Fighter for life! LOL

  • oh my god, i used to play this game so much, this is what made me fail 1st grade this game alone. too bad they don't come out with any good games like this anymore, all it is is FPSes, adn more FPSes, and an occasional run around killing people in a ridiculous manner game

  • such a great game!, i can tell that you are playing with a mouse

  • it will be a great idea to remake this game for the x-box 360...just imagine1

  • great game!!!!

  • ENTER YOUR NAME PILOT!

    *beepbleeep*

    woah.... nostalgia alert....

  • Amazing game with execellent story telling and realism. Game makers need to go back to type of game making and quit with all the first person shooters. It actually makes you feels like your a pilot fighter for the empire. I like how almost every button on the keyboard would do something. I guess people are too dumbed down to even enjoy a game like this anymore. Dont you agree?

  • @Stevo5000X, I used to play this for hours and hours. I still have my Collectors CD, and PC that can run it. Your right, almost every key did something. I think the game even came with a Chart.

  • This game was so amazing. I'm a bit sad that they don't make space sims like this any more. The last one I really liked was freelancer, and that was way back in 2003.

  • @MrChowderClam freelancer's shit. the last was freespace

  • I freakin loved this game but I doesn't work on newer systems - or does somebody know something about it somehow?

  • @SwornEnemy08 Look Up: DosBox it's a free emulator that lets you play old dos games on systems with Vista/Xp you DO have to be a LITTLE DOS savvy though, so try and dig those old Dos commands out of the back of your memory!

  • Sadly, I had the CD version of this, so I lose major geek points. Still a totally awesome game.

  • I wanna play this game again~~~!!

    where can I get it from~!! anyone?

  • Mmm...FM Sound Blaster music...

  • No, worse than that! ADLIB music...

    The vocals are the voices not possible on the Adlib.

  • lol, this came out long before Star Fox, The gameplay was revolutionary for its time.

  • I loved this game, still got a copy on disk!

    Wish they would re-do it on PS3 or Xbox and PC!

  • he isnt moving. hes just rotating around. the targets are in a circle around him and hes just pointing at them to shoot. this is the first training mission afterall

  • Dosent look like you actally move in this game

  • In all FPS game environments you don't technically "move" anywhere.

  • @rmenga In Soviet FPS games, environments move around YOU!

  • play it!

  • @stickmanpwner64

    Apart from ships and the odd debris, all your reference points are light years away... of course it looks like you aren't moving.

  • @stickmanpwner64 You do move, normally. He happened to pick the one mission where you're mostly immobile, just staying still and rotating around while firing at fixed targets.

    TBH he should've picked a more exciting mission to do. The Assault Gunboat ones are pretty good.

  • @stickmanpwner64

    You're in outer space...it'll never look like you move.

  • @stickmanpwner64 that's because he's shooting stationary targets you ass

  • to play under XP use - DOSBOX emulator.

  • *ahem* Starfox for the SNES *ahem*

  • Yep I had those floppy disks!! and I remember playing the PC game "7th guest"

  • I loved this game!!!! TOO BAD it will not play on win XP. I wish it would.

  • it can i have a game with the same requierments and a computer with xp service pack2 and that works fine

  • you just need the windows version

  • @lopaka707

    It does play on XP, just use Dosbox.

  • should make this for ds or soemthing

  • Yeah!!! Lucas Arts, Bring Back a new version of Tie fighter and X-wing for te new vwerions of windows and USB joysticks, but like simulators, not Rouge Squadron or Rebel Assault, we want a real starfighter simulator like the old times.

    Thank you.

  • I had a Roland MT-32 MIDI'd to my computer and loved the better sound it made instead of the sound card.

    I really wish they would remake this with updated graphics and multiplayer online support. I'd play it every night...lol!

  • I would love this as a remake, but with multiplayer support. Imagine having someone pretty good to fight along side you. Those pesky A-wings wont stand a chance

  • The midi music for this game is beyond epic :D

    The best flight-"simulator" I've ever played. Happy days..

