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I remember being forced to buy my first soundcard [and thus pushing me on my career as computer geek] to play X -Wing because the hand-me -down PC from a freind didn't have any. Oh and I think it had a monochrome orange typeface monitor which of course I had to beg for a "real" monitor from him, too.
Ive gone the same route as the rest of you with the rest of the Star wars universe of games, even bought a sega cd add-on to play that console's Star wars game, which was such a letdown .  I was so psyched for it , I think I finished it in 2 hours.  sad

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I went through a good portion of the games.  Remember Empire Strikes back for the Atari 2600!!! What a pain it was taking down a walker with those old JoySticks. HA! You had to shoot them in the "eye sockets" or command bridge of the walkers.

I had "Super Star Wars" and "Return of the Jedi" for the Super Nintendo.  I had "The Empire Strikes Back" for the Nintendo.  I also had an X-wing game for the Sony Playstation but for the life of me I can't remember the name.. It was a double disc thingy.  For PC I had/have "X-Wing Aliance", "Tie-Fighter" and "Tie-Fighter and X-wing"... I had "Force Commander", "Episode 1 Racer" (Pod Racing), "Battlefront", "Battlefront 2", "Empire at War"..

I missed out on Jedi Outcast 1 and 2.. I have Jedi Academy 2 but not the first one.  I'm not too into the Jedi playing thing.  I'm more into FPS stuff.

I love the old games... it's the only reason I even keep the old consoles around, so I can still play all the games I've owned.  Newer games blow away the old games with graphics, but I'm more into the gameplay of it.

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what is jedi academy 2.

the order is.
1)dark forces
2)Dark forces 2: jedi knight
3)jedi outcast
4)jedi academy

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I think my first was the TIE Fighter demo. Poor graphics compared to those of the Collector's CD-ROM I would later acquire. You would fly a TIE Fighter and take out a container yard protected by corvettes with your wingmen and a bunch of friendly corvettes, for then to be blown apart by Rogue Squadron's A-Wings, which carried missiles and for some reason were not attacked by the corvettes.

The demo and the full game had the funnies exploit I've ever seen in any game to date: if a ship hit another ship, no matter the circumstances, the victim would return fire. No exceptions. And the game sometimes had enemy corvettes appear in formation, side by side, fairly close together. I'd fly in between them, they'd both shoot at me and hit each others, and they would proceed to punish each others incompetence by a hail of fire that usually left both vessels destroyed or at least easy pickings for me or other friendly ships big_smile .

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Safe-Keeper wrote:

I think my first was the TIE Fighter demo. Poor graphics compared to those of the Collector's CD-ROM I would later acquire. You would fly a TIE Fighter and take out a container yard protected by corvettes with your wingmen and a bunch of friendly corvettes, for then to be blown apart by Rogue Squadron's A-Wings, which carried missiles and for some reason were not attacked by the corvettes.

The demo and the full game had the funnies exploit I've ever seen in any game to date: if a ship hit another ship, no matter the circumstances, the victim would return fire. No exceptions. And the game sometimes had enemy corvettes appear in formation, side by side, fairly close together. I'd fly in between them, they'd both shoot at me and hit each others, and they would proceed to punish each others incompetence by a hail of fire that usually left both vessels destroyed or at least easy pickings for me or other friendly ships big_smile .

nice exploit lol

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My first SW game was X-wing then X-Wing vs Tie fighter, Dark Forces , Jedi Knight 1 and 2 and Pod Racer all on a PC. The one I liked the most was X-Wing then Dark Forces 1, until First Strike that is.

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Tie fighter , and then X-wing were pioneer games in their own right .
Besides being a vector-graphic display, the number of shots being fired in all directions by all the majillion fighters flying around, showed a depth of programming they avoid these days.
Remember how you had to either have the system set-up to boot in EMS mode or have a boot floppy that booted the computer into EMS mode. ( expanded memory mode )
That allowed a certain complexity with the programming that was lost when they stopped using it. They never dreamed processors would become so fast so quick, the need for intricate and expensive EMS programs gave way to faster machines running junkier and cheaper programming.

X-wing vs Tie fighter is the windows equivalent written to run in normal XMS ( extended memory )
windows environment.  If you compare the two generations, theres a lot more objects seen in the distance all flying around and shooting each other in the older EMS version than in Xwing vs tie fighter version.
Newer stuff only  looks better , it dont play better , lol.

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