The only gameplay offered allowed the player to pilot a snow speeder and take out an endless stream of AT-ATs by shooting their glowing exhaust ports.Īs crude as it was, the success of this title made Star Wars a permanent fixture in video games, from popular RPGs like BioWare's Knights of the Old Republic to oddities like The Yoda Chronicles for mobile devices. Like most games of the era, Atari shunned the movie plot and focused specifically on one action element: the Battle of Hoth. Dubbed Electric Battle Command, this Kenner developed game prominently displayed an X-Wing, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia on the game's standalone hardware, but the gameplay didn't have much to do with Star Wars at all, and pushed the player to avoid black holes and locate the "Force-giving star."Ī true console Star Wars game didn't arrive until Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was released on Atari 2600 in 1982 (two years after the film graced theaters). The first officially licensed Star Wars "video game" arrived a year later in 1979. The game, which you can play in your web browser today, is an enjoyable little TIE Fighter shooting gallery. In 1978, a year after Star Wars: A New Hope opened in theaters, the reputable Apple Computer released an unlicensed Star Wars game called Starwars on cassette tape for the Apple II. Some of these creators were so certain this science-fiction universe would transition to the interactive space that they didn't even get the rights for the Star Wars property, but still decided to release their games.
Game developers saw the potential Star Wars had in the video games realm from the moment the film debuted on the silver screen in 1977. Before reappearing in 2017, though, this feature was originally published in December 2015. In honor of May the Fourth, 2022, we are republishing our list of the 30 best games that take place in a galaxy far, far away, this time with updated entries for four new Star Wars games that have been released since the last time this list was published in 2017.
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