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TigerBlazer said:
few weeks later my family and I were visiting my grandpa’s place. He has a huge game collection, over 700 including GOG.con purchases. I saw one of the games he had was Wing Commander on PC and I asked if I could play it and he said yes. I played a bit of it and he said I could take it home with me which I immediately accepted. I played the heck out of it when I got home and a few days later he heard I was enjoying them and sent the rest of the series over to me. I played them a lot back then and even today I play them a lot, and the entire series collectively is what I consider my favorite game of all time.
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Good story... although the sentence "my grandpa got me into Wing Commander" does hurt a little. :)
 
Hey everyone, this is Michael.

I was first introduced to Wing Commander via the WC1-SM1 SNES game. At that time, I thought SM1 was a standalone game (without any prior games or backstory). Later, I came upon WC3: Heart of the Tiger. Several years after that, I started watching YouTube videos of the various WC games and learning about the story behind all of them. Namely, the Kilrathi war, the Union of Border Worlds and the Nephilim.

I had also been lurking this forum for a few years, and I decided to join today.

I have a couple of Associate degrees in Computer-Aided Drafting (CAD) and I currently work as an Engineering CAD Technician. I chose my username as a play on "Enigma Sector", because CAD is based on vectors and of course, spacecraft use vectors as well for their mission headings.

I also like the Metroid franchise. There's only one other person besides Blair who could have pushed the envelope farther with Tolwyn and that is Samus Aran. Because she is known for doing things her way and taking care of business.

Speaking of which, I think Blair could make a good C.O. for Samus, just like Adam Malkovich.

Anywho, looking forward to getting to know y'all!

-EV
 
EnigmaVector said:
I was first introduced to Wing Commander via the WC1-SM1 SNES game. At that time, I thought SM1 was a standalone game (without any prior games or backstory). Later, I came upon WC3: Heart of the Tiger. Several years after that, I started watching YouTube videos of the various WC games and learning about the story behind all of them. Namely, the Kilrathi war, the Union of Border Worlds and the Nephilim.

I had also been lurking this forum for a few years, and I decided to join today.
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Welcome! The Super Nintendo games were a very common way for people to find their way into the franchise after the main PC versions.

I love the forums here, but they're a bit slower than they were back in the day. Our Discord server is quite active though! https://discord.gg/vwKE8Tc
 
Hi everyone! I just registered for an account here after quietly reading articles for years.

I'm 38. I was introduced to Wing Commander in 1990 when I was 5 years old by my grandfather. My grandfather worked in satellite communications, and he was fascinated by both computers and flight (he had previously served in the US Air Force). So, growing up in the 90's we constantly upgraded our family PCs, and he bought almost every flight sim out there... Microsoft Flight Simulator, Falcon, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, B-17 Flying Fortress, and of course all the Wing Commander (and related) games.

The WC series was always my favorite. I took the manuals to bed each night. The novels were some of my first 'grown up' books I was allowed to read. I drew the various ships in my notebooks in school, etc. We always bought the original floppy releases, and then upgraded to the deluxe CD-ROM editions when they came out. I also love Descent, FreeSpace, and have enjoyed StarLancer and FreeLancer.

Today I have two kids of my own, and I've been working on collecting all of the Wing Commander media I can again to display on a shelf in my home. My son has spent a lot of time watching me play Privateer and Prophecy recently (when I can pull him away from Breath of the Wild). My wife and I both work in education (she in public school, me in higher education). I am currently halfway through my doctoral studies. When the kids are tucked, and the work and schoolwork is finished, I dive right back into the cockpit of whatever ship I am currently flying.

I want to thank BanditLoaf for all of his Twitter posts over the last few years which reignited the flame for me in terms of loving Wing Commander, and which led to me recollecting the series and sharing it with my kids.
 
Hello folks. 🙂One of my favorite 25th anniversary moments. I've been celebrating WingCommander since part 1. The highlight for me came when WC3 started with my favorite actor, Mark Hamill. Star Wars is my favorite movie franchise and WingCommander is my favorite game franchise. And then came my life moment. When the Star Wars Celebration came to Germany. That gave me the chance to meet Carrie Fisher and Mark. And then it was clear that both had to be like this. That means the autograph was on a Star Wars photo. And for the photo shoot I put on my WC3 shirt from the special edition.😊
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Hi, new to the forum.

