Description
Conversion of Atari Games' first-person shoot 'em up based around the original Star Wars film. You take on the role of Luke Skywalker, aiming to destroy the Death Star - which, as any fan knows, involves attacking the 'weak spot' near the exhaust. To even get to this you have to pass swarms of TIE Fighters. Complete the game and it loops back around at ever-increasing difficulty. The game uses vector graphics, which allow lots of action at high speed on comparatively slow systems.
Alternate Titles
- "Star Wars: The Arcade Game" -- Title used for most console versions
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Trivia
My hazy memory recalls: The front of the box contained an embedded LED that blinked slowly, like once every 3 seconds. I believe the LED was part of R2D2's head poking out of the top of the X-Wing.
The programmer of X-Wing was very clever and resourceful: Not only did he successfully port X-Wing to the PC, but he used so many optimizations that it ran quite acceptably on a stock 4.77mHz 8088 PC. (The game is in 3D, and has many points and hidden-surface-removal wireframe objects on the screen at one time.)
Resourceful programmer tricks #2: The function keys serve as multiple different
functional boss-keys, information about the programmer, and other neat little functions -- way above and beyond a typical boss-key. Poke around the keyboard while the game is running and see what you find!
