i love you i dont think you have an idea of how much i love you
@RaidriarTheRadicalKing5 жыл бұрын
seriously have my kids
@user-yv2cz8oj1k4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Jedi talk to me, report for Imperial screening.
@antoniomares81004 жыл бұрын
Lego starwars is more civilized though
@VindicatorJones7 жыл бұрын
I wish.. I WISH.. they would bring these games back with modern day graphics. I spent so much time playing these games back in the 90's
@insertcognomen7 жыл бұрын
i would love a tie fighter remastered
@IRMentat7 жыл бұрын
Vindicator Jones TBH they would try to update/change things or make them multi-format (like elite dangerous with its gimped rudder controls and lack of directed content) and ruin it. Still, a remaster would be lovely.
@alejandrorvilla75717 жыл бұрын
X3 Albion Prelude with Star Wars mod comes very close to it. It bring back good memories.
@dat5817 жыл бұрын
Vindicator Jones X-Wing Alliance is the most recent game and fan websites have provided much improved graphics to take advantage of more modern computers.
@insertcognomen7 жыл бұрын
TBH the missions aren't too varied. You do the same thing over and over. shoot down enemy fighters. intercept bombs before they hit your capital ships. thats the gist. yes there's more but it so fun to play and it told an interesting story. they don't have to remaster tie fighter. make a new game. it would be a cash cow still. they could even milk it by making each battle paid dlc to continue the story (like subscription mmo style). just give us a SW space combat sim
@JohnMichaelson7 жыл бұрын
I spent SO MANY hours playing this and X-Wing back in the day. It was such an advance over the Wing Commander games and they were amazing in themselves.
7 жыл бұрын
Me too. And this exposition of these games was really well presented.
@MarkHoltze7 жыл бұрын
Ya I played WC as well, but it always felt second part to the Lucas Arts games. Lucas Arts back then though was like top PC game dog.
@insertcognomen7 жыл бұрын
this was one of the first games i played on my first pc. still the best game ever
@Guhonter7 жыл бұрын
At first I wasn't even sure if I did play it, it's been more than 20 years now, but the more I watched and and the way Scott commented; yeah I remembered and therefore: thanks for reminding me :)
@Schmidtelpunkt7 жыл бұрын
Fighting against vector based objects was so much more impressive than having to fly towards those pixel graphics of WC in their poor resolution.
@froycardenas5 жыл бұрын
X-wing and Tie fighter games made me feel I was actually part of the battles from the movie... full of joy in the 90's... I remember the hardest, trickiest mission of all: The Trench
@AdvocatusDiaboliFin7 жыл бұрын
"Alright, Gamma 1, show us how a great pilot clears a minefield!" That's the mission that made TIE Fighter the best SW game for me.
@Ulyssestnt4 жыл бұрын
"enough of this charade, Gamma 2 destroy gamma 1"
@maciej92804 жыл бұрын
@@Ulyssestnt omg that was one of the best turns in the game, shame it couldn't be explored as an alternative path :)
@vanlal06064 жыл бұрын
In an Interceptor without any shields. I remember that mission well.
@Cleanpea4 жыл бұрын
One of the best missions, for sure. The feeling of handling the Interceptor against traitor TIE Advanced... What a slap in the face that was and also made the Interceptor my fave TIE
@juangonzalez98487 жыл бұрын
My god, this game was nuts. Trying to take out nebulon b frigates with a simple tie was so damn fun.
@willlauzon3744 Жыл бұрын
This is where the fun begins!
@MilitaryHistoryVisualized7 жыл бұрын
yeah, one of the best games ever.
@elmalloc3 жыл бұрын
thank you
@KevinPowell7 жыл бұрын
Sooooo many good memories of this game!
@elusive_mg7 жыл бұрын
Kevin Powell thx so I know what to expect haha
@Sinister80s6 жыл бұрын
Me: builds a very powerful gaming pc Also me: plays this game.
@razorback204 жыл бұрын
Don't feel guilty. That video also made me want to relaunch that game on my old Win 95 PC. Ah, nostalgia.
@WillLauzon10 ай бұрын
My computer is a dinosaur so this is probably the best it can do. And I am not dissapointed.
@Arkalius807 жыл бұрын
Yeah I played the hell out of X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, they were definitely badass games. I also loved how you could record your battles and then go and watch them back, observing from any perspective you liked. That was pretty awesome.
@Graknorke7 жыл бұрын
I feel like demo recordings are one of those great things that's just been lost to time. CS:GO has good support for them but beside that you don't really see it around much.
