The Megadrive port is really nice. The voice actors they got were pretty famous and they add a lot to the flavor of the game. Still don't get "Lyle Starbuck" though.

Really nice to see people using the Privateer assets. I played Ascii sector for the first time and it opened my eyes to what Privateer could be like outside of the gameflow screens of the original game. A neat fan project would be to recreate the bases of the original game in a real-time engine...

Tachyon also isn't the same kind of game that Privateer is. It's much closer to a classic space sim where you don't actually fly around free-form, you take predefined missions more or less in order and the whole mercenary thing is basically flavor. I actually had far less trouble getting into...

There's actually quite a bit of depth to the space portions ― planetary objects not only have orbits but gravity, and people have used console hacks to fly between them. I recommend this video on the game's development. It seems like the space sections were a real pain for them and from his...

All non-FMV missions repeat, so I would assume not.

Textiles were a big trade during the Middle Ages and early modern period, and I think oriental rugs are still popular today. It's kind of an odd choice for a "bust" item; I would have chosen something like tulips.

Did anyone ever try calling that phone number?

I'll take the original manuals every time. How can you prefer the US release to this? (We really should have individual downloads for the PDFs. Having to download them, then unzip them is such a hassle compared to viewing them in-browser).

The original Wing Commander's birthday is on September 26!

I was tempted to try and make a snarky comment but before I could come up with one I saw the logo in the screenshot. That's a surprising amount of dedication for a throwaway pun. It also reminded me of a game preview I saw in a roundup of E3 1996 about Moon Golfing which as far as I know never...

Good man!

For me at least those two aren't exactly the same. I would need to buy a new system to play any new game, unless that game ran on computers well over a decade old which is not something I would expect or support. (I believe I voted for Quine 6000 because I am dedicated to truth in polling...

Despite everything that I just said I don't think that my tastes are that out of line with people ten or even twenty years younger, or at least they aren't that different from when I was twenty years younger. The big difference is just cynicism and lack of enthusiasm that keeps me from getting...

Who drew the Privateer manual art? I discovered recently that I had tagged some of it on the wiki as being by Jeff Dee, along with all of the Claw Marks art. I have no idea why, I assume that I saw his name come up about it somewhere. Some of it looks like it's the work of Glen Johnson (who is...

Wing Commander II!

Part of the reason I never tried that one was because (and I know that this is an excuse) I haven't had a modern gaming system of any kind in about a decade. It's not so much out of financial circumstances and I probably could if I really wanted. I just haven't. It's a fairly big initial...

I wish my gaming setup wasn't from 10 years ago!

I actually think it's the other way. Wing Commander is EA's chance to do something big with Mark Hamill and cash in on nostalgia, because Star Wars won't be doing that much anymore. If they were going to do something with the license they would have done it when they still had exclusivity...

More just simple population growth; also a more industrialized planet would be less economically dependent on the homeworld.

I completely blanked on World of Warcraft and EVE for some reason (the latter is bizarre because I've actually played it). I think the mid-90s 2D of UO makes me process it as far older than the other two games even though it's "only" six year older. It also might be that the other games have...