GamePro Reviews A Lost Wing Commander Game (May 27, 2005)

ChrisReid

ChrisReid

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Jonathan Stone sent in a review of one the very cool "lost" Wing Commander games that occasionally comes up in the lore. Wing Commander 2 for the Super Nintendo tops the list of ultra rare games that we'd love to get our hands on. Much like Prophecy DVD, it was fully developed back in the mid nineties but held up before release. It had nifty color comm vids and a streamlined "action" interface. The following scan is a full preview that GamePro conducted way back in May 1995.


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Unlike previous Wing Commander games, lasers and shield recharge quickly so intermediate pilots should have no problem filling space with kitty litter. The nicely crafted controls also help pile up the feline fatalities. You can spin your ship 360 degrees on a dime.
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Check out the full color Kilrathi on the VDU and the special turrent interface on the Broadsword.

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Original update published on May 27, 2005
 
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Super Nintendo games that had one line of speech during the whole game were amazing. The whole game was only 8 megs. The PC version (with limited speech) was four times that size.
 
"4 megs" = 4 megabit - 512K, right?

I'd love to get my hands on this. I wonder if the magazine folks actually played it, or if they just got a bunch of publicity stills? I really wouldn't put it past Gamepro circa 1995 to get a little creative with the facts. It seems like a prototype would have leaked out by now.
 
There's also a Nintendo Power article, which for some reason was never posted to the CIC -- there's a link to my Livejournal entry in that long update today.

I've spoken to pretty much everyone who worked on this (Billy Cain was the lead), and the game was finished and shipped off to Pony Canyon in Japan... but it never saw the light of day after that.

No one seems to have a cartridge, and it's very hard searching because a lot of sources refer to The Secret Missions as 'Wing Commander 2'. I bet there's a classic gaming community out there that could help, though, if we could get the word out.

(I also learned recently that some development was done on a similar Genesis port of WC2 -- but that one died earlier on...)
 
I was wanting that game so bad when I saw that review. I remember asking an employee at funco land (a used game retailer) if he had wing commander two for the snes. Being such a good worker he searched high and low for it and finally handed me the game. Unfortunalty it was wing commander the secret missions, somthing I already owned he just couldn't understand what I meant by wing commander 2.

Im really proud I kept those old gaming magazines everyone kept telling my to throw out. Im glad to be able to contribute something. Also thanks for the huge update and I thought I wasn't gonna get nothing good for my b-day :).
 
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