Star Wars: TIE Fighter
LucasArts’ X-Wing series of space flight combat sim games is not so much well-loved as feverishly adored, and it’s likely everyone’s favorite is dictated by whichever one they played first. But in hindsight, with a fair dash of nostalgia, we’ve picked TIE Fighter as the example to herald here. The 1994 game did extraordinary things with the extremely limited, pre-3D graphics of the time, and more importantly, had you play as the baddies.
1995’s CD-ROM release then boosted this with SVGA graphics, voiced cutscenes, and a whole new expansion, letting players defeat those pesky Rebel whingebags in proper pew-pew-pew space battles. The whole thing was made playable on modern machines when it was re-released on GOG in 2014, meaning you can see for yourself why this stands as an all-time classic.
