Star Wars
Release Date  1984
Original Publisher  SP Enterprises (UK)
Min. Hardware  ZX-Spectrum 48K
Language  English
Genre  Adventure Game: Text/Illustrated
Max. Players  1
Copyright Status  Freeware (free but copyrighted)
Inspirations  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Movie) from Lucasfilm Ltd (USA)
Martijn's WoS score  60% (1 votes)

Authors/Contributors
     Stephen Preston (UK) - ?

Remarks
     Stephen recalls: "Star Wars was - of course - all the rage in 1984. Three mega hits had come and gone, although I was starting to lose interest by Jedi. Probably the less said about the new films the better. As such, I was keen to develop the concept into an adventure game, and so I chose Star Wars - not because it was better then Empire, but because I had a VHS copy off HTV Wales. It also suited the adventure game format better than Empire, which had lots of hanging about with Yoda. I can't recall how long it took to write this one, but is was probably in he region of four months, and was really the first of my mega adventures, i.e. quite long to play and bloody too long to program! (I should have known when I was well off, The Girl Who Was Death took more than a year). My main memory of writing this game was enjoying making the graphics a whole lot more than writing the code. It's worth loading now just to hear the hilariously out of tune version of the Star Wars theme I was trying to copy. To prove I can hold a tune though, refer to Girl Who Was Death that mimics the cricket scene music beautifully!"

Main File Downloads
     FilenameReleaseMachineSchemeLanguageComments
 StarWars(instructions).z80.zipOriginalZX-Spectrum 48K(???)English - (instructions)
 StarWars_3.z80.zipOriginalZX-Spectrum 48K(???)English

Additional File Downloads
     FilenameSizeReleaseTypeLanguageComments
     StarWars_3.scr6,912OriginalLoading screen
     StarWars_3.gif3,344OriginalRunning screen
     starwarsadventure.rzx0OriginalRZX playback file - Recorded by ruben_ (with rollback)

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