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Whereas most MMOs (such as World of Warcraft or the space-based Eve Online) rely on controls that are delayed or otherwise imprecise, Vendetta hinges on “twitch”-based input. Once the family got a PC, he fell hard for WC 1 and Tie Fighter, the Star Wars space sim that cast players as grunt-level pilots for the Empire.īergman founded Guild Software some eight years after WC 1’s release and put out his first commercial game in 2002, Vendetta Online, which is akin to a massively multiplayer WC. When he was 15, his family moved off the boat and into a house in the Wisconsin city, resulting in a difficult transition from homeschooling (his father and home school teacher held a PhD from M.I.T.) to a public high school.

WC 1 lived on as an object of nostalgia for a new generation of game designers, including John Bergman, who grew up on a sailboat and knows something about watching as worlds slide by: the Chesapeake Bay, the Caribbean, finally Milwaukee.

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Wing Commander himself, launched a new career as a movie producer (though he’s gotten back into games with the hugely ambitious Star Citizen project, a runaway success on Kickstarter). Freespace 2 enjoyed the genre’s last mainstream success in 1999, then keeping the space sim alive fell largely to player-made mods. Other titles carried the Wing Commander name, but none recaptured the dramatic panache of WC 1 and 2. This game released in 1990 even had strong, believable female characters. We have to defeat those Kilrathi bastards, because a future ruled by ruthless lion men is unacceptable. If your wingman died during a mission, the commander guy would look crestfallen yet so tough. Your actions mattered, first in the debriefings delivered by your commanding officer guy and then in the branching campaign that even affected what ships you got to fly. The friendly NPCs fighting alongside you had personalities that weren’t cartoonish or repellent. Wing Commander 1 got too many things right.