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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Now transform your Star Wars games into a new adventure. The action is intensified in this conversion kit for your original Star Wars cabinet from Atari. Take the battle to the frozen planet of Hoth as Luke…

1 March 1985

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is an arcade developed by Atari Games, released 1 March 1985 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade and Atari ST/STE.

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What Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is an arcade game developed by Atari Games and released in 1985. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Now transform your Star Wars games into a new adventure. The action is intensified in this conversion kit for your original Star Wars cabinet from Atari. Take the battle to the frozen planet of Hoth as Luke and his rebel squadron takes down the Empire's ambush assault!
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Star Wars series

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is the sixth of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Droids: The White Witch in 1987.

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When did Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back come out?
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was released on 1 March 1985 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.

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