Let's Play Star Wars Arcade Game (1983) - Red Five to the Rescue
4Movie tie-in games weren't always terrible. In fact, some are regarded as one of the best games of all-time. That list includes (according to Wikipedia) the 1983 Star Wars arcade game. Despite being 35 years old, the game recreates the Battle of Yavin as you fly Luke Skywalker's X-Wing against TIE Fighters, Death Star turbolasers and down the trench to the exhaust port.
Thanks to the use of vector graphics and pushing the power of arcade consoles at the time, it was still considered a great arcade and licensed game decades later. However, with Star Wars games pushing into the realm of photorealistic with the new EA Battlefront games and LucasArts setting the bar for space combat games in the 90s, does this arcade classic still hold up today?
High score records from Twin Galaxies:
https://www.twingalaxies.com/game/star-wars-the-arcade-game/colecovision/
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