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I always used to pretend they had taken the Gamal Gan/Grimalkin to inflitrate Kilrah and set up the asteroid bases :p

Going to go a little off topic here, forgive me. Before the Privateer hero had a name (we now know him as Grayson Burrows) I had decided that he represented *me* much better than Bluehair/Blair ever did. The Privateer guy wasn't a conventional hero, he was just an average Joe trying to make a...

It looks like I'm rather lucky to have played the main series in order, with the exception of SM1 and SM2, which were the hardest titles to find and the last for me to play. Anyway, happy birthday - I think I've mentioned this before, but I scored Wing Commander 2 on the cheap...I traded £2.50...

Wow! That's great, and welcome - quite an introduction to rock up with not only a GJL version of the Midway, but a slick video with Wing Commander music to boot. One of the best first posts ever :)

Wow, his lack of views is tragic. He obviously puts a lot of work into his videos with the post production effects, backgrounds etc - even at times wearing costumes. Might just give him a sub because all-in-all his synopsis wasn't bad and his style far more palatable than that of some YouTubers.

I'm guessing you manually flew away from the navpoint with the listening post, I can't remember if WC2 allows you to autopilot away from enemy capships - I don't think it does so presumably you had to fly away in real time. If that's the case, there's a chance you tripped the old WC1/WC2...

@NinjaLA just seems to get better and better, I love that Raptor making the kill...and the detail of the Kilrathi pilot in his flight suit is exquisite!

I wonder if I'm alone in saying, the only reason I've never played Saga is because it lacks cockpits. No disrespect intended.

Actually, having re-read Quarto's opening arguments - the odds seem pretty strong this is probably a non-functioning cutscene Strakha after all. I wonder if it was rejected for the Auto light and 5.25" floppy drives making it look too human. Purely conjecture of course.

@Dondragmer - outstanding detective work as always! There's a guy who knows his stuff... I was going to take a stab at this and suggest it doesn't look like a fighter at all, rather a light capship cockpit - like a corvette, perhaps. It got me wondering if there were ever plans for an outing in...

That is fascinating! After the Amiga, my first PC experience of Wing Commander was on an IBM 386 (At 16mhz I think) - there was no sound card as such, only PC speaker effects, but they sounded very similar to the noises that Tandy seems to make; I wonder if they shared some DNA. Absolutely...

I still like Stingray's voiceover the most; he sounds exactly as I would expect him to.

Please, never disappear! Many happy returns.

Just beautiful - great to see that they're still airworthy too.

Glad it went well. I'd loved to have come, but on the condition that I was collected in person from my local airfield (Truro, England if you please) by one of the aforementioned B-25s and returned home in a Hellcat. The latter being one of my favourite American planes (in this part of the world...

Heh, it had to be a planet killer. Thanks.

Wow, these are great! I didn't realise how many there were. @Toast - what is that Behemoth shaped thing then?

In the last image, note the lack of shield readout on the autotarget screen on the right VDU. Much like in the PC version, if you had a low-end machine, certain features were missing. On our Amiga 600, the hand in the cockpit was static, there was no shield info and the cockpit explosions were...

A little late to this party but I'll throw in. What makes these scenes cool is that we only see them once; they're unique to the context of the missions. A lot of work clearly went into the Broadsword's mid-flight refuel, and not only does it look great but it adds to the immersion factor that...

Heh, yes...and being called "Morningstar" too, this is surely a nod to WC.