My first contact with Wing Commander, was with the German Version of Wing Commander Prophecy, through the computer of a friend, 22 years ago.

It was interesting, and the FMVs were cool ( pre broadband, I wasn't aware of the FMV malaise of the early 1990's ). Some years passed, and I read in a local PC gaming magazine ( PC Master, RIP ) about the Wing Commander series, and its importance for the technical advancement of PC gaming. And here we are now, I finally scooped the whole franchise on GOG, and discovered your community.

Greetings from Greece! Άλλος πατριώτης εδώ;
 
Hi everyone! Also new. My name is Kim and I’m from Georgia, USA. I’m originally from the west coast though. I came into WC through the back door, so to speak…by watching the old Wing Commander Academy cartoon, which I was obsessed with as a preteen (teen? It blurs together). That got me into the novels which are my true WC love. Finally I actually played some of the games, but not all of them. I’m much more focused on characters, plots, etc than gameplay itself but as I rediscover my young loves in my 40s, I’m looking into what I need to do to actually play the games. So, basically, I did it all backwards. Thankfully as an adult the novels have staying power, unlike many of my childhood loves (talking to you, Cinderella).
 
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Hi everyone! Also new. My name is Kim and I’m from Georgia, USA. I’m originally from the west coast though. I came into WC through the back door, so to speak…by watching the old Wing Commander Academy cartoon, which I was obsessed with as a preteen (teen? It blurs together). That got me into the novels which are my true WC love. Finally I actually played some of the games, but not all of them. I’m much more focused on characters, plots, etc than gameplay itself but as I rediscover my young loves in my 40s, I’m looking into what I need to do to actually play the games. So, basically, I did it all backwards. Thankfully as an adult the novels have staying power, unlike many of my childhood loves (talking to you, Cinderella).
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I also live in ga. Welcome to the peach state.
 
vtheofilis said:
Hi, new to the forum.

My first contact with Wing Commander, was with the German Version of Wing Commander Prophecy, through the computer of a friend, 22 years ago.

It was interesting, and the FMVs were cool ( pre broadband, I wasn't aware of the FMV malaise of the early 1990's ). Some years passed, and I read in a local PC gaming magazine ( PC Master, RIP ) about the Wing Commander series, and its importance for the technical advancement of PC gaming. And here we are now, I finally scooped the whole franchise on GOG, and discovered your community.

Greetings from Greece! Άλλος πατριώτης εδώ;
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In Greece right now!
 
Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I'm new to this forum, but I'm very glad I came here. My name is Paul, I'm 39 years old, and I first encountered the Wing Commander series around 1994, playing WC1 on my Amiga 500. I had the original game back then, I remember it cost a fortune, but what memories! Box, instructions and an edition of "Claw marks", a fictional on-board magazine. Still, after 30 years, I remember the maximum speed of a Hornet, Rapier or Salthi. For me, the greatest charm of this game were the characters and the way the player became friends with them, competed for a place on the chalk board, gossiped in the bar. Excitement before each mission, medals, non-linearity of the plot. Besides, in no other game have I ever had the feeling of being locked in a tight ship, somewhere in outer space, fighting for my life, the feeling that I would come back alive because I had my wingman next to me. I also loved the enemy characters, the brilliant marksman, the cocky Bakhtosh, who was my favorite, and Bhurak, who when I finally shot him, I felt like a real ace. Later, I played WC1 and WC2 again, on my PC. The graphics may seem primitive by today's standards, but this game has something that many modern productions lack - it stimulates the imagination and makes you think about it, even when you don't play it, and anyway - it has been with me for 30 years. Just today, a random thought, watch on YouTube what the interior of Dralthi looks like, I found a video, the Wing Commander CIC channel and that's how I came across this forum, I usually just browse forums, I never register, but I thought that here I would be among the people whose was captivated by the same thing I was, so that's how I ended up here.
 
I think another good WC callsign for Adam Malkovich would be "Phantom".

That's kind of a play on the name "Phantoon", the boss of the Wrecked Ship in Super Metroid.
 
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