Super Star Wars SNES Trilogy | A Friday Night Arcade Retrospective
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- Looking back at the Star Wars Original Trilogy on Super Nintendo on this edition of Friday Night Arcade!
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I got Super Star Wars Christmas morning 1992 and I had beaten the game by that afternoon. Then I beat it about 2 dozen more times over the next several months. I had also gotten Super Mario Kart that same morning. Damn...Now THAT was a good Christmas.
Not gonna lie had to use all the cheat codes to film this footage this game is stupid hard.
I don't know many that would even play without cheats. This game is not for the light of heart in gaming.
I agree! I've been playing super star wars empire strikes back on a emulator and i'm having difficulty on the hoth level
ah it's ok this game is super hard
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Whew that makes me feel better. I could never make it past the first or second level in any of these damn things....
I was in highschool when these came out. I do in fact remember beating all 3 without cheat codes, but I also remember smashing my controller into the wall a few times. This would repeat itself when I got into Demons/Dark Souls.
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Owned them all, beat them all, and used cheat codes in every one of them hahaha. You're right though these games were incredibly hard. But damn were they fun especially being a huge star wars fan. I had to own them when I was a kid. The music and sound effects and the stage layouts really made you feel like you were in the star wars universe. Awesome games.
I think I remember the tap in codes being tediously long
how did you find cheats in New Hope?
@@952shadowman just look online. There's a bunch of codes
I never played them growing up. I had a Sega Genesis at the time. I played them later in life and I've still never beat them.
This was great to watch. I am on a nostalgia high to give these a try again. I agree with you though the games are fun but the difficulty takes away a lot of the fun for most. Game Genie is your friend with these bad boys.
give them a try again, and really learn how the games want you to play, and they're very beatable on easy once you learn them.(i'm no pro gamer by any means) well worth the time. they're more fun without game genie
@@Rodzilla97 If you play these games enough, you don't need the game genie., even on Jedi level. ;)
ROBOCOP 2!!!!
ED209.
Still laughing
As a kid in the 90s this was one of our only ways of having fun with star wars on the console. Beat all 3, but we only ever beat ROTJ once - the flying out of the death star was so hard!
Heck yeah, it's so good to see someone give these the props they're do instead of just whining about the difficulty. The games WERE hard as nuts, don't get me wrong, and I DID cheat to fully clear them initially as a kid, but man... the visuals, the audio, the way they actually worked exclusively with stuff that's technically directly FROM the movies (even if stretched) for all the content, the amazing uses of mode 7, all the playable characters... it was just larger than life as a little kid and still some of my favorite Star Wars video game insomuch as capturing the essence of the original trilogy, if overly bombastically, but that's just what I wanted at the time and still hits a good spot to this day.
Amen.
I only ever had about 8 SNES games but they had to include this trilogy. I loved them so much I never EVER thought of them as hard. I was just immersed until the end. The vehicle levels felt entirely like a reward for making it through the side scrollers, which was why ROTJ was a disappointment: it was the only one whose flying levels were vastly inferior than it's predecessors. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Dangit, now I have to try these hard-ass games again. I have them all on SNES (and they're some of the few I have in the boxes and have the Nintendo Power magazines for). So, I guess finding this video is as good of an excuse as any to ignore some adulting duties today and bust these out. Happy Gaming!
I got the first two. Maybe used codes from Nintendo Power. Didn’t feel like playing them again so traded them at store after winning.
I struggled finish these, even with a Game Genie.
Once you reach "Land of the Banthas" in the first game, it _really_ gets good.
The music and gameplay reaches a fever pitch, and the level immediatley after is just a pure jedi power fantasy as compensation for all the bullsh*t you had to go through to get to that point.
I remember being blown away by these games at the time but they were soooo frustrating to play. I had to keep going back to them though.
I had Super Empire as a kid and it drove me completely insane. I eventually beat it but not without a whole lot of yelling and controller throwing.
I'd been playing computer games for a couple years. When I saw games on the SNES I had to get Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back to play on my brother's system. Star Wars was really tough. I remember after winning not being that interested in going back to play them again with a different character, though.
I could never get past the inside of the Sandcrawler, but loved the landspeeder level and bought it again just for that. I’ll have to check out some of those cheat codes.
Played them all, beat them all, loved them all!!!
Leia in both the bounty hunter and slave getup can use a charged weapon attack that deals a ton of damage to enemies.
I played and completed A New Hope and Return of the Jedi but not Empire...not yet. RotJ was a great game! I loved the flying to freedom out from the Death Star's exploding core spot at the end - it's good once you get the hang of it. These just take some work. I hate it when people cry over challenging games, easy games suck!
