Star Wars

Star Wars

released on Nov 15, 1991

Star Wars

released on Nov 15, 1991

This game is based entirely on the first Star Wars movie, Episode IV: A New Hope. The opening of the game features an animated cinematic of the opening scene of the film. After that the player takes control of Luke Skywalker, driving the landspeeder across Tatooine in search of R2-D2. Luke Skywalker explores various locations throughout Tatooine, fighting numerous enemies including Jawas and Stormtroopers. The game features many locations from the movie including the Chalmun's Cantina in Mos Eisley where Luke meets Han Solo for the first time. This section of the game features a classic 8-bit rendition of the "Cantina Band" theme as played by the fictitious band, Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, in the feature film. The game also contains many famous lines from the movie including Obi-Wan Kenobi's plea to Luke to join him in his trip to Alderann and Han Solo's description of the smell from the Death Star's trash compactor. The player eventually lands on the Death Star and has to destroy the tractor beam to escape. The game also features first person segments of piloting the Millenium Falcon through that Asteroid field that was once Alderaan, and shooting down Tie Fighters in both the Millenium Falcon and an X-Wing fighter. The finale of the game features a top down view of Luke Skywalker's X-Wing flying through the Death Star trenches. After the player successfully fires a torpedo into the Death Star's exposed exhaust port, a cinematic of the Death Star exploding and Luke Skywalker being awarded a medal on Yavin IV is shown. The game featured the characters Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Princess Leia, R2-D2, and C-3PO. The game however does not feature Darth Vader or Chewbacca, both of whom are major characters in the film.


Also in series

Star Wars Arcade
Star Wars Arcade
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Attack on the Death Star
Star Wars: Attack on the Death Star
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars
Star Wars

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Had the Gameboy version, could almost never figure out where to go or what to do. Just wandered around the Tatooine levels forever basically

I really like this game. There are so many different genres packaged together. It was crazy to have first person shooting from the Millenium Falcon on the NES.

This game is insanely broken and hard. I've never beaten it as a kid, but somehow enjoyed it a lot.

Iconic soundtrack (even when the songs aren’t from the film score), but everything else is so bad.

obi wan must have been real embarrassed when he found luke dead from some green goo in some random cave he climbed into. theres always Leia I suppose.

I would give this game 2 stars because it is boring, frustratingly difficult, and hardly makes any sense within the story of the movie that it is supposedly based on. However, I give it an extra half a star because I somehow still enjoyed it as a kid, even while being constantly frustrated by it.

The game gives you no direction, the platforming is clunky, the overworld landspeeder is bouncy and weird, the graphics can make it tough to tell what is background and what is interactable, the camera is very zoomed-in which makes it difficult to plan where you're trying to jump to, including parts where you are forced to make blind jumps.

These are all technical limitations of the Gameboy, but if a 8-10 year old recognizes these flaws back in the 90s, they are real problems, not just issues revealed by modern standards.