Your Technology Mar. 15, 1999

LEAVE YOUR JOYSTICK AT HOME Any of the 5 million people who own Wing Commander, the perennially popular space-wars game for the PC, could imagine that its developer, Chris Roberts, had big aspirations. After all, this is the guy who created an elaborate futuristic world where humans battle the evil Kilrathi race across the galaxy. At last Roberts' cyberfantasies get the colossal scale they deserve in the movie version of his game, opening Friday. Expect dazzling effects in this, the first PC game adapted for film.

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