"Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom" HD Intro (1080p) 

So Biff Tannen and Luke Skywalker walk into a bar...

This game was embarrassingly important to my youth. I ran a Wing Commander RPG club on AOL.

Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, Mark Hamill & Tom Wilson. ...... what an excellent company actors. Instead of superstars they picked real characters and people who can act. Great job!

This series was the one that made me realize people were starting to take games seriously as a form of entertainment. In these 13 minutes, we had Luke Skywalker, Biff Tannen, Malcolm McDowell, Sallah from the Indiana Jones movies, movie level acting, drama and intrigue...it started here.

8:36 to 9:02. I do not know why, but this brief interaction was always profound for me. An old vet, down on his luck, goes to another to ask for a drink, but is instead given money for a meal that would do him good. Later, that down on his luck vet is met once more and for that meal he gives Blair some vital intel. It's karma.

Maniac: "Hello, anybody home?!" Blair: cuts Maniac's arm with a lightsaber.

11:34 "Of course, I would've backed you up if he tried anything...Oh you se-- is he gone? COME ON! *squints to check the guy has gone* come on pal...." One of Maniac's funniest scenes ;)

I miss it... those were the days man...

5:24 In the original cutscenes, there's a guy that screams "Yeah Tolwyn, he's got the answers!" I always got a kick out of hearing it. You can't hear him at all in these HD videos. These HD versions also makes it very obvious that the actors overdubbed their lines later. The original interlaced videos kind of hid that fact.

One of my favorite games. First time using CDs :-) This game was 6! cd's Omg, so much video.

"It's renegade pirates I tell you!" that guy made me crack up. Let Eden speak damn you!

10:09: "Of course I'm still flying. What else is there?" This line both perfectly fits Maniac's never-ending pursuit of glory and excitement, and also makes him out to be kind of tragic. He's spent basically his entire life flying and fighting for the Confederation. He knows literally nothing else and can't conceive a different kind of life. To make it worse, his personality also makes him ironically a poor fit for long-term military service. In the novelization they talk about how he keeps getting passed over for promotion due to his hotheadedness and glory-seeking tendencies making him seem poorly-suited for command, though he grows into the role once forced into it while fighting with the Border Worlds Militia. But the novels are beta canon, and Wing Commander Prophecy mostly ignored that character development, though they do give him another go at the "growing into the responsibilities of command" character arc a bit in that game.

I loved this game as a kid.

Back when games were good....

This came bundled with the Creative PC-DVD encore DX3, good ol times...

Remember when PC games were "PC Games" and not "modular console games"? I miss the PC gaming 90's.

Classic intro. So much better now that it's not interlaced :)

Candidate for G.O.A.T game intro right here, blew me away when I played it in 1996

'he´s THE man!' 6:47

Swindled...I miss the pixel art and wing...person Spirit with branching missions. We need a fan remake of WCI and II.

3:40 that scream...

Is that a Star Trek pinball machine when Blair walks into that bar!!!???😎😎😎

Brings back memories... I also congratulate you on making a superb! quality video... This has to be by far the best script quality video of wing commander I've see on youtube... leads and bounds in quality of everything else... nice job! now if only you can make the full movie with all the other cutscenes eh? :D

Got me good, top comment haha. "Biff Tanen and Luke Skywalker walk into a bar...turned it into a star wars cantina."

Wing Commander and Fallout are my two favorite video game franchises of all time. Both have developed such a rich back story that there's so much to draw from. Origin and Chris Roberts nailed it with this franchise. It was the Star Wars of the PC game industry. While the plot is much different, there's some influence from Star Wars and it's a good thing. But I felt that it also drew from elements of Star Trek, which can be seen in Privateer. Unfortunately, they wrecked the movie by not sticking to the canon of the story. They also bombed on the casting of the characters. Saffron Burrows played a good Angel but Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell were perfect for Christopher Blair and Tolwyn respectively, among other cast members in the game. I don't know why they didn't cast many of these actors in the movie. It's sad that the movie had to die with the franchise.

Ahhhh... The good old Wing Commander days!

You should check out the blooper reel for these cutscenes.

When Maniac talked about fertilizer, Blair should have answered "better walking over it rather than being covered in manure!"

Loved this game ....

One of best games ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best game ever made!!

Seether and the Black Lance = Pure Evil in “WC4”.

Wing Commander III - IV Legends !!!

what are you luke...a chicken!?

Guy had the NERVE to put a knife to Blair?! THE Mark Hamill?! Must’ve had a death wish! Blair would’ve had him crying like a kid with a skinned knee if he tried to carry out his proposed threat!

11:38 "Oh yeh--se--is he gone? COME ON *squints*...come on, pal?" HAHAHAHAH, funniest scene in the game.

such an interesting start of a video game. real slick.. I wonder if star citizen will be the same?

Just waiting for squadron 42 now

It made me sad that you can't mimic Seether's afterburner mine maneuver in game. I spent hours trying to ignite a mine with my afterburners.

They're coming back soon.

2:54 - *screensaver pops up*

That thug in the bar was lucky Luke didn’t pull out his lightsaber

Got a huge star wars vibe

Featured extra by the bar

Why is this in 1080p? The game was released in DVD format. 480p is as good as it's going to get.

Worked scene featured extra

That was audio edited the victims screams were edited out pathATIC

Thankfully there are no rat-hoods in space.

You forgot the subtitles

4:07 - sounds courtesy of aluminium foil, I guess.

next part plis :)

sand princess, seriously?

8:57 - I always hated that dubbed line....

Die schlechteste Computeranimation die ich je gesehen habe. The worst computer animation I've ever seen.