I miss Rogue Squadron.
I actually have only played the games on someone else’s machine – I’ve even played Super Bombad Racing, if you can believe the levels of Star Wars fandom. I remember hanging out in a Toys ‘R Us on a double date playing Rogue Squadron II on a demo Gamecube.
These are games where you play as Wedge Antilles and you visit planets like Bakura to interact with Tycho Celchu. This is the Expanded Universe.
There was a new Rogue Squadron game being developed for Wii by Factor 5. Then Factor 5 went bankrupt. To avoid surrendering their assets (in the process doing some shady business) they set a fake company called Blue Harvest and started transferring source code to the servers of that company.
Blue Harvest? Really? Like a mild Star Wars fan couldn’t pick up on that.
You might as well have hid the plans in an R2 unit. No one would have seen that coming.
Semi-related posts:
I miss the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games. The two genres LucasArts did best- adventure games and flight sims- seem to be the two that have disappeared. Maybe the return of Monkey Island means a return to space combat, someday…