Origin Systems ad from Computer + Video Games (UK, 1988)
A quick one for today! This ad shows off the personality of both the games and the company in one shot. The runes along the edges and the ankhs in […]
A quick one for today! This ad shows off the personality of both the games and the company in one shot. The runes along the edges and the ankhs in […]
It’s hard to remember what memory expansion options were like the further back we go, but peeking through the mags of the eighties has really opened my eyes on what […]
In addition to games, Sega also loved to play with hardware whether it was in the arcade or in bringing the same experience home via their consoles. Things like a […]
Five years would pass until Looking Glass Studios would tap Irrational Games on the shoulder with a proposal to work on something together. And after EA agreed to publish the […]
X-Wing Alliance wasn’t the last surprise of 1999. Volition would also roll out a sequel of their own by the end of the year in September and as with Alliance, […]
By 1998, the space combat genre was being beaten back into the ropes. Their sales were often overshadowed by titles such as id’s Quake II, Westwood Studios’ Command & Conquer […]
There’s not a whole lot that I have to say about this one. It came out April 29, 1997, and like Wing Commander: Armada, was the series’ first experiment with […]
TIE Fighter had shown how creative missions can be especially if you join up with the “bad guys”. Wing Commander III revived its tried and true formula in being the […]
By the time 1994 came around, Origin’s Wing Commander series was seen as the ace to beat when it came to depressurizing enemies with a few well placed neutron volleys. […]
Privateer wasn’t the only game to try and stage a different take on the series. Wing Commander Armada was released in mid-1994, a few months before Wing Commander III’s debut, […]