ULTIMATE GUIDE: SUPER STAR WARS
Super Star Wars was – and still is – absolutely gorgeous. The wonderfully animated, bountifully colourful sprites absolutely pop from the screen. It’s stunning. Even now, some 27 years after its release, it can hold its own in a beauty parade of pixel art, with Luke Skywalker’s bouncily animated hair scooping the Pantene special award for volume and lustre.
In 1992, games based on film licences were hardly bastions of quality. Games like RoboCop and Batman from Ocean stood out from a generally god-awful crowd of cheap cash-ins on the latest movie’s popularity. But Super Star Wars was something else entirely. For a start, it was hardly an opportune tie-in with a current film
