Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1985 video game)
| Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back | |
|---|---|
North American arcade flyer | |
| Developer | Atari Games |
| Publishers | Atari Games Ports Domark |
| Designer | Mike Hally |
| Programmers | Greg Rivera Norm Avellar |
| Artist | Dave Ralston |
| Composer | Brad Fuller |
| Series | Star Wars |
| Platforms | Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum |
| Release | Arcade
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| Genre | Rail shooter |
| Mode | Single-player |
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1985 rail shooter video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades. Based on the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back, the game is a sequel to Atari, Inc.'s 1983 arcade game Star Wars, and was originally released as a conversion kit for said game. As in Star Wars, the player takes the role of Luke Skywalker in a set of battle sequences from a first-person perspective. The game features the Battle of Hoth and the subsequent escape of the Millennium Falcon through an asteroid field.
The Empire Strikes Back was Atari's third Star Wars arcade game, and the second to use vector graphics, having been preceded by the raster graphics game Return of the Jedi in 1984. Home ports of The Empire Strikes Back were released by Domark for the Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and Amiga in 1988.