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History of Star Wars Video Games

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the use-the-cart-luke dept.

Leafel writes "UGO has posted a feature on the history of Star Wars video games, dividing the timeline into 4 categories: The Golden Age (up to 1990), The Silver Age (1991-1996), The Gaming Renaissance (1996-2000), Modern Age (2001 on). From the article 'December 2004 saw the latest release in a long line of Star Wars related video games. As a sequel to one of 2003's top role playing games, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords has made a lot of Xbox owners and RPG fans very happy. In honor of KOTOR II's release and in anticipation of May's Revenge of the Sith movie event, we take a look at the long history of interactive Star Wars entertainment, complete with all of its highs and lows.'"

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  1. Re:Where's the 'x-wing' of today? by keath_milligan · · Score: 3, Informative

    That would be Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed - a massive multiplayer game you pay 15 bucks a month to play alone.

  2. Re:Where's the 'x-wing' of today? by neurojab · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'd love an updated version of X-Wing with state-of-the-art graphics and game-play. What is the closest thing to X-Wing out there today?

    They tried. "Totally games" produced an updated Windows version of Tie Fighter and X-Wing... unfortunately, they "updated" the gameplay a bit too much, and as a result, it totally sucked.

    The DOS version of Tie Fighter may have lacked a bit in the graphics department, but the gameplay was just about perfect. .. Excellent MIDI music that changed according to what was happening on the screen, great controls, a smooth, space-like feeling.

    Honestly, if you liked X-Wing, but haven't played TIE Fighter, I highly recommend you pick up the DOS "Collector's CD-ROM" edition of TIE Fighter. It's an excellent game, and you'll never notice that the graphics aren't that great. I've sucessfully run it under Windows 2000 (with a bit of help from Google). It may work under DosBox in Linux, but I haven't tried lately.