Classic PC Game Review: 'Star Wars: X-Wing Collector's Edition - CD ROM'
If you're a reader of Bantam Spectra's long-running Star Wars: X-Wing novels by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Alliston, you know the books were not only inspired by George Lucas' original Star Wars Trilogy and the subsequent Expanded Universe novels by Timothy Zahn and other authors, but also by Star Wars: X-Wing , a best-selling series of PC games from Lucasarts Games. Designed by Lawrence Holland ( Strike Fleet ) and Edward Kilham, Star Wars: X-Wing first appeared in 3.5-inch floppy disk format for DOS-based IBM PCs and compatible machines which used the Intel 386 processor. I couldn't afford it back then -- a brand new 5-disc set with manual and a copy of The Farlander Papers cost about $50 back in 1993 -- but my then-neighbor Geno Betancourt had a brand-new copy. Geno, knowing I love Star Wars and PC games, loaned me his Star Wars: X-Wing software and the manual -- he was both working and studying long hours back then, and he wasn't playing the g...