Nostalgia Break: Wing Commander Blueprint Scans

I was looking through some old paperwork and found my original Wing Commander blueprint for the Hornet fighter (as well as a copy of "Space Piston Magazine" from Space Quest IV). I started to scan them in before realizing, Hey, I bet the internet is more on the ball than I am.

Lo, and behold: a full set of fairly high-resolution scans of all four blueprints, including my all-time favorite, the Scimitar Medium-Class Fighter.

I used to love the Wing Commander series. I built an entire cockpit for myself out of a refrigerator box, wired up a few non-functional switches and placed the whole thing over my computer so I could play in darkness. I even taped a faux heads-up display to the clear face mask of my Photon helmet (a Laser Tag knock-off) and tore out the padding on the side to wire in headphones.

Get Them While They're Blue [WCNews.com]

[#1 posted by rj22 , January 10, 2008 11:46 AM]

Why, oh why do you do this to me? This pic made my heart pang-- Wing Commander is my all time favorite computer game. When I was a kid, I drew replicas of the cockpit from memory, with every single dial and readout exactly where it should be.

PS The Scimitar sucked.

[#2 posted by Stefan Jones , January 10, 2008 2:06 PM]

Wow. You were lucky. We had to pretend we had a refrigerator box when I was a kid.

And that was so we could pretend we were in the cockpit of the Space Angel, so we could only move our lips.

[#3 posted by Marshall , January 10, 2008 4:05 PM]

Oooh. I used to have these, thanks for bringing back the memories. I used to play through Wing Commander, making sure to get perfect kills on every mission. I always loved the great space pilot bar you got to hang out in between missions, too.

Computer games used to come with the best manuals and goodies. The last game I remember coming with a great manual was Fallout 1 & 2.

[#4 posted by Anonymous , January 10, 2008 5:09 PM]

Why did they have to name the two last fighters Raptor and Rapier? Couldn't they have thought of two words that didn't share 66% of their letters?

[#5 posted by strider_mt2k , January 11, 2008 6:47 AM]

You could pretend?

[#6 posted by prion , January 12, 2008 4:31 PM]

I was only a child back then but I think I actually shed a tear when I finally finished Wing Commander II. Great games. Thanks for this post.