Wing Commander II Genesis is Forbidden

There's a small but satisfying discovery for fans of tragically lost games: we've found a screenshot from the cancelled Wing Commander II port for the Sega Genesis! This screenshot showing a Broadsword targetting a Sartha (or a Drakhri?) and viewing a Grikath appears in a March 1993 Electronic Gaming Monthly supplement called the "1994 Video Game Preview Guide" which collects previews of games shown at that year's Las Vegas CES. And it was sponsored by Electronic Arts' EA Sports division! If you compare this Broadsword cockpit to the game you'll see it isn't a stock PC shot, it has been modified for the console version.

WING COMMANDER II
The popular PC classic is now on the Genesis. Using the revolutionary ASICS chip, the action is smooth and incredibly fast. Battle against the Kilrathi Empire for control over space.
BY ELECTRONIC ARTS

Wing Commander II for the Genesis was being developed for Electronic Arts by Looking Glass but the project fell into technical difficulties and was abandoned after missing a milestone. The work was then used by a team at Origin to develop and finish... but never release!... a port of Wing Commander II for the SNES.

The booklet also includes a listing for Super Wing Commander for the 3DO which we include here specifically because of its excellent use of the word "furbag". If you look closely you can see that the screenshot shown is also an early build: that's an original Wing Commander Hornet schematic on the right VDU!

SUPER WING COMMANDER
From the original computer versions comes the classic confrontation of man and furbag. As a member of the academy you fly several missions to earn higher ranks and better challenges.
BY ELECTRONIC ARTS

You can read the entire magazine at the Video Game Hhistory Foundation's wonderful Digital Archive.