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The holidays have already quickly come and gone, but there are a couple short days left to squeeze out some big discounts on Wing Commander games. The EA store has an excellent sale going on with Wing Commanders 1 through 4 and Privateer each going for $2.49. Meanwhile, GOG's winter sale continues with each of their eight packages containing the DOS/Windows WC games going for $2.99 a piece. These will be the lowest Wing Commander princes that we'll see... until next year, that is!

Already own the games digitally? Hit up George Oldziey's online store for some fantastic new digital WC music, or view our Cyber Tuesday rundown for more WC deals.

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We spotted a tantalizing reference to the lost console port of Wing Commander II. The March 1994 issue of German magazine Mega Fun has a short article about the upcoming Sega Virtual Processor chip... which mentions that Electronic Arts plans to use a similar chip with Wing Commander II for the Genesis. That project was cancelled over technical issues and not much is known about the special chip! The project was then completed internally for the SNES but never released!

Sega Virtual Processor

Virtual Racing will be the first MD game with a built-in additional chip (March). Sega's Virtual Processor (SVP) is also planned to be released separately in the future. The other games that use the chip will then simply be plugged in like with an import adapter. Electronic Arts is also working on a game with a co-processor: Wing Commander 2. However, the chip is not from Sega, but from ASICS. Argonaut Software,

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For next week (and the week after), the club voted to do something a little different: we're going to kick off the year by looking at two very different TV pilot movies from the 1990s. This next week will be Class of Beverly Hills, the 1990 pilot for Beverly Hills 90210 and next week will be Babylon 5's The Gathering telefilm. If you're old enough to remember 1990 then you might recall the 90210 pilot kicking off the cool, brightly colored California summer vibe often associated with the era. It'll be fun to see how it holds up! You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.

Our Wing Commander connection here is pretty odd: one of the pre-slugged high scores in the TrainSim in Wing Commander I was… "BRAIN 90210". Is this a reference to one of the multiple Brians on the core Super Wing Commander team? Or the character of Brian on 90210? We'll find out!

We also have a couple of Wing

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We only just reported on their Bearcat and CountvonSchnaps is already back with two more classic takes on Wing Commander ships... this time the Dralthi and the Krant from the original game! That's right, they've gone furball. I'll always argue in favor of two cockpits for the Krant... but these are still pretty wonderful. Enjoy!

Wing Commander II: Dralthi (DeviantArt)

Another Wing Commander design and this time a Kilrathi design! Again thanks has to go out to Shoguneagle for commissioning me to make another iconic design.

The Dralthi medium fighter has seen many iterations during its long service history. The one depicted here is an early Mk I version. Armed with two laser cannons, 2x missile hardpoints and a mine launcher.

The Dralthi can be found at all frontlines during the Kilrathi-Terran war and was the most numerous medium fighter produced during the whole war.

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Isn't it great finding Wing Commander in the wild? I recently came across a BlueSky post from Tyrel Lohr about a 3D model they've been working on of a Dorkathi!

Finally, I also started on a version of the Kilrathi Dorkathi Transport from Wing Commander 2. The fins are not 100% perfect, and I had to ad lib a few details, but I think it mostly works.

Even better, though, tt turns out Tyrel Lohr has been building entire fleets! They build 3D-printable models of sci-fi ships that they offer on Cults. They've already build a host of fighters and capital ships from Wing Commander I and II for both the Confederation and the Kilrathi. Most are completely free and the most expensive is just a few dollars. If you pick one up, we'd love to see how it prints!