A crapard bell 386 PC. No CD-ROM, had a 5.25 and 3.5 inch disk drives, and no sound card. I got one game when I got the PC, a sherlock-holmes type adventure game. Fun, but not really action-packed.
Then I got a game called 'Wing Commander'. I fell in love. It made me a gamer. Fast, action-packed, with a good storyline. I played #1, and was happy. I played #2, and was ecstatic. More ships, better graphics, et cetera.
But the best game I ever played... was Privateer. At first I hated it. I didn't understand. Why weren't they giving me my missions? But once I learned how things went, I loved it even more. I could PICK my missions. I could customise my ship to be the way I wanted it to be. I had to earn the money, work my way up from the bottom, but once I had the money, I could do whatever I needed to. I was the best of the best.
Wing Commander 3 and 4 were great! better graphics, same gameplay as 1 and 2. But privateer 2 was a disappointment. They took all the best elements out and tried to make up for it with more ships/guns, and put in way too many movies. it sucked.
Prophecy was great, though. They took WC, added just enough movies to work, had tons of great gameplay, the ships were balanced, and I loved it.
Now the series is dead, and I'm sad. I'd gladly pay 50 bucks a game if they were re-released with the same storyline, same missions, but better graphics and sounds... and until then, I'll just fantasize about playing the older games on my new PC (Which won't happen, DOS games don't like Windows XP.)
He always told me never to buy a Mac 
I remember playing games like Battlechess and Theatre of war, along with Myst and some of the King's Quest games.
Transport Tycoon is great.
This thread is about Wing Commander. Nothing else.
WING COMMANDER!
IT IS GOOD GAME! WING COMMANDER RULES ALL!
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Kinanik had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Wing Commander was fun.
Descent was funner.
Yuck! Descent ...
Wing Commander!
One of the best (PC)game series ever made!
No, wait ... THE BEST! 
Privateer was great, but I still see it as a rehash of Space Rogue, set in the WC universe. (Space Rogue was Origin's first space simulation.)
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Azeroth had this to say about John Romero:
Wing Commander Armada was fun too
Yes, but only slightly better than Wing Commander Academy, which was the weakest title in the WC series ...
I have the entire collection
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Armada was fun, but it was generally just instead of being given a story in a sector and having command go wherever and give you the missions, in armada you go wherever and get in fights. Sorta humdrum, IMO.
Privateer 1 was awesome. TOTALLY open ended, the mission generator was awesome, and the ships rocked.
Privateer 2 was okay. The ships were good, but I hated the new mission generator and trading system. I wanna trade in my own damn ship, not in a hired cargo ship.
WC 1-4 were incredible. Awesome games, awesome graphics for their time. Storylines were TOP NOTCH. They are the standard by which other space games are judged by me. PERIOD.
Prophecy was the way the game should have ended. The final fight was just as dramatic as it should have been. Blair finally dying, after all he went through, was just as I'd hoped, he died a hero just like he lived a hero.
But now I crave MORE WING COMMANDER!
Best. Series. Ever.
The Excaliber is my favourite starfighter in any game that I can think of!
Click the picture.
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However, my favorite ship EVER... would probably be the Epee from WC2 Just because I could take on a hundred ships in it and not get scratched. Great mix of power and speed
You have to respect a guy with a ship named "The Aluminum Buzzard."
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Don't feel bad my first computer was a Tandy 100..now there is a piece of crap.
C64 here.
Awww ...
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Khyron had this to say about Robocop:
Yes, the excalibur was indeed, a r0xx0r ship
Anyone remembers the reconaissance mission from WC4 where you had to scout some nebula that jammed your sensors.
Suddenly there was a cut scene showing two Excaliburs heading for you in your crappy border worlds fighter and you thought: "Game Over man, game over.".
But then you wasted the Excals like some lousy Dralthis ...
Damn, what I was dissapointed.
Out of service ancient fighters beating the confeds finest ... easily. 
Stick the best pilot in a crappy ship and he'll clean house like nobody's business.
WC was good, but the AI tended more towards 'swarm and destroy' than 'outfly and outshoot'.
Even the pirate Talons from the first mission (WC4) were harder to beat ... [ 02-27-2002: Message edited by: Tarquinn ]
For its time, the graphics were superb.
Real time cutscenes.
EXCEPTIONAL guns, INCREDIBLE gameplay. Choosing your wingmate for the first time? Being able to show up that cocky bastard Flash? Awww yeahhh.
