The music is the only thing from the film that's licensed, and it's pretty obviously just a way of sidestepping the fact that they were never going to be able to get hold of a licence for the movie itself, because the exclusive rights had already been sold elsewhere. Even Lucasfilm games couldn't make an official Star Wars game for several years, so there was no way an obscure British start-up would get them.bluespikey wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:16 am I was always curious about the legitamcy of Death Start Interceptor. The loading screen acknowledges the Star Wars theme but then Star Wars the film is never blatently mentioned again.
It's worth noting that everything else in the game, despite being an obvious nod to the films and somewhat influenced by the Star Wars arcade game, is sufficiently generic so not to as not to infringe any of the many Star Wars trademarks.
In particular the 'Death Star' itself was an idea that Lucas borrowed from an obscure Japanese film - Attack from Space - so couldn't be trademarked.