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Game description

Will You Accept the Challenge of a Jedi Knight?
Pursued across the galaxy, you and your Rebel Forces now marshall new strength on the remote ice world of Hoth.
Although tracked by an army of gigantic Imperial Walkers, you must not give in. You are the Alliance's only hope. Learn the ways of the Force, then test your skills in this fast-paced, action-packed sequel to the hit game, Super Star Wars®.

• Sequel to the award-winning Super Star Wars
• 12 megabits of action
• Three different player perspectives
• Password system for access to higher levels
• Packed with cool graphics, sound effects and music

Opening crawl

It is a dark time for the
Rebellion. Although the Death
Star has been destroyed,
Imperial troops have driven the
Rebel forces from their hidden
base and pursued them across
the galaxy.

Evading the dreaded Imperial
Starfleet, a group of freedom
fighters led by Luke Skywalker
has established a new secret
base on the remote ice world
of Hoth.

The evil lord Darth Vader,
obsessed with finding young
Skywalker, has dispatched
thousands of remote probes into
the far reaches of space....

Synopsis

Search for the crash site

After the Battle of Yavin and the destruction of the Empire's Death Star^[6], the Rebel Alliance has established a secret base on the ice planet Hoth.

In search of Rebel pilot Luke Skywalker, an Imperial Star destroyer deploys multiple probe droids, one of which lands on Hoth. Whilst riding a Tuantaun, young Luke Skywalker notices the falling probe droid and mistakes it for a meteorite. He reports his discovery back to Echo Base and decides to investigate the crash site.

Luke transverses the frozen landscape only to come across a cave full of Wampas. At the end of the cave Skywalker comes face to face with the Giant Wampa Creature^[7], a massive beast that Luke kills before exiting the cave.

Outside the cave Luke is caught in a snowstorm, he enters yet another cave. He eventually reaches the end of the cave and continues his journey through to the meteorite crash site. There Luke comes across the massive Probe droid, which immediately attacks the young Skywalker. Luke retaliates and "defeats" the probe droid, but the droid makes its escape.

Eventually Luke finds a large body eel infested water^[7], where he encounters the giant probe droid yet again. Despite the odds, Skywalker destroys the probe droid, but not before it alerts the Empire of the Rebels presence on Hoth.

The Battle of Hoth

It's the battle of hoth.

Mission to Dagobah

Luke goes to Dagobah to train with Yodi.

Trouble in Cloud City

C-3PO goes missing, ruh roh.

Duel against the Dark Lord

Duel of the fates.

Gameplay

Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back follows closely the standard set by Super Star Wars, with multiple playable characters and Mode 7 quasi-3D vehicle sequences. Controls are very similar to the first game, but with an enhanced double-jump. Unlike its predecessor, the player is able to use Force powers.

Playable Characters

Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back allows you to play as three characters from the Star Wars Trilogy:

• Luke Skywalker
  • Levels: 1-9, 12, 13, 18 and 19
• Han Solo
  • Levels: 9-11, 14 and 16
• Chewbacca
  • Levels: 15 and 17

Weapons

• Laser Blaster
• Lightsaber (Only as Luke Skywalker)

Power-Ups

• Plasma Shield - Protects player from damage for a short time
• Small Heart - Player regains small amount of health
• Large Heart - Player regains large amount of health
• Blaster Power-ups
  • Flame blaster - Fires fire blasts that instantly eliminates enemies
  • Proton Seeker - Fires energy protons that follow enemies
  • Rapid ion gun - Fires a powerful rapid Ion blast
  • Plasma Wave Blaster - Fires giant plasma wave blast that destroys enemies
• Thermal detonator - Destroys weak enemies and most destructible items on screen
• Point Bonus - Multiplies points scored for each any defeated
• Extra Life - Provides player with another life
• Health Sword - Increases size of health bar

Force Powers

There are 7 force powers within the game, however they are only available to Luke Skywalker after he reaches Dagobah.

• Mind Control (M) - Enemies become confused and turn away from Luke
• Elevation (E) - Luke gains the ability to momentarily levitate
• Freeze (F) - Luke freezes on-screen enemies
• Slow Down/Anti-Motion (S) - Enemies on screen are slowed down
• Saber Control (L) - Luke throws his lightsaber and then controls it while it is airborne
• Saber Deflect (D) - Luke automatically blocks incoming attacks
• Invisible (I) - Luke becomes invincible
• Health (H) - Luke regains health

Levels

Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back contains a total of 19 levels. Each level can be accessed by typing in a 6 digit password in the "Password" menu that is available on the game's starting screen. 3 separate passwords exist for each level, one password per game difficulty.^[8] The 19 levels take place on the planets Hoth, Dagobah, Bespin along with an asteroid field level.