The first time I played Super Empire and Super Jedi, I didn't have the manual and had no idea about the Force Powers. I played and beat the game without using any. After doing that, playing with them makes the game SO easy.
Now all we need is Episode VII-IX done in the Super Star Wars style....
Just plays as Rey and she will just obliterate all the enemies.
Loved these games and Indiana jones greatest adventures, also by lucas arts
The first game was my introduction to the Star Wars universe. It is a hard game but beatable.
Super Star Wars was the first video game I ever beat. Good times.
Love your narration! Are you ready to run a big channel? Bc I have a feeling that as soon as more people start seeing your videos they are going to be all over ya!
That's very kind of you to say - thank you.
Friday Night Arcade thanks... But I still can't believe you haven't placed Zelda! *Gasp*!
I have the first one and damn the sandcrawler stage is just so much to handle at the beginning of the game
Super Star Wars is my favorite. Empire and Jedi are amazing but the difficulty level really turns me off. Super stars wars just has a good balance in my opinion...
what I love is that this is the original trilogy created by George Lucas adapted to video games , not those horrible Lego star wars video games and all the other star wars video games released this pas 20 years and that have nothing to do with the original trilogy . I finished the 3 games using an emulator and save states , it allows you to restart the game at any place you saved . I didn't have to use any cheats.
I wish someone does a remake of the snes trilogy in 3D , not LEGO characters or big head or cartoonist style
I lived and breathed theses games back in the day.
I’ve beaten Star Wars on NES and Game Gear.
Super Star Wars on snes.
Super Empire strikes back on snes.
And all but the very last stage (flying OUT of the Death Star) of Super return of the Jedi.
I didn't play any of these until I got a copy of _Super Empire Strikes Back_ for Christmas REAL LATE. Like, after the N64 came out (I think I had my Dreamcast too). I think it was just like, my parents figuring that I was into Star Wars, and the local K-B Toys was shutting down so might as well nab a bunch of stuff while it was cheap. So I got, like, _Rogue Squadron_ and _Jedi Power Battles_ too (thank God) that Christmas. But I did keep coming back to try SESB - it just looked awesome so I wanted to play it. And I remembered Nintendo Power previews talking about LJN's hard work with the titles, doing things like referencing frames from the movie to create the lightsaber fight animations, and using unused concept art to create enemies and expand the story with locations the gang never visited in the film (LJN generally may have sucked balls, but damn did they put a lot of effort into the _Super Star Wars_ games, and it shows!). But yeah; holy shit is that game not fun.
I remember being just so baffled at the "wind currents" in the early Hoth Stages - the thought had occurred to me that maybe that was what those were, but I was convinced they were in actuality just some shitty "random Force jump" things because there's no visual feedback as to what they are. There's no wind lines to show off currents, for example, and they're SO HARD to hit consistently. Even when you know they're there, you have to jump and double-jump constantly to try and get 'em to trigger. It was crazy, so I figured it was their dumb attempt to show how Force-sensitive - but unrefined - Luke has become and then he'll get his powers under control when you get to Dagobah. Made sense to me, haha! I also remember just how tense it would be whenever I was making progress because I knew it wouldn't last - something would come by and kick my ass and all that hard work would be for naught, lol. The farthest I ever got was the one stage in Cloud City where Han Solo is rescuing Chewie or C3PO or something (maybe I picked Han Solo because he was available and he's way cooler than Chewbacca) and inexplicably you face a giant probe droid as a boss. Thing destroyed me instantly, and I haven't picked it up since :P
I _did_ eventually play the GAME BOY version of _Super Return of the Jedi_ though, and that game's difficulty was nowhere NEAR as insane as the SNES versions (despite it _being a port;_ like, they're trying to translate/remix the 16-bit game for the Game Boy, complete with downscaled assets from the SNES version. It's not an entirely original game. Even the behind-the-back speeder bike chase level made it in instead of trying for something more GB-friendly, like an isometric stage or something), so I *did* complete _that..._ but it just felt so hollow, y'know? lol
Despite all that, I still love the presentation of these titles (AND Factor 5's similar _Indiana Jones: Greatest Adventures_ for SNES). They have such good art and presentation for the hardware, and the ambitious mix of gameplay felt like perfect precursors to what _Shadows of the Empire_ would do in the N64 launch window, which is a crazy level of ambition for an SNES game. I can't think of too many other SNES that combined sidescrolling levels with Mode 7 stages and sprite scaling stages and just whatever they thought they could do that would capture a scene in the movie well. I wish Disney/LucasArts would contract a modern studio to make some new Super Star Wars games. Someone like Wayforward (Shantae, Mighty Switch Force, Contra 4) could freakin' make AMAZING faux-retro modern Super Star Wars games in this style for _The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi_ and _Rise of the Skywalker_ - AND they would make ones that wouldn't be ludicrously difficult too! That would be nice (^-^)
2:47 No actually, I did not know that the Jawas were working with Kraid.
