X-Wing is a PC game first launched in 1993, with various expansion packs and collector's editions being released as late as 1997. The history of the game itself goes back to the early 1990s, when Lucas Arts approached game developer Lawrence Holland and his studio, Totally Games!, to develop a series of games for the publisher. The first games were actually World War II flight simulators including Battlehawks 1942 and perhaps Holland's best known non-franchise game, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. These games became instant classics, and in the meantime Holland was working on a 3D rendering engine specifically for flight sims, something that back in 1992 was revolutionary.