Laurent Pelliser has sent us images of a French Wing Commander III magazine review. It's pretty nice - showing off characters and ships and going into a lot of detail about how the game works. The scans come from the January 1995 issue of Generation 4. Magnifique!
Wing Commander was my first non-educational computer game. It came out way back in 1990. The box says that the game is a special promotional release, but the only thing special about this version was that it was the second printing. The manual was made to be like a magazine for the carrier you were stationed on in the game. It also came with some neat blueprints for the various ships you could fly in the game, and they contained many of the answers for some of the evil copy protection questions you were asked. If you needed 5¼ inch floppies there was a form you could send in. The game also came with a game catalog that I’ve long since lost.Read the entire article here.
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