Christy Marx has her own place in the history of game development, as seen on her Mobygames Profile. In particular, while Wing Commander 1 and 2 were being developed, she was at Sierra writing Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail and Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood...

It's good that Mark Hamill got practice talking to himself in Wing Commander Academy. Was this covered on the news page in 2017? The Joker (voiced by Mark Hamill) and The Trickster (voiced by Mark Hamill) kidnap the in-universe Mark Hamill, who uses his voice acting skills to effect his rescue...

Yes, the Hornet (and the Rapier firing lasers) can fire indefinitely, if their shields are full. Playing the DOS version in the 1990s, I asked someone why they were making such efforts to evade at full shields, and they told me it was to keep their guns recharging at the maximum rate. Thanks...

These are really good. I can hear your changes beyond instrumentation, and they are interesting changes. When I first played Wing Commander I, the barracks music sometimes made me pause and wonder if I was going to make it back from the next mission. (It took me a while to "get good," so back...

From the article: From this news post on the Wing Commander Movie rapiers: Did the Digital Anvil Team in Austin get to spend any time with one of the full-sized Rapiers? Or did they have to get someone in Luxembourg to send them all the relevant measurements and photographs? I get that people...

I think he makes a good point about the adaptive difficulty at 17:44. It could have been a good idea if it didn't adjust so rapidly. But I too had noticed that, regardless of where it started, by the end of most missions I have inflicted enough damage to push difficulty to the maximum...

Here is a cutscene of the fleet moving in Pacific Strike. I thought the sunset looked familiar, and here it is during the squadron's worst and best days in Strike Commander. Also the ending of Strike Commander: Tactical Operations. Apologies if this was all noticed long ago. I'm mostly...

I remember 1992. My family would go into our local game shop and browse boxes like these. (I never suggested buying Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe because I thought the cartoon-style labelling was too childish. I was in grade 5 or 6 at the time! I enjoyed Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, I'd...

Wow, the FMV Video Deinterlacer sounds really clever. Last time I played through Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within, I used a deinterlace patch someone made specifically for Sierra games. But it's great if DOSBox can do that to every DOS game. I'm less sold on the Checkerboard Dither Remover. I...

Thank you for posting all the videos, I'd forgotten how many extras they populated the Intrepid with. Does anyone know if that undercarriage leg prominently displayed in the middle of the set comes from a real airplane? It must have been painful keeping track of which lights on tripods were...

Talking of mental exhaustion for the Intrepid bridge crew, is the same audio alarm and flashing red light support to be running continuously through every moment between these scenes? SC 1901A (entering the Peleus system) SC 1990A (Briefing for Peleus J1) SC 2000A / SC 2000B (Loadout for Peleus...

It's not discussing flight hours, but in WC4 cutscene SC 2510A Hawk talks about how long he's been awake: For modern day fighter pilots, a lot of the exhaustion comes from the forces of manoeuvring, even while wearing a "G-Suit" to keep from blacking out. For bomber and airline pilots the limit...

Probably the helmsperson has to stay there for an entire shift (6 hours? 8 hours? 12 hours?). It seems unfortunate ergonomically that they don't get a chair. I was wondering if that was part of the "makeshift bridge," but seeing these screenshots I realise that the Vesuvius helm also has to...

Fascinating continuity, thank you for assembling it. Just think, Blair could have caused a 27th century equivalent to the disappearance of Glenn Miller. Has any of the fiction clarified: Is "Jumpscout" a title that only exists in the show-within-the-game? Or are there people in the...

I think it's worth posting the entire conversation where Jazz calls himself a "sworn Mandarin". It's in Canewdon 3-E, which is a losing path mission that is easy to miss. Sorry about the number of frames where the characters are blinking. I think this reveals quite a bit about Jazz, Minx, the...

The StarLancer Intro also features a navy making a surprise attack on a base, animated and rendered by Digital Anvil. Beyond the general theme, does it feel like any scenes there were inspired specifically by "Tora! Tora! Tora!"?

That is... embarrassing. Apart from the Wing Commander problem, there are some other issues... 1. The box they used boldly says it's the Commodore 64 version. You don't have to spend much time around old games and classic hardware to know that screenshot isn't the Commodore 64 Palette! 2. At...

That is more interesting than I expected. Did SWC and Privateer use the same missile models but render them at different resolutions? Are there any other assets shared between those two games?

In defence of those screws to hold serial and parallel cables in, they did work loose occasionally if you didn't secure them. They shouldn't have, we had been told in the 1980s to not move a computer unless we had parked the hard disk. What my '90s in a box would contain: Two 3½ inch boot...

Thank you for checking. That seemed like the most probably explanation, but it was nice to imagine, briefly. Mechanically, the WC1 Corvettes and Destroyers don't do anything except emit laser shots. Have the WC1 developers ever said if they imagined those ships to have some sort of heavier...