History YMMV / XWing

** You wouldn't think Lambda class shuttles (think the stolen ''Tydirium'' from Return of the Jedi) would be a threat against a snubfighter. Mission ten of Tour of Duty 1 puts the lie to that ''real'' quick; in ''X-Wing'' Lambda-class shuttles feature quad lasers and stronger shields than the average starfighter.

* HilariousInHindsight: X-Wing was the first ''Star Wars'' game ever made by [=LucasArts=], as late as 1993, after the company got the rights back from Creator/BroderbundSoftware. Only years later, the company would be critizised for not making anything else and had to undergo an strategic shift that never quite succeeded.
* NightmareFuel: The face of the medical droid. The UnnaturallyBlueLighting makes it worse.

** Late in the game, the TIE Advanced, which is the same type of craft Vader piloted on ''Film/ANewHope'', not only they're faster than the A-Wing and more maneuverable than the TIE Interceptor, but they're also shielded which makes a it royal pain in the ass to try to take them out. Fortunately they're much rarer that other enemies.

* NightmareFuel: [[UncannyValley The face of the medical droid.]] The UnnaturallyBlueLighting makes it worse.

* HilariousInHindsight: X-Wing was the first ''Star Wars'' game ever made by LucasArts, as late as 1993. Only years later, the company would be critizised for not making anything else.

** Other notable offenders are the eighth and tenth missions of the first tour of duty. The former has you identifying which transports have rebel prisoners in need of rescue while you're being pursued by TIE fighters, on an extremely tight [[TimedMission time limit]]. The latter is exactly the same, except this time you're identifying Lambda class shuttles, and unlike transports, they'll shoot back. It doesn't help that both missions put you in the very slow Y-Wing
*** It's been joked that in the former mission that you'll see more of Sullust's moon, Sulon, than you will in [[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Jedi Knight]], which has over half the game set on the moon.

** The infamous Redemption Run is both of these, with enemies coming from two sides, your wingmen not responding to your commands, and a single tiny mistake meaning failure. It's basically impossible to find a working solution for the mission without hours of TrialAndErrorGameplay. Its hardness became an AscendedMeme in the ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'' by Creator/MichaelStackpole and Creator/AaronAllston, where the "''Redemption'' Scenario" (dubbed "''Requiem'' Scenario" by the pilots), based on the mission, is an infamously hard VirtualTrainingSimulation used by the New Republic Starfighter Command.

** Other notable offenders are the eighth and tenth missions of the first tour of duty. The former has you identifying which transports have rebel prisoners in need of rescue while you're being pursued by TIE fighters. The latter is exactly the same, except this time you're identifying Lambda class shuttles, and unlike transports, they'll shoot back. It doesn't help that both missions put you in the very slow Y-Wing

* ThatOneLevel: See EscortMission and ProtectionMission on the main page - the infamous Redemption Run is both of these, with enemies coming from two sides, your wingmen not responding to your commands, and a single tiny mistake meaning failure. It's basically impossible to find a working solution for the mission without hours of TrialAndErrorGameplay. Its hardness became an AscendedMeme in the ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'' by Creator/MichaelStackpole and Creator/AaronAllston, where the "''Redemption'' Scenario" (dubbed "''Requiem'' Scenario" by the pilots), based on the mission, is an infamously hard VirtualTrainingSimulation used by the New Republic Starfighter Command.

* NoProblemWithLicensedGames: One of the best Star Wars related products in its day, with cinematics only below the ones from ''VideoGame/RebelAssault'', that was CD-ROM based and not a 3" 1/2 like X-Wing, and, unlike the aforementioned ''Rebel Assault'', actually having gameplay that rivaled some of the best flight sims of the time, instead of being a very barebones and amateurishly-done arcade game.

** Those damned Assault Gunboats, unlike TIE Fighters and their variants, Assault Gunboats have shields, anti-starfighter missiles and are equipped with a hyperdrive meaning they can jump in an out of the battlefield at any moment.

** Late in the game, the TIE Advanced, which is the same time of craft Vader piloted on ''Film/ANewHope'', not only they're faster than the A-Wing and more maneuverable than the TIE Interceptor, but they're also shielded which makes a it royal pain in the ass to try to take them out. Fortunately they're much rarer that other enemies.

** Those damned Assault Gunboats, unlike TIE Fighters and their variants, Assault Gunboats have shields and are equipped with anti-starfighter missiles.

** Late in the game, the TIE Advanced, which is the same time of craft Vader piloted on ''Film/ANewHope'', not only they're faster than the A-Wing and more maneuverable than the TIE Interceptor, but they're also shielded which makes a it royal pain in the ass to try to take them out.

** Those damned Assault Gunboats, TIE Advanced, and in ''TIE Fighter'' and in later games, the TIE Defender, the LightningBruiser of starfighters.

* GoddamnBats: Goddamn TIE Fighters/Z-95s/T-Wings...

* ThatOneLevel: See EscortMission and ProtectionMission on the main page - the infamous Redemption Run is both of these, with enemies coming from two sides, your wingmen not responding to your commands, and a single tiny mistake meaning failure. It's basically impossible to find a working solution for the mission without hours of TrialAndErrorGameplay.\\
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Its hardness became an AscendedMeme in the ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'' by Creator/MichaelStackpole and Creator/AaronAllston, where the "''Redemption'' Scenario" (dubbed "''Requiem'' Scenario" by the pilots), based on the mission, is an infamously hard VirtualTrainingSimulation used by the New Republic Starfighter Command.

** You wouldn't think Lambda class shuttles (think the stolen ''Tydirium'' from Return of the Jedi) would be a threat against a snubfighter. Mission ten of Tour of Duty 1 puts the lie to that ''real'' quick.

* DemonicSpiders: Those damned Assault Gunboats, TIE Advanced, and in ''TIE Fighter'' and in later games, the TIE Defender, the LightningBruiser of starfighters.

* NoProblemWithLicensedGames: One of the best Star Wars related products in its day, with cinematics only below the ones from VideoGame/RebelAssault, that was CD-ROM based and not a 3" 1/2 like X-Wing, and, unlike the aforementioned Rebel Assault, actually having gameplay that rivaled some of the best flight sims of the time, instead of being a very barebones and amateurishly-done arcade game.
* ThatOneLevel: See EscortMission and ProtectionMission on the main page - the infamous Redemption Run is both of these, with enemies coming from two sides, your wingmen not responding to your commands, and a single tiny mistake meaning failure. It's basically impossible to find a working solution for the mission without hours of TrialAndErrorGameplay.

* NoProblemWithLicensedGames: One of the best Star Wars related products in its day, with cinematics only below the ones from VideoGame/RebelAssault, that was CD-ROM based and not a 3" 1/2 like X-Wing.
* ThatOneLevel: See EscortMission and ProtectionMission on the main page - the infamous Redemption Run is both of these, with enemies coming from two sides, your wingmen not responding to your commands, and a single tiny mistake meaning failure.

* ThatOneLevel: See EscortMission on the main page.

* NightmareFuel: [[UncannyValley The face of the medical droid.]] The UnnaturallyBlueLighting makes it [[ItGotWorse worse]].

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[UncannyValley The face of the medical droid.]] The UnnaturallyBlueLighting makes it [[ItGotWorse worse]].