@willlauzon3744 Жыл бұрын
It's funny because when you watch them you realize how many close calls you had never even seen and you can see the chaos of the battle that you as a pilot only have a vague understanding of in it's entirety.
@TheMarct7074 жыл бұрын
Shortly before Tie Fighter came I recall an article that touched on the vulnerability of the Tie's and how that might carry over from X-Wing. LucasArts, from the get go, had no intention of tweaking the Tie's. They were expendable and you had to deal with that. Lucas Arts was solid in the early-mid 90's. They created some of the most engaging games I have played.
@MrGabilonia5 жыл бұрын
Designer: So how many epic missions do you want in the storyline? Lucasarts: *Yes*
@dronespace5 жыл бұрын
Lol
@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын
76 campaign missions and 28 Combat Chamber sims isn't exactly deserving of a Mathematician's Answer.
@221b7 жыл бұрын
The "Training Simulator" was just an arcadey tunnel thing, but the Combat Chamber provided a series of very well-made guided tutorials that I'd highly recommend to anyone starting out with this game.
@bungholio817 жыл бұрын
Title says it all, fucking awesome game. No space combat game to date can best this.
@d2factotum7 жыл бұрын
Agreed, but Freespace 2 comes close to matching it, IMHO. In fact, Freespace 2 is arguably a better game, but it obviously doesn't have the cachet of being set in the Star Wars universe...
@MichaelOnines7 жыл бұрын
Freespace 2 was amazing. Its source code was released and the graphics engine has been updated to modern hardware.
@leavy7 жыл бұрын
bungholio81 came to say I completely agree with the title. It was actually TIE Fighter that made me interested in Star Wars at the late late age of 13
@Finchy1877 жыл бұрын
Freelancer*
@rennaaa66677 жыл бұрын
Star Lancer
@lyravega65777 жыл бұрын
This is the first game I played with a joystick on a PC :D I had this old Microsoft Sidewinder 3D or something, one of the ancient ones. Lovely game, thanks for covering it Mr. Manley! :D
@Maverick8t884 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love Tie Fighter! This is the first time we got a glimpse of Coruscant. Absolutely a huge geek out moment!
@turtle27207 жыл бұрын
10:49 Marek Steele :) and my box included a shortstory. Aww the memories... flying between a Mon Cal Cruiser and a Star Destroyer, broadsiding eachother - in a nimble TIE Fighter.
@commandert57 жыл бұрын
10:30 The original Battlefront 2 had you as an Imperial, even having you enact Order 66.
@ryanrising22377 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I don't understand how even the least competent journalists could miss that.
@det.bullock44617 жыл бұрын
A movie or literature journalist can go to an academia where they teach them of the past stuff, a game journalist is mostly a random gamer that became a journalist because he could write coherent sentences, it's obvious that every single one of them has a bunch of holes in their background.
@igornoga53627 жыл бұрын
Watch those wirst rockets!
@danyheatleyall-star36777 жыл бұрын
Just like the simulations
@ThunderBird204967 жыл бұрын
We captured a command post
@charleshodge69207 жыл бұрын
First game I ever beat as a child... I saved all pennies as a to buy a flight stick. Thank you Scott for bringing back memories of a simpler time.
@ronaldhof36544 жыл бұрын
I really loved this game. Great storyline and challenging missions. Warms my heart to see this again on KZbin, thanks for that 😎😊
@LarryGarfieldCrell7 жыл бұрын
I loved this game, especially with how incredibly long it was. The CD version had over 100 missions, had you flying with Darth Vader as your wing man before transferring to be Thrawn's top pilot, etc. But yes, they did make a game of that caliber. X-Wing Alliance in 1997(8?) Had an even better engine, solid story, and multiplayer. I would dearly love an updated modern Star Wars flight game of this calibre. Just port the original games to a modern engine and I'd be so so happy.
@MsOpportunity68 Жыл бұрын
I remember the briefing advising you not to try to give any orders to Darth Vader.
@warriorlink86124 жыл бұрын
This game and the original Dark Forces PC game helped define Star Wars for me. I played Tie Fighter so much, I had the CD Rom version, and mapped all controls to a joystick. Thanks for posting!
@SubitusNex7 жыл бұрын
One of my all time favourites. Love the series. Wish they would reboot the series without making it lame. (Hard thing to do today...)
