Super Star Wars
Join Luke, Han and Chewbacca in their fierce war against the evil Empire. Battle treacherous aliens. Pilot two vehicles in high-speed, first-person, 3-D sequences. Fight your way through the wastelands of…
Super Star Wars is an adventure developed by Sculptured Software, released 1 November 1992 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
What Super Star Wars is
Super Star Wars is an adventure game developed by Sculptured Software and released in 1992. It was published by Disney Interactive Studios. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo Entertainment System and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Super Star Wars is a 1992 run and gun video game based on the 1977 film Star Wars, developed by LucasArts and Sculptured Software and published by JVC Musical Industries for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game features side-scrolling run and gun and platform gameplay, although it has stages which feature other challenges, such as driving a landspeeder or piloting an X-wing. It also features multiple playable characters with different abilities.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Star Wars series
Super Star Wars is the 20th of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Star Wars: X-Wing Tour of Duty - B-Wing in 1993. Its critic score of 75 is 4 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.
How it was received
Super Star Wars holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1992 averaged 67, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 65 votes.
What it launched against
Super Star Wars launched on 1 November 1992, within three weeks of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Shin Megami Tensei. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Shin Megami Tensei.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Super Star Wars yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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