"Not to be confused with the non-super return."

I remember being quite fond of all three games in the “Super Star Wars” series when the Super Nintendo was still the latest and greatest. After-all, even to this day my favorite genre remains the 2D platformer. Because of this, it was especially jarring to pull “Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” out of my retro shelf only to find out my childhood memories were about to be shattered.

It’s amazing how much better games can appear through the rose-tinted glasses of our memories. Eight-year-old Jesse would like me to believe that Return of the Jedi is a flawless platformer on par with other greats in the genre. Eight-year-old Jesse is a filthy liar.

(more…)

When I was given the assignment of playing “Super Empire Strikes Back”, I was elated. I have always considered the Super NES run of action/platformers to be second only to the Knights of the Old Republic on my internal ranking of awesome Star Wars games and Empire (just like its cinematic counterpart) was the best of the three.

I remember throwing this game in from time to time and running through it in an afternoon. Apparently between the last time I played the game and today I have lost a step or two, because this game killed me in the face. (more…)

It is safe to say that “Super Star Wars” came out for the SNES at the perfect time during my youth. It was 1992, so I was about 12 years old. My friends and I were just starting to discover our love of the Star Wars films. We had all watched the movies growing up, but had not yet gone into that phase where we were obsessing over them.

One of us rented “Super Star Wars” and we were all hooked. We started delving more and more into the universe, picking up the expanded universe novels, which at the time were just starting to get off the ground. By the time “Super Return of the Jedi” came out in 1994, we were full fledged Star Wars nerds.

So how does “Super Star Wars” stack up now?

(more…)