@MikaelLevoniemi7 жыл бұрын
Not making it lame would mean simplification to achieve best sales figures. After all it's owned by Disney. :/
@edjack19932 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. I spent many a happy hour playing this on my old MESH PC in my flat in Glasgow back in the day. At the time, it looked stunning. And the sound really made it.
@ferenc-x7p7 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this on "very easy" first, since it was one of my first computer games and one of the first simulators and I had no clue what I was doing (keyboard vs console controllers like the SNES). . I liked it so much, that I replayed it over and over and finally finished it (once) on hard mode. In that era of gaming, when they wrote "hard", it was effing hard! (Of course also to mention, playing Falcon 4.0 later, which was so technical and down to detail, 99% of current gamers would give up before taking off the air strip! ) I remember X-wing was even harder, even on medium difficulty, which I got tired replaying over and over, I kept getting blown out of the sky..or space to be correct!
@trippylummox2747 жыл бұрын
A trip down memory lane! I love this game, and played sooo many hours of it. Thanks Scott!
@LordRunty7 жыл бұрын
Playing as the bad guys? You've been listening to too much rebel propaganda. I really miss the music in the 94/95 version, the 98 version should have kept the original adaptive music. Also the Tie Interceptor is tougher than the Tie Fighter, it can take a couple of extra shots.
@KuraIthys7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I remember from X-wing. Sure they were being used for target practice, but interceptors were just plain better in every way. They could take about 5-6 hits instead of 3-4, had 4 laser cannons instead of 2, turned faster, and moved much faster. Better in every way. Still not much of a match for an X-wing though. On the other hand, could cause serious problems to a Y-wing.
@geoffreybanks18397 жыл бұрын
Yes, I had the original (+expansion? I remember 13 battles, up to the resolution of the Vorknyx Project) on floppy and loved the way the music would seamlessly rise and fall as things happened, with tracks being merged into eachother magically. I'm sure Lucas Arts had a technology with a funny name that did that. When I got the CD version a few years later, it seemed to me that it just cues up the next audio track from the disk, complete with a short pause while it goes hunting for it. It was not quite the same atmosphere as a result.
@brianmiller10777 жыл бұрын
it was called iMuse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE and you're right, it flowed with the action of the game so nicely
@davidvaughan55127 жыл бұрын
The system was called iMuse I believe
@det.bullock44617 жыл бұрын
Geoffrey Banks The first CD version (which is bundled in the steam and gog.com digital releases) still had iMuse, they just added more voiceovers, all the expansions and bumped the resolution to 640x480 (graphics otherwise unchanged but the higher resolution is a great improvement already), what you are referring to is the windows version that came out later packed in with the same version of X-wing. At the time cd audio streaming was the hottest thing and every game had it so when they made the second updated re-release they decided to keep it with the times, though it was also a limit of the X-wing vs Tie Fighter engine used for the windows version. X-wing alliance later brought back iMuse but using mp3 snippets of music instead of MIDI music.
@2010challengerRT7 жыл бұрын
The idea of allocating shields and power to different systems on your ship is cool. It adds a bit of strategy to it. That's something I'd like to see in more Star Wars games
@djestrela25 жыл бұрын
this game brought the most feeling of being there. The sequence of interconnected missions was so well done!
@Daehawk7 жыл бұрын
I loved this game so much. Still my favorite. I own the original 3.5", the 3.5" addon and the CD-ROM collectors edition. This game is still great today but back in 1994 it was beyond amazing. I loaded it up that day in 94 and was blown away. The sounds were SPOT ON.
@jethrocp7 жыл бұрын
I picked this game up at a garage sale back in the 90's. Loved it an played it until it was no longer compatible with my system. I was so happy to have the digital game released.
@lovehawks28147 жыл бұрын
I remember when my older brother bought the original 5 1.44" floppy disk original. That and the .ini file he had to write by hand in order to boot it from DOS. I actually got my first joystick specifically to better do those tunnel training. It was also my first exposure to what was then the Extended Universe and then Vice Admiral Thrawn. So much of my early computer game experiences were from this game and Wing Commander: Privateer. Good memories. Also, really happy the TIE Defender made the jump from legends to the EU proper. Loved that thing.
@Falltangle7 жыл бұрын
Played X Wing Alliance to death, such a fantastic series of games!
@DFASixMarbles7 жыл бұрын
Now THAT is the best Star Wars game to date. Wasted so much of my life setting up custom dogfights and huge battles.
@Kissamiess7 жыл бұрын
XWA was the best of the series technically. TIE Fighter just had the best plot. Edit: It also has a graphics update mod and it's possible to get headtracking to work through mouselook so it's the most enjoyable game to revisit.
