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Title: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: Reschke on August 15, 2011, 10:09:01 AM
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
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: Gaidin on August 15, 2011, 10:31:20 AM
what link?
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: Reschke on August 15, 2011, 10:34:40 AM
Updated OP for link.
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: ink on August 15, 2011, 11:42:55 AM
ehhh after AH they are the sukage, i tried them a while back and just couldn't get into them.
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: Soulyss on August 15, 2011, 12:52:11 PM
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. :)
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: Reschke on August 15, 2011, 12:52:36 PM
Yeah but its all about the story lines man, plus its a completely different type of mindset.
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: ink on August 15, 2011, 02:32:39 PM
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 :cry
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: Delirium on August 15, 2011, 04:08:55 PM
I liked the Tie Fighter game as well, it was one of my all time favorites.  :aok
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: mbailey on August 15, 2011, 04:11:25 PM
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.
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: cactuskooler on August 15, 2011, 04:52:58 PM
Been a long time, but I remember playing this one a lot.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KG21QA3QL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: Saxman on August 15, 2011, 10:44:01 PM
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.
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: Wolfala on August 15, 2011, 11:06:05 PM
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.
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: Muzzy on August 15, 2011, 11:44:15 PM
I would play them if I had copies.
Title: Re: X-Wing and Tie Fighter games....anyone else play them lately?
Post by: Reschke on August 16, 2011, 09:45:14 AM
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.