  • Best Game Ever. I remember back then I was the only 11 year old who liked and finished this game haha. (Too Complex for my friends)

  • Mhh, today's games are indeed great in technique and all this stuff. They make fun, too. But somehow these DOS/Amiga, ... games are making more fun. They have this special feeling, you know.

  • @Koseiku That special feeling is because we were young back then..:)

  • I spent countless hours playing this game and Dark Forces.

  • holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!ahahahaha nice i played this game ahaha niiiiiice!!!!

  • I thought the simulator talked to you. It was that faggy officer that gave you all the missions

  • That's in the Collector's CD-ROM edition and the WIN95 version, not in the floppy disk version.

  • Remake Remake Remake!!!

  • Are you playing with a mouse or something?

  • Yeah, had to because I didn't have a joystick when I originally recorded it.

  • Please can u tell me where can i get this game, i played this when i was 8-years-old, and i only find the version with joystick, i cant use my mouse, please.

  • I don't know where it can be downloaded from.

  • @rmenga hey i downloaded the game but how do i play without a joystick?

  • @FranciscoTempus Load DOS mouse driver or press ESC and enable mouse?

  • Ohhh, countless hours with this game! How much did I enjoy playing for the Dark Side... Muhahahahaha (evil laugh)

  • Enter your name Pilot!

  • They should really make a MMORPG with this game or XWing vs. TieFighter as base. SWG was pure crap.

  • Best game ever!

  • When I compare new games to the feelings, that created this game, it just cannot compete

  • Nice to see the *original* disk version on here.

    I always turned space debris off. Not only was it unrealistic, but it was visually confusing in the heat of battle, especially with long-range missile attacks.

  • The guy who did the voice during training missions and stuff, was Lieutenant Gruber from the series 'Allo 'Allo.

  • wats DOS you say??? lol nasalgiaaaaaaaa

  • if you guys want to play this game on vista or XP, i'd recommend getting an application called DOSBox. It lets you play dos games with a much higher rate of compatibility. sorry if this sounds like an ad, I just think this game is so awesome, and being able to play it again is even better!

  • I'm downloading it right n ow. haven't played it in soooo over ten years!

  • I love the gouraud shading. ;)

  • This takes me back to the good old days of dos.

  • To this day, TIE Fighter remains one of the best games created. Ever. EVER. Across all genres and times.

  • Across all the galaxy!

  • I remember getting sucked into this games' bonus missions. I always knew I should just end the mission, but I couldn't help myself. Those bonus missions were freakin' hard, and I usually ended up losing my fighter at the bitter end.

  • I SO loved this game back in its heyday! So naturally, when I picked up the Star Wars d20 roleplaying game, the first campaign I designed was an Imperial campaign, with my players playing stormtroopers; one was Force sensitive and eventually became a Dark Jedi, while another retrained and became a TIE pilot. The campaign didn't last too long, but it was fun seeing stormtroopers kick ass for a change.

    I tried reinstalling TIE Fighter two years back, but Disk #3 went bad at some point. :-(

  • I miss my assault gunboat

  • I miss my TIE Interceptor. There was nothing fancy about the Interceptor (or the Bomber, my other fave), just 100% killpower. No shields or tractor beams to dink around with...just fly right up an X-Wing's tailpipe, quad-link the ion cannons, kill his shields, switch to laser and light his rebel ass on fire. Those were the days....

    I will say, though: the TIE Defender ruled the roost against those pesky little A-Wings. Tractor beam an A-Wing and pound him to dust. Speedy li'l buggers...

  • 0:09 SAM!

  • WOW I HAD THIS!! But it came with a virus on the disks! LOL

  • probably older than you are :-?

  • yep, it's barely older than i am.

  • dont di old games kid , you dont know anything about real games. So go play your stupid halo and shit , and we'll play the real games

  • i've never played this game, i play real game all the time, do i play rpgs? HELL NO. halo is a real game, it's just booring.

