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THE TEAM REMINISCES

We’ve been enjoying Star Wars videogames almost as long as we’ve been enjoying the actual movies. Things started off with an 8-bit bang with the Atari 2600 and Intellivision adaptations of The Empire Strikes Back and we’ve had plenty of adventures in the Star Wars universe ever since. But which ones are the team’s favourites?

DARRAN So what’s the first Star Wars game you ever played, and what did you think of it?

TIM I’m pretty sure it was the vector graphics one on the C64. Not too bad really.

 The first one I played would have been Sega’s Model 1 arcade game, the one that later got converted to the 32X. The cabinet was knackered so it was really hard

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