• Level 1: First Ice Cave
• Level 2: Hoth
• Level 3: Second Cave
• Level 4: Snowstorm
• Level 5: Hoth Rebel Base
• Level 6: 3D Snowspeeder Section
• Level 7: Side-Scrolling Snowspeeder Section
• Level 8: Inside AT-AT
• Level 9: Han Solo at Hoth Base (Part 1)
• Level 10: Han Solo at Hoth Base (Part 2)
• Level 11: Millennium Falcon
• Level 12: Dagobah (Part 1)
• Level 13: Dagobah (Part 2)
• Level 14: Han Solo at Bespin
• Level 15: Ugnaught Factory
• Level 16: Carbonite Chamber
• Level 17: Chewbacca vs. Boba Fett
• Level 18: X-Wing at Cloud City
• Level 19: Luke vs. Darth Vader

Enemies

There is an abundance of enemies found in Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

Hoth

The following enemies appear in levels 1-10:

• Air Assault Troopers
• AT-ATs
• AT-STs
• Baby Wampas
• Cold assault stormtroopers
• Hoth hogs
• Fire Bats
• Grenadier troopers
• Ice Bats
• Ice Cats
• Icy jellyfish
• Ice Plants
• Ice Piranhas
• Ion eels
• Ion Turrets
• Laser Cannon Gunners
• Mechanical claws
• Orbot Droids
• Probe Droids
• Security Droids
• Snowballs
• Snow Bears
• Snow Mynocks
• Speeder Bike Assault Force
• Spider Droids
• TIE Fighters
• Zero-G Stormtroopers

Dagobah

The following enemies appear in levels 12 and 13:

• Acid Plants
• Dagbats
• Dagobian caterpillars
• Dagopillers
• Fire Plants
• Gundarks
• Helios
• Ion eels
• Piranhas
• Porcuspines
• Stargerms
• Swamp Gators

Cloud City

The following enemies appear in levels 14-19.

• Armor Droids
• Carbon-Freeze Exhaust units
• Cloud cars
• Darth Vader's Security Force troopers
• Floor laser installations
• Four-way Laser Towers
• Grappler Cranes
• Grenadier Droids
• Hover Droids (small)
• Hover Droid (large)
• Security Droids
• TIE fighters
• Three-way Ceiling Guns
• Ugnaught
• Vader's Special Force Troopers
• Wide-beam lasers

Bounty Hunters

There are five bounty hunters present throughout Cloud City.

• 4-LOM
• Bossk
• Dengar
• IG-88
• Zuckuss

Bosses

There are a total of 12 bosses in the game.

• Boss 1: The Wampa Ice Creature
• Boss 2: Probe Droid Boss
• Boss 3: AT-AT Walker
• Boss 4: Combat Attack Transport (C.A.T.)
• Boss 5: AT-ST Walker
• Boss 6: Habogad
• Boss 7: Tibanna Hover Transport
• Boss 8: The Ugharro Mining Crusher
• Boss 9: The Carbon Freezing Chamber Core
• Boss 10: Boba Fett
• Boss 11: Slave I
• Final Boss: Darth Vader (Three encounters)

Development

Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was in production for 2 years, development having started midway through the production Super Star Wars. When designing the game, the LucasArts team was given access not just to the main Star Wars films but also sound effects, backdrops, costumes, props, novels, and scripts that where within the Skywalker Ranch archives.^[9]

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Contest^[10] winner Jeff Crosno face replaces Bob Andersons face on Trey Callum's body^[11]

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Release and reception

Upon release the game was met with mostly positive reception. In their November 1993 issue, video game magazine GamePro gave the game a perfect 5.0 in Graphics, Sound, and Funfactor but only a 4.0 in Controls, saying, "LucasArts has made some big changes, including the biggest change of all—the game is much, much harder. Even at the Easy settings veteran players will find these are hard times for heroes".^[12] British gaming magazine Super Play gave the game a score of 71.^[source?]

Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was featured on the cover of the 53rd volume of Nintendo Power Magazine.^[13]

Credits

Appearances

Cover gallery

Front cover

Back cover

Japanese cover

Virtual console icon

Differences between game and film

There are several discrepancies between the video game Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and the film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back.

• In the film Luke is attacked by a Wampa and then taken to the Wampa cave. He escapes and and is then rescued by Han. In the game Luke ventures across Hoth and through the Wampa cave in search of the meteorite crash site.
• In the film it is Han who discovers the probe droid instead of Luke.
• Several droid models and Stormtrooper variants not seen during the Battle of Hoth in the film are present in the game

Behind the Scenes?maybe?

• The game was released on June 1st, 1993, exactly one year after Super Star Wars and one year before Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
• Advertised as a 12 megabit game. For a relatively brief period in gaming history, some particularly large games were advertised based on their contents in megabits, some of which required special cartridges to hold. Other games advertised in this manner included Strider, Streets of Rage, and Final Fantasy VI (Known at time of release as Final Fantasy III). Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, the next in the series, was advertised as 16 megabits.
• Included a password system so users could effectively save games without needing any onboard cartridge memory.
• Originally the Carbon Freezing Chamber level came after the X-Wing level, and thus would have been played as Luke. Screenshots of this can be found in the manual.
• Also, there was going to be an item to increase the length of Luke's Force Meter akin to the Health Sword; it is shown in the manual.
• Released in Japan by Victor Interactive Software as Super Star Wars: Teikoku no Gyakushuu. (English: Super Star Wars: The Empire's Counterattack)

Bibliography

Explore all of Wookieepedia's images for this article subject.

• "Lucasfilm's Latest: Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Update" — Star Wars Insider 28
• "Game Room: Where Aliens Are Fair Game" — Star Wars Galaxy Magazine 3
• "Game Room: Playing Empire Games" — Star Wars Galaxy Magazine 4
• Super Empire Strikes Back Official Game Secrets
• Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back INSTRUCTION BOOKLET
• Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - The Making of a Masterpiece (pp. 84-87), published by Nintendo Power on Nintendo Power volume 52. (September 1, 1993) (backup link not verified!)
• Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (pp. 8-17), published by Nintendo Power on Nintendo Power volume 52. (October 1, 1993) (backup link not verified!)

Notes and references

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