@XeniKobalt7 жыл бұрын
There's also a mod that converts TIE Fighter's campaign into XWA, so you can play through it in the new engine. Highly recommend.
@insertcognomen7 жыл бұрын
the later games over did the capital ships. they became impossible to destroy
@MichaelMedlock7 жыл бұрын
Dan V I never had any issues...
@immolateus4 жыл бұрын
Love this game, decided to search KZbin for Tie Fighter Game videos! One of the best games I had ever played. Looking forward to see if the new StarWars Squadrons reignites my love for spaceflight sims. I really liked the tactical aspect of the game, energy/shield management and I liked the secret order of the empire stuff too. Thanks for the video.
@Nosphorus857 жыл бұрын
This game taught me the meaning of "precarious". A mission involving an Interdicter who's "situation is precarious indeed!" Memories!
@TheVoerwoodCavalryMan4 жыл бұрын
As some one born in the early 2000s, I love this game and everything about it and still own this game now and is definitely my favourite game ever!
@copperhamster7 жыл бұрын
Okay, how many people spent hours practicing to do the ultimate 'omfg' optional goal: Sweeping the big minefield in a Tie Interceptor. *Raises Hand*
@Sapfu1007 жыл бұрын
Oh thank The Emperor for that. There's at least two of us :D
@MpowerdAPE7 жыл бұрын
And one more. yea, I played every mission too the hilt. good memories.
@UnintentionalSubmarine7 жыл бұрын
Actually... one of the last few optional tasks I had was killing the three Corellian Corvettes in the stock Tie Fighter in one of the initial missions (might even be the first one). You could survive one hit, but not two. It took me a hell of time to get.
@timothymendoza92357 жыл бұрын
I got all the optional missions completed, even for kicks one time I took down a Star Destroyer in a TIE Fighter.(one of the missions the enemy one did not jump out for a really long time). was not a mission goal, just for kicks. had to deal with them keep telling me to return to base.
@SexycuteStudios7 жыл бұрын
Did it all. Got many pats on the back from the Emperor. And this fancy tattoo......
@duramirez4 жыл бұрын
This game has been a major part of my youth and i have the original 1.44MB floppy version in the box with all the books and manuals. I love this game and i have beat the crap out of it, but i was never able to reach the same amount of commendations as that legendary pilot they have to show you all the medals you can get :D
@commanderosis4356 жыл бұрын
Oh how I loved this game. This series and wing Commander and MechWarrior were some of the best games ever made. Kids these days have no idea how shallow and lame their games are.
@willlauzon3744 Жыл бұрын
I loved how you had to know what all the buttons did and how you actually felt like a pilot by manipulating your machine to its fullest.
@UnintentionalSubmarine7 жыл бұрын
FAK YEAH! No bloody doubt about that choice. I utterly loved the Tie Interceptor. It was thrilling to fly due to it's fragility, but it had enough firepower to make it really fun offensively. Once the shields got common, the game lost a bit of the scare factor.
@AAhmou7 жыл бұрын
I prefer to face corvettes with a gunboat shuttle, Tricky but can be done.
@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын
It's a shame the T/I only showed up for 4 campaign missions, compared to the 6 T/F missions and 7 T/B missions.
@calinculianu7 жыл бұрын
Scott! I played this game back in 1994 too! I was in high school. As I saw you playing it all my old reflexes with the game came back and I felt like hitting S to balance shields along with you! I agree -- this game was one of the best Star Wars space combat sims ever made. It's a shame noone has made a game this fun. All the focus now is on fancy graphics and shaders but gameplay suffers a lot these days. This is way more fun than for example No Man's Sky. Anyway great video! Thank you very much for this trip down memory lane!
@Chobittsu7 жыл бұрын
Oh good, I wasn't the only one who grew up on this classic
@motionpablo7 жыл бұрын
As a kid I once played this game while wearing a full Darth Vader costume. The thin line between fantasy and reality became even thinner on that day
@_viper2c_5627 жыл бұрын
I played all the Xwing games, and was part of the slicing community right before Xwing Alliance came out. I played all three games to death, and I still have them now. Had some great times with my friends online making new missions and ships. ( I never considered Xwing vs Tie Fighter in the same league as the story driven games.)
@PcKaffe7 жыл бұрын
I love when you cover older games like this. I played this for my first time last year and had a blast!
@Aurasmae7 жыл бұрын
This game was made 6 years before I was born, and games made since then have been 10x worse. I love it!
