For his next project, Roberts envisioned an Elite-style game, initially called Squadron and then Wing Leader, that would combine arcade-style space-fighting, innovative music, great graphics and a cinematic storyline he loved movies. Origin published Roberts’ Commodore 64 RPG, Times of Lore, in 1988 and his post-holocaust RPG, Bad Blood, in 1990.
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It finally shipped years later, in 1993.īorn in 1968, Chris Roberts had been a professional game designer since he was 13, when he sold small games in BASIC and machine code for the BBC Microcomputer. You knew they were afraid.”Īfter the trade show ended, Lucasfilm Games unexpectedly announced X-Wing required much more work and would not make Christmas. We joked about how cool they tried to look, the faux nonchalance. They departed.Ī former Origin employee recalls, “You could see the fear in their eyes, as they walked by. That day, the entire Lucasfilm booth staff, including every senior producer at the show, huddled in a tight, silent knot before the Wing Commander monitors. The once-dignified halls of the Consumer Electronics Show turned raucous. The next day, companies in the booths near Origin’s brought their own sound systems in self-defense. Meanwhile, six Lucasfilm staffers gathered before the monitors in silence in silence they departed. Booth staffers turned it down until the officials left, then gradually amped back to full. Trade show officials asked Origin to reduce the volume. They chatted politely (over the deafening music) with the young Origin employees now and then, they glanced at the Wing Commander monitors they departed. Like a stately elk, the coder approached the Origin booth, momentarily surveyed the Wing Commander monitors and ambled on.Ī few minutes later, the programmer returned with another stately Lucasfilm coder. X-Wing was weeks away from going gold, and would easily make the 1990 Christmas season. A bank of monitors showed the demo of a Terran Confederation spaceship cockpit, and its view of beautifully rendered enemy Kilrathi ships diving and swooping with amazing speed.Īt the LucasArts booth – or Lucasfilm Games, as it was then – a programmer ambled away from the demos for the imminent Star Wars: X-Wing starfighter game.
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The upstart game company, best known for the Ultima series of fantasy roleplaying games, was playing the soundtrack from its forthcoming starfighter simulator, Wing Commander. Stirring music, volume at 11, blared across the trade show hall. The quiet aisles of the Consumer Electronics Show grew suddenly loud when Origin Systems turned on its sound system.
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