2. Star Wars: X-Wing (1993) | PC

This is the game that kicked off the entire X-Wing franchise and the first real attempt at a big space-combat Star Wars game. Developed by Lucasarts, it was created after Star Wars became hot again in the early ‘90s thanks to Expanded Universe novels like the Thrawn trilogy. To take advantage of this new interest, Lucasarts took the tech it developed for its popular WW2 aerial combat games and built a Star Wars game focused on simulating what it would actually feel like to fly and maintain an X-wing. It was a huge hit and would spawn a sequel…