@foxhallww3114 жыл бұрын
man, the flight engine for this game was insane for it's time. I remember I played this game all the way through on all difficulties several times
@dictatorputski50537 жыл бұрын
"see how I have no shields on my back?, That's not gonna work well for me, is it?" *BOOM*
@javsousa7 жыл бұрын
Hey Scott, nice video and what great memories this brought back! Do you know / remember that shortly afterwards there was a Tie-Fighter Mission Editor which allowed you to create your own campaign, with fully customized missions, objectives, briefings (both normal and emperor secret objectives). The editor was very powerful, allowing you to create scripted events and in-mission story moments. Tie-Fighter was really one of my all-time favorite games and truly deserves the title of best Star Wars game of all time. X-Wing Alliance was the successor (after a satisfactory X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter) and that too was an awesome game ... but never really captured the perfection that was Tie-Fighter.
@Forcemaster20007 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a re-imagining of this game for modern PC's! Loved playing this back in the day.
@michaelmartin90227 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this at a friend's house, but didn't have a clue what I was doing. I must have loaded somebody's save game, but I "managed to get" a bomber but my brother was "stuck with" a regular fighter. To this day I thought the ships were just assigned randomly. Also the old version assessed your mission performance by blacking out objectives you didn't complete, I strained to read the black text and then imagined they were telling me I had completed all the objectives. All I remember doing in the actual game was loading a heavy missile on a bomber (I think it only carried one), getting a Y-Wing in my sights more by luck than judgement, and blowing it the hell away.
@r1a1p1AllenPogue4 жыл бұрын
This game cost me so much study time when I was in college. Definitely one of the most playable games I've ever played, and it was generally superior to the X-Wing series.
@ShadowZone7 жыл бұрын
Truly a milestone in the space fighter genre. AND: The first time Thrawn was introduced in an official Star Wars product outside the Timothy Zahn trilogy - not sure if in the main game or in an expansion though.
@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын
He was already there in the main game, right up to the very game's intro.
@benjaminmacdonald76567 жыл бұрын
This game would move VR headsets
@OzarkGenerations7 жыл бұрын
Scott, this brings back memories. I was 11 when this game came out. X-wing and TIE-fighter were my first joystick game. Probably why I'm a hopeless sci-fi game addict!
@CaptTerrific7 жыл бұрын
AS IF YOU WEREN'T AWESOME ENOUGH, you also know which SW game is best SW game :D
@TehJumpingJawa7 жыл бұрын
So many fond memories of playing these games on my dx2/66. Shame we have nothing nowadays that delivers the same story heavy arcade/simulation experience.
@deathdealer4257 жыл бұрын
All I want is a DCS like simulator, for these spacecraft.
@monmonstartv51595 жыл бұрын
try out Rogue System
@WilliamBrothers5 жыл бұрын
Someone made a SW mod in dcs
@Padtedesco4 жыл бұрын
got a news for you budy...
@bryanoswalt29127 жыл бұрын
X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and X-Wing VS TIE Fighter were three of my favorite games EVER. I think X-Wing VS TIE Fighter was one of the first online multiplayer games I ever played. I had played plenty of LAN games, but I think that was my first one to play against people NOT in the same building with me. lol
@Rekaert7 жыл бұрын
Ahh, those were the days. I remember having a 7gig hard drive and thinking, "I'll never fill that, lol!" What a naive young man.
@user-yv2cz8oj1k4 жыл бұрын
Yes but it's mainly full now of graphics files and piss poor inefficient programming.
@SuLokify4 жыл бұрын
I played this game on a 486 with 32mb of RAM and two hard drives totaling less than 1gb of storage.
@AlexeiVoronin4 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, the 10 MB Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis game was HUGE, considering our hard drive's total capacity was 20-30 MB :D
@andresilvasophisma4 жыл бұрын
Finished this game yesterday for the 3rd time in my life and it's awesome. With accelerated graphics it's even better.
@out4space7 жыл бұрын
Loved playing the TIE Defender, though it was really OP vs the Rebel Crafts, which where only in numbers a thread... Loved the game, soundtrack was superb (yes I was lucky to have a Soundblaster 16 !!!), also the cutscenes were awesome. Though had to upgrade my machine from 4 to 8 MB (!), which cost like ~150 EUR at that time (adjusted!).