Man these were great games. I played them all, but only beat (without cheat codes, but on easy) Star Wars and Return of the Jedi. Empire was pure insanity. never made it off of Hoth.
I recently picked up a copy of a new hope and it is very difficult, but it kept me coming back to it. It was too fun. I still have to try empire and Jedi, but I reccomend at the very least the first one
@FridayNightArcade I really must come to this channel more often... I did play all three games, They were WAY TO HARD for me... LOL! But that said, They are Brilliant games!
I just subscribed to your channel because I saw the ad on another channel that you made. Just thought I'd let you know
Hey thanks buddy.
In Super Star Wars, you don't die when the time runs out. You just won't get a time bonus. :)
Pity this video wasn't made in 2020. He could've made the obvious "Mandalorian attacking the Sandcrawler" joke.
One thing you failed to mention is Super Empire is missing the character selection ability, though it was necessary to stick with the film's storyline.
True. But full disclosure I was using cheat codes like a madman to get the footage for all of these. I think if you're using the debug cheat for Empire it still lets you do character select throughout the game.
I've beaten Super Star Wars and Super Empire Strikes Back, but I still have yet to play through Jedi.
I only had the first one as a kid. I managed to get to the Sandcrawler on my own but never made it to the end without cheats. I remember using the one to fall through the floor to get through the Sandcrawler but after that I mostly used the “invincible“ cheat to get to the end of the level or I skipped the entire level. Also I thought the trench run was way too hard so I skipped that as well to see the final cutscene 🙈 even though the game was too difficult for me, I really loved it and played it over and over again.
I remember renting Super Return and getting alllll the way to the final Boss Palpatine and never being able to beat him fast enough before his lightning would destroy all the platforms and make it impossible to beat him.
Fond memories trying to beat it though because I never did. Game was hard as BALLS
Another very good, well spoken, well articulated review. You keep this up and you'll have more subs and no time.
That's very kind of you to say - thank you.
I had Super Star Waes as a kid and used to beat it without cheat codes. Can't do that nowadays anymore, though haha
I played Star Wars on my Sega Game Gear, It was so flaming difficult I got so frustrated that I head butted my Game Gear and shattered the screen. That was an expensive lesson learned. From that point, if I ever got frustrated with a game, I'd just turn it off and not turn it back on till I had calmed down. I believe that if I ever owned those games, I would have a lot of time outs.
These have been my all-time favorite video-games for a reason. The addiction towards beating this trilogy was obviously apparent. (Back as a kid.) Yes beating "Super Empire Strikes Back" REQUIRES Game-Genie.
"Super Return of The Jedi" was BY-FAR the easiest. All you needed to do is pick the strongest character according to the weapon-of-choice. For example, to "Escape the Sail-Barge" pick Han-Solo to obliterate the slimy worm-lord. All you got to do is blast him with the said blaster.
I played through the first two games (many years after their original release) and I don't think I had access to any cheat codes (but it certainly wasn't easy). I cannot recall if I ever played or finished Jedi. I thought I also played Star Wars and Empire on the NES, but I don't recall ever seeing a Jedi game on the NES.
As a kid, I got to the last level (of ROTJ) on normal difficulty....but I could never beat it. Really fun games though. I just wish SESB & SROTJ were on the PS4.
I wish I could live in 16 bit cloud city, forever.
I was able to beat super the empire strikes back without cheats, but it took a long time. Didn't play the other 2 games
I Grew Up Playing The 1ST Super Star Wars Game.
i love these 3 games. i've beat them all on easy, and they're not that crazy hard once you learn how to play them(go slow, and farm for health and try and always keep the best blaster weapon). they're not anywhere near as hard as most shmups. i'm terrible at that genre of games(but i like a few for sure). anyways, big thumbs up to this trilogy, really fun games
Every SNES Star Wars game makes me quit after I get to the first boss. My time is worth something.
GOOD UNMENTIONED MATERIAL! Love this stuff on SNES!
Grew up with them, never have I beaten one.
