It was complex. If your going to purchase the classic you should get the real thing, imuse sound and all.

Previous Star Wars games—with the notable exception of the 1983 arcade game—were mostly mediocre movie tie-ins for the Atari 2600, Game Boy, NES, and other consoles.X-Wing and especially TIE Fighter, which made heavy use of Zahn's Grand Admiral Thrawn character, arrived at an opportune time.As Larry's team continued to grow, and testers from LucasArts began helping with the project, he moved the operation to a rental house on Redwood Road in Fairfax, California, a "yippie sixties throwback" of a town in Marin County, north of San Francisco.

It was about: How can we advance this experience? "I think that I had built up enough trust and legitimacy that I didn't have to do a big dog-and-pony show, a big pitch, or a big design document ahead of time to convince them that Star Wars was going to be in safe hands—that I could actually build an X-wing game," Larry reflects.

Once Project: Space Station was out the door, Holland found himself working in a small skunkworks lab made up of about 10 employees and contractors. Tie Fighter Suite - Music from Star Wars Tie Fighter - YouTube © Special thanks to Colin J. for providing the ELS gauges. "The Air Wing pitch resulted in not one but three projects, spanning from '88 to '92: Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. So many of the other games had all these fighters, whether it was X-wings or Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.Thank you for signing up to PC Gamer. There was nothing sexy about it; it looked like a family car. Thrawn, meanwhile, hunts for an Admiral Zaarin, traitor to the Empire (one of the team's original characters), with appearances by the iconic Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine at key moments throughout.

That was crazy," he says. We had Star Wars models everywhere; we had posters. "A lot of people grew a lot working on these products; they learned a ton," says Robin Holland. "The quantity of interactive, animated cutscenes we'd like to add had to be limited. By then Lucasfilm Games had become LucasArts and outgrown its home at the ranch.

It had a campaign and a custom mission builder.

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Some nights the security guard would shine a flashlight into his room, waking him at four a.m. on the office couch.After Luftwaffe hit shelves, Holland began developing a series of expansion disks that added additional planes. But the mag In 1981, Larry Holland wound up in the Bay Area, hoping to pursue a doctorate at UC Berkeley while working a job on the side. TIE Fighter’s use of iMUSE was more action-oriented. Because, when it comes down to it, X-Wing was a really hard game.

"That success continued with sequels like the multiplayer-focused X-Wing vs. Whole other sets of systems were already fleshed out and evolved, so that really reduced the risk. "Then he adds the crucial bit. ""There were some really creative people there," Robin says. In combat, pilots had to rely on the TIE/Ln's maneuverability to avoid damage. "I went over to Lucas knowing that the companies were quite similar, in that they were niche products for male audiences," she says. "My first game along those lines was called Project: Space Station, which I did in 1985. The amount of digitized voice, sound effects had to be scaled back so we could shoehorn it onto five disks. Timothy Zahn's "Thrawn trilogy," beginning with the 1991 novel Heir to the Empire, sparked a massive resurgence of interest in Star Wars—as did Dark Empire, the comic-book sequel from Dark Horse.

""X-Wing's sort of like the expected and obvious, and I think we executed it, for the time, pretty damn well," Larry says. People were caring about it. "I always called it an air-combat game as opposed to a simulation, meaning that it wasn't about recreating all of the aerodynamics and the gadgetry or gauges of a particular plane, but more to create the To achieve this, he devoured countless books, diagrams, documents, films, and even gun-camera footage captured by World War II fighter pilots—the very same footage George Lucas famously used to devise the dogfighting sequences in 1977's Star Wars. He simply lived and slept in his office at LucasArts, where he was still a third-party contractor, as much as possible. He'd grown up reading science-fiction novels by Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein; his cultural touchstones were the Vietnam-era counterculture, Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the Apollo 11 moon landing.

One of the things that was happening was the transition from floppy to CD. Along with a pair of mission designers, David Wessman and David Maxwell ("The two Daves," naturally), Larry arranged an overall narrative arc, a cast of characters, and the plot beats that needed to occur in each of the game's charming animated cinematics.