They could also examine ship schematics and review mission films that can be recorded in the memory cache during the missions, and afterwards saved in disk.Ī limited edition version was made available with special packaging and a book titled The Farlander Papers, which gave the background story of Keyan Farlander, the player's character, and which also featured in the strategy guide for the game. Echoing the Alliance's hit-and-fade strategy, the majority of missions are concerned with protection, salvage, intelligence gathering and ambushing Imperial capital ships where feasible.Īpart from the tour of duty missions, players could explore the Pilot proving grounds and historical missions to train and augment their scores on each of the three available ships, X-wing, Y-wing and A-wing with six historical missions for each ship, before beginning the standard scenarios. The first two tours had twelve missions each, while the third had fourteen missions. The game was split into three tours of duty which followed on from each other, though the player was free to tackle them in any order.
The original X-Wing game was released on floppy disk in 1993.
X-wing was developed for LucasArts by the team which would later become Totally Games with the story created by Lawrence Holland and Edward Kilham.
