The 1993 computer game Wing Commander: Privateer wasn't the first to merge free market trading with exciting space combat, but it was the first to combine them in a lovingly rendered sandbox ...

This week, we take a spin through the rich, interplanetary world of Wing Commander: Privateer. And blow significant portions of it up, of course. Confession time: I don't like Elite. Never did.

Although Privateer used the tested gameplay from the Wing Commander series, it blended it perfectly with the earlier space flight sim and trading game, Elite. The result was a thoroughly ...