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Sega's Star Wars Arcade Home Console Port (Sega Genesis/Mega Drive 32x) | BESWGE #17

Ginger Gaming 7,573 1 month ago
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Star Wars Arcade for the Sega Genesis (aka Mega Drive) 32x add-on is a home console port of Sega's Star Wars Arcade. The graphics and gameplay are better than Atari's arcade Star Wars games from a decade earlier, but there were better games to play on other consoles from the same time. The game doesn't even know what battle it wants to present. The opening crawl says it's an adaptation of Episode IV (A New Hope), but then gives the player orders from Admiral Ackbar. The Arcade mode ends with blowing up the Second Death Star from Return of the Jedi, then shows the award ceremony from ANH, only to show Obi-Wan and Yoda's Force Ghosts from ROTJ as a post-credits scene. The "enhanced" 32x mode blows up the First Death Star, but I didn't play that mode until the end, so I don't know what the credits look like in that mode. (I assume it's the same for both.) I have no desire to play the same game again but with additional repeated levels. Either way the game is fun, but doesn't offer anything compelling enough to warrant multiple playthroughs for me. 0:00 Start 0:44 Arcade mode, first attempt 2:46 Switched to 32x mode 11:44 Back to Arcade mode! 15:37 Credits

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