@gersontakada7 жыл бұрын
out4space Oh yeah, Tie Defenders were the best. The most OP stuff ever :D
@AlexJones-ue1ll7 жыл бұрын
nah, most OP was the Missle Boat. It could shoot down TIE Defenders like they where nothing :)
@JonasRosenven7 жыл бұрын
The Missile boat was an incredible killing machine. It's strange seeing him using the cannons in this video. It was all about the missiles and the outrageous speed it could reach when laser power was directed to the engines. If I remember correctly it could even out run concussion missiles. Such a monster.
@AlexJones-ue1ll7 жыл бұрын
I think the Missle Boat could reach 450 speedunites with SLAM (or whatever they where called^^), the Adv Concussion Missle launched at 280 units, but got faster during its flight but I think the Missle Boat could indeed outrun a missle, for a time until the energy run out. having up to 80 missles was insane, tho :D. Or 20 heavy rockets and 40 missles and it could kill an entire fleet, especially with a reload (exploit)
@out4space7 жыл бұрын
That too! The Missile Boat was just OP^2 ;)
@TheFluffyDuck7 жыл бұрын
This was such a unique game, as it shows the other side, not as a predictable set up to defect to the rebels, but as a genuine attempt to show the rebel’s as terrorists and the empire as a force for peace. Freaking amazing!
@Seal93827 жыл бұрын
I love this game. This is definitely one of the best games ever!!
@hackel1377 жыл бұрын
Wow, that really brought me back to my childhood! I actually remember downloading this game through a Gopher Usenet gateway. It took days on what I'm guessing was my first 2400 bps modem. Definitely was an amazing game!
@ChildofIcarus7 жыл бұрын
There was like 5,432,221 discs for this game. And my computer didn't have the memory for it! I was so bummed.
@qjavdu6 жыл бұрын
@4:35 it's said that there are "three series of missions and a fourth that comes with the expansion" and that's wrong. There are four battles (of 5-7 missions each) to begin with, and three more unlocked as you progress in the main game. Expansions added more battles afterwards, bringing the total to thirteen. Executor and a lot of the fighters seen in the opening were added in the cd-rom version to the game. Original version opening had less stuff flying around, though the script was the same. The game engine, however, was able to handle an amazing amount of objects without a hitch.
@Pynaegan7 жыл бұрын
*LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE*!
@EpicureMammon4 жыл бұрын
I wiiiish the Win95 version of this game had the option to use the iMuse system. The MIDI music in the DOS version was so good especially with good hardware. It reacted to what was happening in game and could even work as an audio cue. For example, there is a minor-key rendition of the rebel theme when rebel ships show up. So if you're in a hairball and miss the message at the bottom of the screen, you'll here that music to let you know that they've arrived. Same is true if you lose a member of your flight group, objectives have been met, etc., and all the different snippets blended together to sound like a movie score that's being written on the fly. Put that together with the story (which they really should make into one of the "A Star Wars Story" movies), and it's a really fabulous game. I have the Win95 version, but I always go back to the CD ROM DOS version with slightly upgraded graphics (upgraded over the floppy version), but, yeah, the texturemapped version looks fantastic, but with a basic "dumb" music system, it's just not the same :)
@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын
The Collector's CD-ROM Edition *IS* the '95 version. The inferior version you're referring to is the '98 Windows edition.
@EpicureMammon Жыл бұрын
@@michaelandreipalon359 It's not. I have the actual box right here. "Collector's CD-ROM" right on it. It's a DOS version with graphics that are upgraded from the floppy version and includes all of the expansions. It came out just about the same time as Win95 and makes no reference to any Windows on the box at all. It does have a trouble shooting guide included after the fact that addresses problems running it in Win95 by saying that it's a DOS game. Don't correct me on Tie Fighter hehe :D
@TheJacobshapiro7 жыл бұрын
Legends Thrawn>Canon Thrawn
@Hotchpotchsoup7 жыл бұрын
Legends Chiss > Canon Chiss
@rebelstrategist6 жыл бұрын
There is only EU Thrawn.
@youngbutretro42285 жыл бұрын
@@rebelstrategist no Thrawn is canon in rebels
@rebelstrategist5 жыл бұрын
@@youngbutretro4228 I will reiterate : there is only EU Thrawn. Any other media on Thrawn is fan-fiction at best.
@AlexeiVoronin4 жыл бұрын
@@rebelstrategist Not trying to be nitpicky, but the old EU was, technically, fan fiction as well, as it wasn't made by Lucas.
@karlsangree4 жыл бұрын
TIE Fighter was my favorite! I had every reward tattoo offered. I can still remember following Darth Vader to the edge of the galaxy at the end of the game.
