Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom was released 30 years ago in early February 1996 for DOS in North America.

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While I was playing around with my non-representative list of 517 videogames from 1994 to 2001 that I consider to be classics and thinking about still having only one game for #1996InVideoGames yet, I calculated the percentages for the game releases in each month for the 8 years.

Not only is the Christmas Window very real, getting games pushed out before the end of the quarter and not when they are ready was also very real.

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RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@danielalbu/115978391197702312

Well, that saves me the work of making this post to start my #1996InVideoGames series this year. 😄

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And this concludes the #1995InVideoGames series. It will be continued next year with #1996InVideoGames, though it's going to be a couple of weeks before the first major game's 30th release date.

Hopefully with all games being posted on time in the correct order, now that I am much better prepared.

@distractedmosfet I am planning to start doing monthly rereadings of 30 year old German PC games magazines as part of #1996inVideoGames. I already casually flipped through them to see if I am reminded of forgotten games not yet on my release date list, and I spotted some real oddities.
Really highly rated games that I have never heard of before, and also really high praise for Mysteries of the Sith, which now every video review I've seen calls hugely disappointing and kinda bad.
Going to be fun.

I found a scan of a 30 year old German PC games magazine doing #VideoGameHistory research today, and it was really fun to flip through it.

I used to read GameStar, which still has all their issues online, and it turns out I started reading it every month at only the fourth issue 12/97.
Before that, I read PC Action, which started at 02/96 and is on Archive.org.

I think it would be really fun to read and write a personal perspective every month for #1996InVideoGames next year. ⭐

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