  • @alienjoe123 the only good thing about halo is the multiplayer

    i would like to see this game with wii controls though

  • @nibelung34343

    as would anybody who has both.

  • Definately one of the games that has kept me locked inside my room when I was teenager, while the guys when out to drink and party.

    Tie Fighter will always remain a classic..a wonderful game.

  • 2:23 That theme gives me goosebumps, sets you into the can of whoop ass mood.

  • One of my favorite games of all time.

  • X-Wing vs TIE Fighter mashed up space combats and individual technique with the audiovisual Star Wars environment. It opened the doors to the imperial hierarchy, where you could be the Emperor's reference pilot.

    All was perfect: missions design, story, gameplay and audiovisual component.

  • yep and mor e!

    i was 8 when i got that game if i'm not mistaking, 1998, it was already old and obsolete technically speaking, but in 2006 i was still enjoying so much to play it - if it wasn't that hard i could even have beat it !

  • damn nostalgic orgasm this game was so wonderful. i hope they will sometime make flight sims cool again

  • Hey this was my first PC game :) I've played it until my muscles atrofiated ;) mad stuff

  • I bought this game when it came out. This game is pure genius. I just got my old Pentium 75 PC up and running again just to play this game again. After all these years no Star Wars game made even today can match this game's depth. A true classic.

  • damn right. i love rogue leader and rogue squadron but it's so different ...

  • Check ebay guys!!

  • I spent *way* too much time playing this when I was about 10 years old... Great upload!

  • Dude... I sooooo miss playing this game. This game kicks ass!!! Spent many a nights not doing homework, because this was just so much more fun

  • FUCKIN' CLASSIC!!! I Love THIs Game!!!!

  • Dude, you own a relic of history. I remember the DOS version vividly! I first played it when I was six! I still love it!

  • I much preferred the DOS version to the Collector's CD-Rom...something about that midi music!

    Anyone ever play X Wing Alliance? That was an awesome game, not quite as good as Tie Fighter but still really engrossing. I especially like the part where you switch between the turrets and the cockpit...sweet.

  • Yeah, the midi music is beautiful, and X Wing Alliance was awesome, but Tie Fighter kicked it ass still.

  • What do you use for screen capturing?

  • DOSBox, it has an extra AVI-save function.

  • Hm. When I use it it gets laggy. ..maybe it's the resolution. I have the collectors cd edition, so I use the 640x480 resolution.....didn't even cross my mind earlier that maybe it's beacause of that....

  • Increase the framerate in DOXBox and it will (usually) kill the lag. The default rate it uses (DOSbox, not the game) is a bit on the slow side.

  • Do you play with a mouse? ...takes away a lot of the joy.

  • Had to. Getting a joystick to work thru an emulator isn't easy.

  • By using mouse + cursor keys at the same time you can turn faster.

  • True, but still doesn't beat the joystick. :)

  • I want to use the mouse and the arrow keys because i don't have a Joystick but of some reason I MUST use one.

  • They will never remake it. I doubt any of todays gamers could even handle it.

  • Spoken like a true oldskooler. salute!

  • look at the production value of this game, games today have almost none compared to games like this back in the day.Its amazing, knowing that they make more money than ever and yet 17 years ago they made better games with more production value.

  • I totally agree, it is time for a modern version of TIE-Fighter. And it would be very important to include this dynamic soundtrack. I mean the iMuse-system which was invented by Lucas Arts in 1991 if I remember it right.

  • Long ago I tried freespace - the similarities between it and tie fighter was uncanny except set in a different universe. It's like the devs used it as inspiration.

  • If you though Freespace was awesome you should try Freespace 2..hands down the best I've ever played

  • Not just bring it back...but make like...a new updated game...and I don't mean with "better graphics"....take the formula game play machanics that made tie figher so fun and build upon it....I bet in today's industry we'd have a gem of a game on our hands with the innovation development teams produce.