The second entry in our new weekly series, Throwback Thursday, looks at the tour de force that was Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger from 1994, starring a certain Mark Hamill and was one of the first major games to truly take advantage of the (at the time) new CD-ROM format.
Chris Roberts is a name that is now synonymous with an indie game being made with the budget of a Hollywood blockbuster, but back in the mid-90s he was known as a developer who made games that simply wanted to look like they were Hollywood blockbusters. So the key difference between something like the currently in development Star Citizen and 1994’s Wing Commander III is that the former is a space combat simulator, and the latter is a space combat simulator starring Mark Hamill.
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haha, i hear that bro
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The funny thing is when I go back and play it these days now, I have all the TRE files on a directory on disk. I've also loaded the whole lot in to a RAMdisk just for s**** and giggles - you actually get the c***pit displayed before the audio catches up.
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