Super Star Wars

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Super Star Wars is the first of a series of three Super Nintendo games based on the original three films of the Star Wars series, released November 30, 1992. The plot is based on Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. In 2009 the game was released on the Wii's Virtual Console and on November 17, 2015, it was ported to PlayStation 4 and Vita. The term Super Star Wars can refer to the first game or the entire series. All are essentially platform games, although they all have stages which feature other challenges, such as driving a landspeeder or piloting an X-wing fighter. All three also feature multiple playable characters with different abilities.

The game's manual added a number of names and details not spelled out in the game itself.^[2] The Super Star Wars Official Game Secrets guide released separately added even more details.^[3]

Opening crawl

Episode IV
A NEW HOPE

It is a period of civil war.
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have won
their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.

During the battle, Rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire's
ultimate weapon, the DEATH
STAR, an armored space
station with enough power to
destroy an entire planet.

Pursued by the Empire's
sinister agents, Princess
Leia races home aboard her
starship, custodian of the
stolen plans that can save
her people and restore
freedom to the galaxy....

Gameplay

Super Star Wars generally follows the Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope plot closely, with some changes made to suit a platform action game. Characters have to fight their way from scene to scene. Instead of simply buying the droids from the Jawas, Luke Skywalker meets C-3PO in the desert, then fights his way into and through the Jawa Sandcrawler to rescue R2-D2. The player characters, not Obi-Wan Kenobi, shut down the tractor beam after fighting a number of enemies.

The player is able to initially control Luke Skywalker, then can choose Han Solo or Chewbacca as the game progresses. Other levels have players control Luke's landspeeder and an X-wing fighter.

At one point, the game was to include a garbage compactor level, where the Dianoga would likely be the boss. Early press images included a screenshot from that scene.^[4]

Levels

Dune Sea - Boss: Sarlacc Pit Monster
Tatooine I (Landspeeder, Level 1)
Outside the Sandcrawler
Inside the Sandcrawler - Boss: Lava Beast Jawenko
Part I: Land of the Sandpeople / Part II: Land of the Banthas - Boss: Mutant Womprat
Tatooine II (Landspeeder to Mos Eisley)
Mos Eisley
Cantina Fight - Boss: Kalhar Boss Monster
Escape from Mos Eisley - Boss: Hover Combat Carrier
Death Star Bay - Boss: Imperial Defense Droid
Rescue of the Princess - Boss: Detention Guard Boss
Tractor Beam Core
Death Star Attack
Trench Battle - Boss: Darth Vader's TIE Advanced

Weapons

Power-Ups

Plasma shield - Temporary invulnerability
Thermal detonator - Clears screen of enemies
Health (Small and Large) - Regains health
Time - Increases time to finish the level
Bonus - Multiplies the number of points by 2
Health Sword - Increases size of health bar
Extra Life - One more life

Enemies

The game's manual refers to many Cantina aliens by their individual names, but since multiple versions appear fighting in one scene this list assumes there are also other, multiple members of those species present.

Aqualish (including Ponda Baba)
Bantha (mini-boss)
Bounty hunters
Devaronians (including Labria)
Duros
Boulders
Eyeball Droids^[3]
Factory droids
GNK power droids
Imperial spider droids
IT-O interrogation droid
Unidentified repulsorcrafts
Jawas
Kubaz (including Garindan)
LIN demolitionmech autonomous minelayer/Legends
Maintenance droid (Mos Eisley) (mini-boss)
Mechanical claws
Mouse Droids
Mynocks

Ground Level Automated Defense Droid Systems (GLADDS)^[3]
Rodians (including Greedo and Breedo^[3])
Sandworms
Saucer Droids^[3]
Scorpions
Shistavanens (including Lak Sivrak)
Spidertaurs^[3]
Spitapillar^[3]
Sandtrooper or Stormtrooper officers
Stormtroopers
Stormtroopers with E-Web blasters
T0-D interrogation droids
TIE Fighters
Turrets
Tusken Raiders (as "Sand People")
Womp rats
Worrts (as "Drogs")

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Special thanks

Crew

LucasArts Game Team

Direction and Design by Kalani Streicher
Art Supervision by Harrison Fong
Animation Supervision by Jon Knoles
Art and Animation by Jon Knoles, Harrison Fong, Paul Mica, James Dollar, Avril Harrison, Armand Cabrera, Peter Chan, Larry Ahern, Anson Jew
Quality Assurance Supervision by Wayne Cline
Lead Testing by David Popovich
Product Marketing by Mary Bihr
Produced by Kalani Streicher
Package Design by Moore & Price Design Group, Inc.
Manual Design and Layout by Mark Shepard

Sculptured Software, Inc. Team

Programmed by Peter Ward
Music and Sound Effects arranged and performed by Paul Webb
Art and Animation by Mike Lott, Lance Thornblad, Les Pardew, Lorin Nelson, Rob Kemp, Joe Hitchens
Additional Programming by Steve Aquirre and Adam Clayton
Additional Music and Sound Effects by Mark Ganus
Project Management by Hal Rushton