I have a very hard time believing thresh invented/mainstreamed WASD.

First, well before quake there were games that required mouselook, probably most notably descent and xwing type games. (Joysticks were expensive, uncommon peripherals for the most part). I clearly remember playing both of those games with a keyboard / mouse setup like today, and that feels like it was around 2 years prior to quake's release.

Second, as a diehard quake junkie who practically camped outside the store to get my hands on the game, from the very beginning there were many sites dedicated to qtest (the beta), and the very first thing those pages trafficked were cfg files from all the people arguing which control method was best. (then came skins, maps, quakeworld, mods, machinima, etc). I would say WASD was pretty well established well before Thresh won his ferrari- I dont have any statistical data or anything, and I think its cool that carmack included his .cfg file in later releases, but I highly doubt he was the first to use it / that people used it because they wanted to imitate him.

yeah yeah yeah... looks like a fun toy.

NOW STOP FUCKING AROUND AND GIVE ME AN UPGRADED XWING/TIE FIGHTER WITH RIFT SUPPORT.

I honestly don't know how much money I'd be willing to pay for it.... but it wouldn't be a small number.

O make it a Xwing 2 and Tie fighter 2 and were all happy although tiefighter was stuttering like hell on my 386 40mhz

Please, please, please... can someone produce Xwing 2.0 !? I went out and bought $400 worth of hardware to get that game to run on my 486 and wasn't disappointed in the least.

Just cant stand the art style...somethings not right this little gem on the other side really looks like homeworld
http://videosift.com/video/Enemy-Starfighter-Xwing-homeworld-muahaha

where is the mini Xwing that it can sit in the back of?

This one time, I was 12, I was so proud I had used a bunch of red, white, blue and green standard bricks that ALMOST looked like an XWing fighter.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Life Size XWing Rocket Star Wars' to 'xwing, space, fighter, rocket, star wars' - edited by EDD

I enjoyed it, though my penchant was always for the more hardcore privateer series, and xwing vs Tie fighter.

Dam they were good games

This game actually had a better cast than that horrible movie they did. God I miss games like this. My flight stick is crying for a new Wing Commander or Xwing game.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/star-wars/rocketpowered-21foot-long-xwing-model-actually-flies-updated-new-pics-show-it-even-has-builtin-r2d2-305976.php

Another article on them there. Very impressive.

really looking forward to the XPrize cup and seeing the latest Armadillo update.

All good points up until the bit about the X-wings, EVERYBODY knows that X-wings can change their stabilizer foil positions for different purposes, thus the famous phrase, "Lock S-foils in attack position!"

S-foils in flight position
S-foils in attack position

....oh my god, I am such a nerd.

Upvote for hilarious parody.

I dunno...XWing and Tie Fighter were pretty good.