NES box cover
Developed by Beam Software for Lucasfilm Games and published by JVC, Star Wars is a 1991 Nintendo Entertainment System based on the film A New Hope. Unlike Star Wars (Namco), it is a lot more faithful to the source in question. It was ported a year later to the Game Boy, and in 1993 on the Sega Master System and Game Gear.
This game contains examples of:
- Adapted Out: As with Namco's Star Wars game, Grand Moff Tarkin is nowhere to be found, despite being the film's Big Bad.
- Bottomless Pits: In the Death Star, there are bottomless pits in the Tractor Beam boss fight and the Dianoga boss fight, in the form of sewage.
- Eternal Engine: It's the setting for inside the Death Star. Inside the base is some of the most dangerous foes you have faced.
- Fall Damage: Your playable character will take fall damage if they fall a certain height. The further the fall, the more damage they take.
- Game-Over Man: Darth Vader appears on the Game Over screen if the player decides to not to continue or once all continues are used up.
- Invincible Minor Minion: Quite a few enemies are invulnerable and are best avoided. An example would be the Tripod gunners on the Death Star.
- Jump Physics: Jumping is extremely floaty in this game. It is very difficult to control your character's jump mid-flight.
- Killed Off for Real: If you somehow didn't get Obi-Wan, if either Han or Leia are defeated, they're dead for real.
- Out of Continues: If Han Solo or Leia are defeated and there are no charges left to revive either, they're gone for good.
- Point of No Return: Once you leave Tatooine through the Millennium Falcon, you cannot go back. You better check every cave before you head to Mos Eisley.
- Rise to the Challenge: During the battle with the Dianoga, the sewage will slowly be rising. You need to be quick before it kills your character.
- Spikes of Doom: They are everywhere in the last level in the Death Star level. Touching them will cause your character to recoil and take a lot of damage.
- The Unfought: Darth Vader is never fought once in the game.
- Underground Level: The caves of Tatooine are full of dangerous creatures, Tusken Raiders and Sand People. Be careful, as the latter two pack quite a punch if they collide into Luke!
- Unintentionally Unwinnable: If you do not recruit Obi-Wan, then you cannot damage the Dianoga at all. Only his Lightsaber will be able to damage the Dianoga's eye.