@0:01 Ahh, i’m blind! So many pixels! Who will be my eyes? 👨🏻🦯➡️👨🏻🦯➡️👨🏻🦯➡️ @0:34 I was super young playing that Empire Strikes Back on Atari - even as a young kid i was frustrated that it didn’t end, it was an everlasting side-scroller. 😴
I did beat all the three in Jedi difficulty when I was young... I doubt I can do it again unless I spend a lot of time into it...
Loved these games. I remember beating empire strikes back and return of the jedi without cheats. Never beat the 1st game though. That game was stupid hard. lol
i'm sorry but the gameplay for inside the deathstar is amazing for a 16 bit!!!
I own the first Super Star Wars game on my Super Nintendo that I got an auction in 2003.
Wow I have been searching for a channel like this......Great ad by the way
Hey thanks!
Great games, these were
Never used cheat codes! Beat all three! Great Games! Hold up well!..through the test of time!
I thought i sucked at gaming as a kid because of games like this. I don't think i ever got passed the first level of empire strikes back. Typically on a game like this i will practice with game genie and then beat it regular. Havent tried to beat these yet but they're on the list...i beat Spiderman and xmen on genesis recently and that game was hard af
There's no shame in at least using 99 lives from the debug menu cheat code. That first level is ridiculous.
Wow what an amazing job on the video Aaron. How the (BLEEP) do you make this look so easy????? Well, I know I'm going to get flack for this, but I'm not a fan of anything Star Wars. I do know stuff however, basically the routine pop culture stuff, but this was done splendidly my friend. Thank you for the hard work on these vids. (We don't care about using cheats for the purpose of the video, it kicked ass). Keep up the superb work.
Understandable - you're probably incredibly fatigued by Disney taking over SW and basically putting it on the Marvel movie assembly line pace as am I. I loved the original trilogy but was totally disenfranchised by The Last Jedi. Fun fact - this video was originally supposed to come out in December along with Episode VIII, but I hated TLJ so much that despite being 65-70% finished with this, I shelved it and didn't finish it until a few weeks ago.
I Never played a Star Wars game on a console until the N64, until then we had Sega Genesis witch had no Star Wars games.
I did play them, but I could never could beat them.
Nobody did. I cheated like a mofo 😎
All three of these took awhile for me to beat on Jedi mode with out cheat codes
Been playing all 3 on the legends flashback. Yes they are hard
What is the legends pack. is it on ps4
@@NiiKEMAN legends flashback retro machine at Walmart
Don't feel bad about using cheats on this one, man. One has to keep their sanity.
I've got certain "rules" that I go by when I'm using cheats... I try to maintain the spirit of the game and challenge, but at the same time, a game like this that has no save feature and I'm like, in my 30s and am married and have you know, social commitments lol... mostly I just use the 99 lives feature so I can at least keep trying the level without having to start back from the beginning after 2 or 3 deaths.
Preaching to the choir man. I completely understand. 🙂
This game was ridiculously hard...
I played Empire Strikes Back on Atari soooo much
I finished this SSW game when I was a kid, I was a bad ass... I did with out any codes
Best Trilogy on ANY Gaming Platform!
Like idk they where hard as fuck and I never got far as a kid.. BUT.. Turn of the lights in your room, sit on the floor (and it has to be carpeded) turn on your crt TV and orginal snes and the ambiance in the room will be something Totaly unique..
I played this game on PS4
Consistently have loved the "Super SW Trilogy" for #SuperNintendo, especially Empire Strikes Back. Too bad it hasn't yet been updated.
these were def an upgrade from the nes sw games, but empire strikes was really hard for me I remember
Empire is just brutal - there's no way you could get through it without the debug mode or if you're like... an alien.
whats debug mode? and I'm assuming that's only something available on emulations of the game, but also when I played it I was like 10a nd had no chance of prob even getting past the first level
Nah it's just a cheat code you can use on emulation or original hardware... You can just enter a menu for level select and keep reloading your lives back to 99.
I bought Super Star Wars purely because I love the films and I couldn't believe how tough that game is. It's a great challenge though. Definitely an achievement if you can beat it.
This was brutal as a rental because you just weren't gonna get very far unless you happen to have the Nintendo Power issue that had the codes. Always amazed at legit speedruns of this game.
Love this channel so much :)
Thank you for the kind words 🙏
Rented and beat all these back in the day. Definitely used cheat codes too though 😅 Was able to beat the final level in Return Of The Jedi a few times, damn that level was unforgiving.
Super Star Wars is really cool but very hard. They did a great job
He was right about jumping being a problem in the first.
Back in the day, the one thing I felt was missing from these games was a password or save feature.
The Game Wizard needs no saves or passwords!!!!!!
