Born when I was, it was inevitable that I would become a huge star wars fan. But maybe the word "fan" is too small - for boys of the 1980s it was almost a religion. It was our mythology. The more modern films and the crappy cartoons, novels, and comic book tie-ins may have diminished this fandom, but at its height, it was truly something.
So of course, I played the NES Star Wars game. It was not good. Actually, I remember the graphics being much worse. But what I do remember accurately, is its crappiness - as a platformer, as an action game, as anything.
It wouldn't be my first run-in with bad adaptations.
The Super Star Wars games for the SNES were almost cool - but they were terribly difficult.
Of course, we eventually got great Star Wars games like the Jedi Knight series, KOTOR, and other games....
But it took a while.
Actually, as a PS, I DO love the original, arcade vector-based Star Wars game. I've played it tons of times, and have never grown sick of it.
For NES, that's a pretty good looking screen shit, but I'll take your word the game sucks.
yeah, pretty amazing, huh?
So want to return to KOTOR.
Have you tried one of those Star Wars Battle Pods in an arcade. That thing is like the vector graphics game times a million.
no, I haven't, but I'd love to!
I like Star Wars, but outside of the LEGO games, I never really got into the Star Wars games that much.
Have you ever seen the Japan only Namco NES Star Wars game? It's pretty weird!
no, but I'll look that up!
Man growing up I thought I was the hippest in the room when my folks bought me Jedi sweatpants and matching sweaters with the Ewoks on them. Funny that I was into Star Wars but I didn't like the toys or the games until later. I actually liked the SNES Star Wars but hot damn was it hard.
Yeah, I had a ton of star wars merch too. ha ha.