Jacob
Rear Admiral
Hello all,
I'm new here at this board as you can probably tell, and most places I've been it's more or less customary for one to start up a thread when you're new. However, I don't see any here, which either means that it's not, or there haven't been many new members. I'm not sure of which, but if this kind of thread isn't something that you all do, I'm sorry, and please get rid of the thread.
I started following the Wing Commander series when I found the two Peter Telep novels at this last-chance book place called "Book Sale", where I got the two books for around $2 each. I still have yet to read them, as I was busy with high school (and now college), but I did find the movie over at Suncoast for $6 on DVD, so I figured "What the hell", and bought it. I popped it in my parent's DVD player (the DVD drive on my computer has been broken since...November), and sat wide-eyed in front of the screen for the next two hours.
DAMN!
Kickass movie, if I do say so myself. The Wing Commander community on Livejournal.com doesn't think that highly of it (which is the reason I didn't join, it would look rather bad for me to come in there "Hey, I loved that movie!" to a group of people who obviously hated it), but I thought it was pretty decent. Pity that it didn't do well in the box office.
Anywho, because of this movie, I've started to get into the video games. I have Wing Commander: Prophecy for the GBA, Wing Commander: Academy for PC (doesn't work because it's DOS, ARGH!), and I just bought Wing Commander: Prophecy for PC this evening up on eBay. I hope to continue buying the games and learning more about this cool video game series.
I suppose that's all, since I figure I shouldn't bother going into my likes, dislikes, etc. So I pretty much hope to be posting here for a while, and come to learn more about the Wing Commander series.
I'm new here at this board as you can probably tell, and most places I've been it's more or less customary for one to start up a thread when you're new. However, I don't see any here, which either means that it's not, or there haven't been many new members. I'm not sure of which, but if this kind of thread isn't something that you all do, I'm sorry, and please get rid of the thread.
I started following the Wing Commander series when I found the two Peter Telep novels at this last-chance book place called "Book Sale", where I got the two books for around $2 each. I still have yet to read them, as I was busy with high school (and now college), but I did find the movie over at Suncoast for $6 on DVD, so I figured "What the hell", and bought it. I popped it in my parent's DVD player (the DVD drive on my computer has been broken since...November), and sat wide-eyed in front of the screen for the next two hours.
DAMN!
Kickass movie, if I do say so myself. The Wing Commander community on Livejournal.com doesn't think that highly of it (which is the reason I didn't join, it would look rather bad for me to come in there "Hey, I loved that movie!" to a group of people who obviously hated it), but I thought it was pretty decent. Pity that it didn't do well in the box office.
Anywho, because of this movie, I've started to get into the video games. I have Wing Commander: Prophecy for the GBA, Wing Commander: Academy for PC (doesn't work because it's DOS, ARGH!), and I just bought Wing Commander: Prophecy for PC this evening up on eBay. I hope to continue buying the games and learning more about this cool video game series.
I suppose that's all, since I figure I shouldn't bother going into my likes, dislikes, etc. So I pretty much hope to be posting here for a while, and come to learn more about the Wing Commander series.