"Wing Commander" shipped in 1990 for PC/DOS as the initial platform and came with an instruction booklet styled as a shipboard magazine, "Claw Marks". It provided tactical suggestions, statistics on fighters and weapons both Kilrathi and Terran, capsule biographies of notable pilots on both sides of the line, and general shipboard news (such as the discontinuation of the popular comic strip "Hornet's Nest", due to the recent death of its artist, Lt. Larry "Tooner" Dibbles). Notable contributors to the "Claw Marks" magazine include Captain Aaron Allston, Major Warren Spector, and Col. Chris Roberts. The game also shipped with a set of blueprints for the game's four playable fighters, the Hornet, Scimitar, Rapier, and Raptor.