Re: Star Wars Arcade port for the Apple II?

["Don" <coach41@pacbell.net>]

Chris Alaimo wrote:
> According to a Wikipedia article (eye roll), Broderbund released a post
> of the original Star Wars Arcade game for the Apple II in 1988.  I can
> find no other reference to this anywhere else on the internet.  So is
> the article full of it, or does anyone else remember this, or better
> yet have a disk image?
>
> Chris

As a 14 year old kid back in 1988, I can't recall Star Wars being ever
released for the Apple II.  I'm fairly certain that if Broderbund had
released it, it would be a fairly "big deal".  Big publisher
(Broderbund) and a big time movie/video game (Star Wars) should have
created a fairly big buzz.  If I had known about it and the game has
been released, I probably would have bought it (though I had the Atari
5200 version from Parker Brothers).

The IIGS would have only been around for about 2 years and the Apple II
market was in decent shape.  I find it odd that Broderbund would have
acquired the license for Star Wars games.  WHile I seem to see notes
online that Commodore got some Star Wars games, I don't recall them
either.

However, your find is fairly interesting.  I wonder if there is a demo
copy or something floating around in someone's hard drive somewhere
that we can dig up. 

Don