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If Disney was really smart, they would hire this guy to make a bunch of traditional-animated films like this!

There was a shorter version that Paul Johnson released a few years ago, but this is the full-fledged vision: Star Wars: TIE Fighter.  And it is breathtaking.  I dare say that I speak for a lot of fans out there when I say that this… THIS… is what we want to see.  And see more of.

Here it is:



For all the wonder of CGI-animation, the traditional 2D style has more… I dunno… “character”? “Emotion”? How about “heart”? And that’s what this video has in spades. This is as much of a Star Wars story as the live-action films, in my opinion. And it’s one that I would gladly pay to see more of at the box office....

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Today shall be a day long remembered…

Courtesy of the amazing folks at GOG.com (the GOG stands for Good Old Games), what are by far two of the greatest computer/video games ever wrought by mortal hands have gone on sale today, ready to be enjoyed by a new generation or by those who have longed to reminisce about those heady days of the early Nineties.

Stick it to the Empire in
X-Wing…

And I would be saying that even if they weren’t Star Wars titles!

X-Wing was an astounding and revolutionary game in its own right and when it came out early in 1993 it took the industry by storm.  With a brilliant combination of 3D graphics, rich user interface, an immersive storyline and balanced yet incredibly challenging gameplay, X-Wing was the Star Wars experience that everyone wanted but few thought we would ever get.  This ...

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Star Wars: TIE Fighter came out in June of 1994. I’d been waiting months for its release: earlier that winter I’d bought the original Star Wars: X-Wing and played it like crazy on my then brand-new 486 25-mhz computer (with 4 megabytes of RAM and a 170 MB hard drive). Well on its release date I was at Babbage’s in Four Seasons Mall right when they opened, plunked down the money and took it home, where I eagerly installed it (from like 6 DOS floppy disks). I spent the rest of the day blasting those bloody Rebels out of the sky, then I had to go to the seafood restaurant that I worked at. I think I spent five hours playing it after I got back from work that night.

Here’s the first thing you’d see when you started the game. From the very first moments of this intro, I ...

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