I Miss Weird Star Wars Games
There was a time when nobody really gave a shit about Star Wars.
We forget it now. Nowadays, we’ve retconned our cultural memory so that Star Wars was always cool. That’s not to say it had disappeared from the world - my generation had plenty of toys and novels and Muppet Babies cameos. But Star Wars itself wasn’t the same juggernaut. Most of us just kind of assumed there would never be more movies, so any and all media that came out was met with a sense of - well, if not awe - at least, “Hey, that’s nice.”
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After Return of the Jedi and before the Special Editions, Star Wars had a little over a decade of not fucking mattering. Being a fan at that time meant you were actually excited for new stories rather than ready to be furious with the energy of a dying star. The scraps were so meager that we lost our minds over Star Wars Monopoly. Which Star Wars Monopoly, you ask? There was only one. That’s how scant this franchise was.
When you’re not one of the biggest franchises in the world controlled by one of the most powerful companies in the world, you can do some truly weird shit. Remember the Ewok movies? Probably not, but those were fucking weird. So were the, ironically, Marvel comics based on the series before Star Wars moved to Dark Horse and then back to Marvel.
But nothing was more beautifully weird than the weird games that came out during Star Wars’ dark ages. Which itself makes sense considering all this coincided with the rise of home PCs, more powerful consoles, and CD-ROMs that could hilariously store more information than companies knew what to do with.
Along with great games like TIE Fighter, we got some truly weird shit like Star Wars
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