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Re: Star Wars Arcade port for the Apple II?



On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Don wrote:

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.

Br0derbund did in fact have rights to the game as they released it on the IBM PC. (Damn good port too. Played it on my Tandy)

-uso.