The object of the game is close to the storyline of A New Hope, where the user (playing Luke) has to pilot a landspeeder around Tatooine, collect R2-D2 from the Sandcrawler, Obi-Wan Kenobi from a cave, and Han Solo from the Mos Eisley bar, while fighting stormtroopers, sand people, and many other different enemy characters from the movies. A counterpart of the game for the SNES, Super Star Wars was released as well. The game was followed by a sequel, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
A Master System version was also released. The Sega Game Gear port was developed by Tiertex Design Studios and published by U.S. The Game Boy port was developed by NMS Software and published by Capcom and released shortly less than a year later in 1992. Two versions for handheld game consoles were released. An official mail order 'Hint Book' was available for the game upon its release.
It was released by Victor Interactive Software for the Family Computer in Japan on Novemand by JVC for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America in November 1991.
Star Wars is an action game based on the 1977 film of the same name. Others are coming soon.Īkila Redmer, Andrew Carter, Gary Winnick. This game can be played also in a versions for NES and SMS. The following emulators are available for this game: NeptunJS (JavaScript), Nesbox (Flash), RetroGames (JS) and JavaBoy (Java).
