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    Impressively Tall South Korean Privateer Added to Collection (October 17, 2023)

    Fascinating. I recently sold a complete-in-the-box South Korean version of Strike Commander on eBay - to a buyer who used the Buy It Now option almost immediately after I listed it! I wonder if it was the same person...
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    Amazing This Site Is Still Running After All These Years... WOW!

    I just keep checking back in, every now and then, in hopes that the long-lost Super Nintendo version of Wing Commander 2 has finally surfaced online. When it does, I know this is going to be the place to be for all the breaking news! (Is this really my first post in over twelve years?? Wow...
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    Let's Play NES!!

    How about Maniac Mansion? Along with Ultima IV, it's a game that most of us in this community have probably played before, be it on the PC or the NES, itself. I just played it again a few months back, for the first time in a decade. In my opinion, it still holds up, and I'd love to know...
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    What Stupid Thing Did LOAF Buy on eBay Today?

    ! Whooo, System Shock! I'll be fair about the iMac, in regards to 3D gaming - it ain't great. The original run of the iMac had either 4MB or 6MB (yes, 6) of video memory, which I think is barely enough for the 'Shock. While the iMac should *slay* the three Wing Commander games, I know for a...
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    What Stupid Thing Did LOAF Buy on eBay Today?

    And apologies for any typos above - it's past my bedtime. And a half ;)
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    What Stupid Thing Did LOAF Buy on eBay Today?

    Running WC on Mac I can safely say that I've run both Wing Commander III and IV on an OS 9 Mac before, with great success! I actually have an original iMac that I use to run all my old Mac games - Myst, Riven, Diablo, Day of the Tentacle, TIE Fighter, and of course, Wing Commander III. I've...
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    BREAKING NEWS: Wing Commander IV on PSN! (December 23, 2009)

    I seriously screamed like a little girl when I saw that this was up. I had just bought a $20 PSN points card last week to get some Borderlands DLC, and was wondering what to do with the leftover $10. This, and a copy of The King of Fighters '99 should do nicely! I *highly* recommend the PS1...
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    WC SNES

    I know for a fact the takeoff was different in Secret Missions, yeah. The music was the same, but instead of seeing the pilots run down a tunnel to their ships, you instead saw your ship, from the top down, being risen up to the flight deck before launching. (I'm kind of amazed I still...
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    WC SNES

    I heard that! I remember renting the game from a local video store, along with Sim City and King of the Monsters. Not only did WC get me interested in the space combat genre, but all the games I brought home that day had some lasting impact. King of the Monsters got me interested in SNK...
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    Crazy Things You Did While Playing WC

    Well, I can't really say I've done anything *that* crazy... I know I talked to myself a lot while playing Wing Commander 1... which is odd, since it didn't have the vocal taunts of the later games to get me fired up. Still, there were instances when I'd be fighting with the arrow keys...
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    Wing commander and OS X`

    I'm afraid that, if you can't boot into OS 9, then you're out of luck. I have the exact same problem when running WC III -- in "Classic" mode in OS X, the game actually runs *very* well (and loads in about 2 seconds), but the videos are so choppy, they're almost unwatchable. My newer iMac...
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    XBox space combat sims?

    I think Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter had a few space-combat bits in it... though most of the game was a shooter of sorts.
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    WC4 MAC redistribution?

    I. myself, am a little discouraged by Apple for dropping OS 9 support in Panther. I had Jaguar for a while, on my old machine, and by booting the system into OS 9, I could play my copy of Wing Commander III flawlessly. Without the ability to boot into OS 9, which is the case with my new...
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    NFL team picks for 2004

    ....go Bears! Woo! I can dream, can't I? ^_^
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    Who to vote for? (for US President)

    I guess you're right: Tolwyn did become pretty political, I suppose :D
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    Who to vote for? (for US President)

    Wow... I think this thread kind of went off on a tangent. If anything, this political discussion has actively gotten me back to posting on the forums, so I have to be happy about that. What I'm *not* happy about is the fact that some people seem to be taking this a bit seriously. *Too*...
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    Who to vote for? (for US President)

    RedDuke, you're my hero :-D
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    Who to vote for? (for US President)

    Hm... good point, anxiety. Still, I see a certain young pilot in the confederation that holds some resemblance to our current president... *looks your way, Maniac* If I had to compare Kerry to a WC-era pilot, he certainly reminds me a lot of Bossman... and I'd certainly take "the boss"...
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    Who to vote for? (for US President)

    Hm... *dream sequence* Would it not be more effective to settle presidental elections by a VR dogfight? Just think of it: Kerry vs. Bush in the simulator, like Blair and Flash in WC III. Loser hops on the first chopper out of the White House, and the winner... well... hail to the chief...
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    Who to vote for? (for US President)

    I can see it now... Bush: "Kil...walthi? What? We need to fight terror, not control the pet population..." ...so with all our troops in the middle east and no one defending the homeland, the Kilrathi make a quick and merciless strike against the mainland... hm... I have a feeling that...
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