X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?

[Reschke]

I am about to attempt to get them to play via DOSbox and have found some installer issues with 64bit Win7 being my OS. So in a search for patches to get them to work I stumbled across this link. I hope it works because I am wanting to smoke some virtual X-wing drivers and get some medals from old Emperor Palpatine.

http://www.markusegger.at/Software/Games.aspx

Sorry about that

[Gaidin]

what link?

[Reschke]

Updated OP for link.

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ehhh after AH they are the sukage, i tried them a while back and just couldn't get into them.

[Soulyss]

I wasted many an hour over at my friends house when I was young playing X-wing and TIE Fighter, loved those games.  I think the only one I actually have here someplace is X-wing vs TIE Fighter.  May have to break it out and give it another go, thanks for the link.

[Reschke]

Yeah but its all about the story lines man, plus its a completely different type of mindset.

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Yeah but its all about the story lines man, plus its a completely different type of mindset.

that I can see....im just addicted to props

[Delirium]

I liked the Tie Fighter game as well, it was one of my all time favorites. 

[mbailey]

I liked the arcade version (full size machine) when i was a kid, Im sure i could have fed a small village with the amount of quarters i plugged into it.

[cactuskooler]

Been a long time, but I remember playing this one a lot.

[Saxman]

I liked the arcade version (full size machine) when i was a kid, Im sure i could have fed a small village with the amount of quarters i plugged into it.

That's a different game ENTIRELY.

X-wing is STILL one of the best games ever made. It's a shame LucasArts kicked X-wing: Alliance out the door before it was actually ready just to beat Episode I's release (beginning LucasArt's virtual abandonment of the Original Trilogy in the first half of 2000s) and killed any hopes of a real update to the series. I mean seriously, XWA was built on the SAME modified SWotL engine the original used way back in 1992 (by then that engine was nearly TEN YEARS OLD). It was dated, buggy, incomplete, and it SHOWED. It's kinda sad that Super Return of the Jedi on SNES had a better representation of the Battle of Endor and Death Star assault.

I'm INCREDIBLY irritated that the LucasArts "Best of Star Wars" compilations are ALL post-Episode I releases, especially when most of them SUCKED HARD.

[Wolfala]

I am about to attempt to get them to play via DOSbox and have found some installer issues with 64bit Win7 being my OS. So in a search for patches to get them to work I stumbled across this link. I hope it works because I am wanting to smoke some virtual X-wing drivers and get some medals from old Emperor Palpatine.

http://www.markusegger.at/Software/Games.aspx

Sorry about that

Lately no, but I think Tie Fighter Collectors Edition is THE BEST one made, terms of plot and voice over quality and re playability.

[Muzzy]

I would play them if I had copies.

[Reschke]

You can find them on freeware or abandonware sites. I don't remember the exact addresses but its easy to google them and I am not sure how that works but I think they have to be given that release to the general public by the publisher/developer.