Played them as a teen. I also have them on my Wii tganks to tge virtual console.
played too as a kid. have on the wii thanks to the homebrew channel
I love this trilogy of games. The only thing I disagree with is the last mission of Return of the Jedi. I think it pushed the SNES and was a got closing moment. I can pound through Super Star Wars and Return with few deaths. Empire to me feels hard as hell on Hoth, medium on Dagonah, and easyish on Bespin. The Vader fight takes a lot of focus, and takes a long time. I would say Super Star Wars 8/10, Empire 9.5/10, Jedi 8.5 or 9/10. Lofty scores for the SNES. Jumping control is a bit stretched on the first one, but fixed on the other 2. My big issue with Super Star Wars is probably when you die late in a level. You have to resume with just the laser and the Mutant Wamp Rat and Jawenko are insanely difficult without at least the 2nd or 3rd power up on the pistol.
harder than ghouls n ghosts. way harder
They put the first one on PS4 but, as far as I know, TESB and ROTJ weren’t. Disney, I’m waiting on you guys.
Good lord this game is hard.
the bosses are awesome!
After the first Star Wars, I knew JVC had gone super cheap on the insane difficulty, so Game Genie to the rescue! Without Game Genie, it's not fun at all. With Game Genie, they're all good fun.
Owned and loved NES versions but they only ever made New Hope and Empire. I loved cause they were my first Star Wars games. Also only got three lives so had to be perfect. I owned super Star Wars and beat it. I borrowed my friends copies of the other two. I just never was a fan.
Best Death Star run PC X-Wing and I’m just getting to it on Rouge Squadron after 20 years on GameCube.
I think the person who did the music for batman returns would've done the music better
You should have more subs
That's very kind of you to say - thank you.
Did you like Solo?
You know, I'm probably not going to go. May check it out when it comes to Netflix but eh... was pretty disenfranchised with TLJ to be honest. Went to the movies today but saw Deadpool 2 instead. I stand by my decision lol. Did you end up seeing Solo and if so, what did you think?
Friday Night Arcade I did, enjoyed it. And I’m not the biggest Star Wars fan.
Cool - may have to check it out then. Glad you liked it.
It was good
I wonder why they have never made this movie trilogy again on newer consoles and i don't mean remaking the SNES games but with today's technology in gaming we could have epic star wars videogames following the original movie plots.
Agreed. I really wish there was just a modernized game based on the OT.
@@FridayNightArcade well if Disney catches on to what fans want, they can give us what we want and make tons of money as well. But maybe after our generation is gone and the new ones have no fondness for the original then maybe they'll do something which is what a lot of companies do, too little too late.
aside from lego
@@zerpblerd5966 Lego games are fun and awesome but i meant something more like modern graphics in huge open world type game with the Star wars original trilogy plot.
@@greyfox4577 I understood you, and was contributing to what you meant in a way
I personally don't really care about graphics and new games, and, while I admit I had a little bit of fun with some of the lego games back in the day, actually am pretty against them in theory as a whole and would just prefer that crap to not exist
as far as good star wars games, I'm happy with my KotOR 1 and 2 and Jedi Knight/Acadamy games to scratch the itch when I want, and replaying the actual plots of the movies is dum
Oh yeah 😎
I played all three back in the day, hard as all fks! I used a Game Genie....not my proudest moments lol
There's no shame lol.... it was worth doing just to get to the "good levels" like the Death Star levels in the first one.
I'm not gonna lie...When I first got the game I was disappointed when I beat it and never saw the trash compactor level that I had seen a picture of in an issue of EGM right before the game was released . So I though maybe it was because I beat it on easy...I changed the difficulty to Brave and beat it again. Still no Trash Compactor level! So I played it on Jedi and tried and tried and tried until finally I beat the game, and guess what?!? Still no Trash Compactor level! I looked up codes and found nothing. I looked up Game Genie codes and still nothin'...Years later I finally found evidence of the existence of the Trash Compactor level that apparently was removed from the game before it was completed. I don't know why, but when I first saw the picture in the magazine that was the one level that really stuck out and I couldn't wait to play it. I would've rather had that level than the whole Sandcrawler exterior/interior thing.
Whoa... I had no idea there was a missing level. Thanks for sharing! I wonder why it got cut? That would have been way better than the stupid sandcrawler level.
@@FridayNightArcade This is the reason as per Wikipedia: "There was a trash compactor level that was deleted from the game due to lack of cartridge space.[7] An image was published in an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly around the time of the game's release."
Figures.
‘Episode IV’ in 1992? Anyone else can explain that? Thanks!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yous the boss, Luke?
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