Play Star Wars: X-Wing Online

Game Overview

Star Wars: X-Wing (1993) throws you straight into the cockpit as a rookie Rebel pilot, and man, does it nail that feeling. You start off running basic missions—scavenging wreckage, sneaking past Star Destroyers to snatch intel—but things escalate fast. Before long, you're tangled up in the whole Death Star plans mess, dodging TIE fighters while trying to get those schematics to Leia. The timeline’s a bit fuzzy (it kinda smooshes events around A New Hope), but who cares when the dogfights feel this intense?

The expansion packs shift gears—now you're covering the Rebel retreat after Yavin, flying B-Wings (which handle like bricks with engines, but hit like a truck). By the end, you’re basically setting up the opening crawl for Empire Strikes Back. The pixelated graphics haven’t aged perfectly, but nailing a perfect torpedo shot on a Star Destroyer’s reactor still gives me chills. If you ever wanted to live out those trench run daydreams, this is as close as it got in ’93.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".