@ronin47-ThorstenFrank7 жыл бұрын
Man, was this game great. Was this game well designed. I wish they would still do games like this today. A pity the subsequent X-Wing games didn´t have this standard anymore.
@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын
I don't know, X-Wing Alliance at the very least leaned more on the TF formula.
@GladiusAustalis7 жыл бұрын
I loved this game back in the day. It was so much more fun than X-wing, simply because it was so easy to dogfight the rebels. Even with no shields you ran circles around the x-wings. Too much fun. A shame nothing like this exists today.
@ahedasukks7 жыл бұрын
7:27 "Very fast y-wing" ?!
@danielpassigmailcom4 жыл бұрын
He meant A-Wing
@r.24994 жыл бұрын
This absorbing game was simply awesome on every level. I enjoyed flying for the Empire so much that after all these years I still put a pair of Imperial Cogs on all my motorcycle helmets ;-)
@sbvera137 жыл бұрын
If anyone likes this I suggest checking out Freespace 2, the pinnacle of the sapce dogfight genre. It's even been modernized by modders since the original source code was released when the original studio folded. google for freespace open
@PrivateLsd7 жыл бұрын
Scott S. It's available on GOG.com too, that's where I got my copy.
@PowerThirteen7 жыл бұрын
Scott S. Also, keep tabs on the Fate of the Galaxy conversion for Freespace 2. It hasn't been released yet, but it looks amazing.
@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын
Would also recommend Tachyon: The Fringe.
@beeDUB757 жыл бұрын
could not agree more - I loved this game so much back in the day. Proper storyline dominated with in depth single player missions / campaign. The problem with games today is they rely too much on online gameplay. This usually means playing against people who have no lives other than the said game and consequently cannot seriously complete against them (for those that do have lives). This game remade with today's graphics would be epic. And yes have a couple of online scenarios, or co-ops with friends, but keep the original missions and story line. Thanks for the vid.
@DamianReloaded7 жыл бұрын
Shut up 15 MB were like 5 (compressed) floppy disks! ^_^
@s4ss1n7 жыл бұрын
5.25 floppys held about 1.2 mb, when my cousin bought it there were 8 discs and took about an hour to install, this was before the extra content so it wasnt 15mb in total either. just over a year later cd rom became available which was higher capacity but im not sure how much more
@DamianReloaded7 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure the floppy version didn't have dialogs audio either
@Mostlyharmless19857 жыл бұрын
Closer to 7. Double density floppies were about 1 meg
@s4ss1n7 жыл бұрын
your probably right, my memorys not what it used to be ;) im quite possibly a dos version of a human :p
@s4ss1n7 жыл бұрын
and no it did not have dialog, but it never stopped us playing it ;)
@bowwing3337 жыл бұрын
This game changed the direction of my life. Completely. (also INCREDIBLY stoked for the Assault Gunboat in X-Wing Miniatures) Now here's to the Missile Boat!
@TheZdrack7 жыл бұрын
I would love to see remakes of the xwing and tie fighter games
@hrafnsteiner7 жыл бұрын
What a nostalgia trip! What i wouldn't give for a remake of this game
@Youda000087 жыл бұрын
Elegant game, from a more civilized age.
@AerikForager7 жыл бұрын
My brothers and I had the floppy disk install set, with the code phrases in the manual. I still have the disks, manual, and joystick we used. Lovely games, both this and X-Wing. Thank you for showing this!
@EzriAran7 жыл бұрын
This was my favorite game growing up. I remember playing X-wing originally on Dos. Then this came out and it had voice, it was amazing. - By the way, Thanks for letting me know the Gunboat's coming out for X-wing Miniatures. I've wanted a model of it so long!
I'll never forget the first time I got given the keys to an Imperial super-weapon, the TIE Defender. When I found out they were made canon in the Rebels show I almost choked.
@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын
And then feel sorely disappointed to see it not having ion cannons, not have a shockingly smaller speed limit, and the absence of a Maarek Stele/Baron Fel kind of ace pilot skillfully flying the bad girls, correct?
@omnimous697 жыл бұрын
Yes! I have been saying the same thing as the title of this video for 22 years! I have never played a better space combat game. I remember when you installed the original version from the disks it asked you what type of RAM you wanted to use?! WHAT?! ROFL
@myvideosetc.82717 жыл бұрын
I remember that the first mission can transform into a inclredible huge scale battle if you try to do all secondary and bonus objectives.
@polygondon7 жыл бұрын
Last time I was this early, it was a trap.
