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Unofficial account. From artworks to fun facts: 4 decades of LucasArts & Star Wars games.
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back NES (Sculptured Software/LucasArts) was released 33 years ago.

Star Wars: Yoda Stories (LucasArts) was released 28 years ago. The project Leader was Hal Barwood, who spearheaded Fate of Atlantis (1992), Big Sky Trooper (1995), Indy and the Infernal Machine (1999) and RTX Red Rock (2003). A decade later, it would have been a big hit on Facebook or mobile.

Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter (LucasArts) was released 23 years ago today. To celebrate, my long article on the history of this spaceship is open to all today: patreon.com/posts/66488808

Star Wars 1313 (cancelled in 2013) The E3 2012 Reveal trailer took place in a ship plunging into a large "Underworld portal" giving access to level 1313, on Coruscant. But did you know that journalists discovered the game inside a ship sinking into this "Underworld portal"?

The original Outlaws. I had a lot of fun with this western, long before RDR 👌

[Thread] The PlayStation 2 was released in Japan 25 years ago today! 🥳 Here are the 24 (!) games created, published or licensed by LucasArts for the #PlayStation2 from 2000 to 2009. In other words, the PS2 holds an important place in the history of this game developer/publisher. 1/25

Day of the Tentacle (LucasArts, 1993): Bernard, art by @larryahern.bsky.social

Lovely.

Koronis Rift (Lucasfilm Games, 1985): Sci-fi vehicles, art by Gary Winnick

Thank you for your service 🫡

Just to clarify, Shadows of the Empire (the LucasArts game, 1996) was not inspired by Shadows of the Empire (the novel): the game, the novel and the comic book were developed in parallel to show the same story from different angles.

Star Wars: Dark Forces is 30. Congrats to the 20-people team - their average age was 27! Here are lead artist/writer Justin Chin & project leader Daron Stinnett, in 1995: