LAST EDITED ON Apr-24-14 AT 08:32 PM (EDT)
 
Long ago, at around the same time as the original Wing Commander was making it big, there was another space combat game that was obviously developed by people who had an Axe to Grind with the unrealistic physics models of Star Wars, Star Trek, and, well, Wing Commander (or, as I believe the box described it, "that other space game"). It was called Mantis and it was ghastly, as one might expect of a space combat game utilizing Newtonian physics and "realistic" weapons-in-space expectations (beyond-line-of-sight targeting etc). Unplayable and boring, which is not a combination many games have managed.

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