@Electricfox7 жыл бұрын
We cannot repel expediency of this magnitude!
@OverlordZephyros7 жыл бұрын
We saw it. All craft, prepare to retreat.
@danrg267 жыл бұрын
I dont get the joke
@NoNameAtAll27 жыл бұрын
danrg26 Search "it's a trap"
@FrumpleJames7 жыл бұрын
MoodayTV okay, I literally laughed out loud
@ericsorensen46917 жыл бұрын
Whenever you got a missile warning, I kept shouting at the video, "Switch your shields to the rear!" Oh man, loved this game. The Tie Defender was the most OP'd thing ever, but lots of fun!
@michaelandreipalon359 Жыл бұрын
Either do that, or skillfully jink them and initiate laser intercepts.
@michaelstasyszyn88577 жыл бұрын
Wait... Scott knows X Wing Minis?!?! Awesome! I played WAAAAY to much of these games back in the day.
@Frankenstein0777 жыл бұрын
_Back in the day?!_ The game came out in 2012... You consider five years to be _back in the day?_ Bloody Millennials... :-)
@michaelstasyszyn88577 жыл бұрын
Frankenstein077 I meant TIE Fighter not X Wing being old. Haha
@Frankenstein0777 жыл бұрын
That makes a little more sense. Might want to work on your writing skills a little bit, though. :-)
@MrLotengo7 жыл бұрын
He did a whole video on it recently
@oldmilk32697 жыл бұрын
I had Xwing vs Tie fighter as a kid. I still have it today plus the 2 expansions. Loved them then and I love them now
@paristeta54837 жыл бұрын
They don´t do Tie Fighter or Wing Commander games anymore, i always wanted a mix of both.
@221b7 жыл бұрын
Freespace 2 is still being maintained by the community, with the base game being regularly upgraded with better graphics and assets and with a wide range of new campaign mods.
@weldonwin7 жыл бұрын
There's Star Citizen when it eventually comes out, since it is very much the grandchild of the Wing Commander series
@out4space7 жыл бұрын
Or X3 Terran Conflict.. which can be modded heavily...
@det.bullock44617 жыл бұрын
Paris Teta Paris Teta freespace has still an active modding community, they also made a free standalone Wing Commander game with the Freespace engine called Wing Commander Saga that while doesn't have fancy cd cutscenes manages to have greatly improved gameplay compared to the original games (the story runs parallel to Wing Commander 3).
@terpcj7 жыл бұрын
I remember playing it back in the day on Hard. There were like two or three missions that were all but impossible to accomplish. The force had to be with you or you'd never see the end of the game. I wish they'd re-issue the game with no changes to the engine other than updated graphics + audio. It was a lot of fun.
@diegowushu7 жыл бұрын
Woah there Scott. You were not "the bad guy". You were a soldier fighting terrorists. Not every german soldier was a nazi.
@JohnyG297 жыл бұрын
MelancholicThug They were on the wrong side however.
@hans_____7 жыл бұрын
Being drafted, they had no choice.
@insertcognomen7 жыл бұрын
MelancholicThug drafties don't get inducted to the emperor's hand
@Linerunner997 жыл бұрын
Only a drooling moron could be in the Imperial Army and think he was on the right side. The Empire being shit stains on the ass of the galaxy was so apparent you'd literally have to be brain dead to not see it.
@greedy447 жыл бұрын
That's true if you've served in the navy.
@Palp797 жыл бұрын
There is actually a total of 13 battles and the game had two expansions, Defender of the Empire and Enemies of the Empire. Although you can only see four on the beginning selection screen until you complete them.
@Spawn-7 жыл бұрын
Hey Scott, what's about the first KotoR?
@charlesleseau7 жыл бұрын
I'd pick KotoR too, or one of the Dark Forces games as sort of equally fun, but if someone asked me what Scott would pick, I would have said this or X-wing for sure. :)
@cw87 жыл бұрын
Prefer KOTOR2, even so TIE Fighter is still the best SW game.
@vanlal06067 жыл бұрын
I concur with you 100%. This, in its day, was the best (most playable) space sim/ flight sim I ever played. Sidenote: My 20yo self finished this game on Hard playing with a mouse and keyboard. Joysticks were things to dream of back then.
@jackmcslay7 жыл бұрын
7:35 I think you mean A-Wing, Y-Wings are not fast
@Chirp2967 жыл бұрын
Only played a few missions of these games back in the day (my older brothers game and computer). It was great to see them in detail. Thanks for the great video and details on an old memory. :)