Full Super Star Wars series for VC

By Robert Purchese Published 17 September, 2009

Plus: arcade Golden Axe tomorrow.

Tomorrow's Wii and DS online refresher will be all about Star Wars, led by the addition of SNES game Super Star Wars to the Virtual Console store.

That game costs 800 Wii Points (approx £5.60/€8) and will be joined by SSW The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - as well as other LucasArts clasósics - over the coming weeks. Star Wars fever will spread to Mii and Everybody Votes Channels, too.

Also on Virtual Console tomorrow will be Golden Axe, the arcade version, for 900 Wii Points (approx £6.30/€9).

On WiiWare, meanwhile, will be Learning with the PooYoos: Episode 1 - a brain trainer for kids aged between three and six that haven't grasped reading properly. PooYoos costs 500 Wii Points (approx £3.50/€5): take it out of their piggy bank.

Finally, on DSiWare, will be MySims Camera, an application for 200 DSi Points (approx £1.80/€2). This offers the MySims characters as overlays for real pictures. You can animate them and manipulate them any way you like.

Also, the first Flipnote Studio animation by Wallace and Gromit animator Tim Ruffle - dubbed "The Sandwich Twins" - will be available tomorrow. This can be downloaded or watched on the Flipnote website.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • jonsaan #1 3 years ago

    I know many people who loved Super Star Wars, but for me it was never anything more than a frustrating sub par platformer. Sorry!

  • Darren #2 3 years ago

    Learning with PooYoos on the Wii?!? What kind of depraved toilet humour is this? :o

  • CallousB #3 3 years ago

    Now Lucasarts.. just make a New Super Star Wars for wiiware...using the pointer for force powers ala Lost Winds.

  • Red_Bool #4 3 years ago

    @jonsaan

    same here. I just found it way too frustrating to bother with (and back then I even was a real SW freak). Still, I have the original cart lying around somewhere...now I'm tempted to retry it :p

    That PooYoo thingy sounds interesting for my kid(s)
    Edited by Red_Bool at 17/09/09 @ 11:47

  • schnide #5 3 years ago

    I remember when this came out I didn't have a SNES, around the days when SSFII was £80, and Super Star Wars was the only game I wanted in the world.

    Landspeeder sections in Mode 7 graphics?! OMG!!

    I still think the game holds up pretty well, but the game format got tired by the time ROTJ came out. And you could say the same about the films.

    Meow!
    Edited by schnide at 17/09/09 @ 12:46

  • Fuser #6 3 years ago

    About time too! I bought 2000 Wii points ready for this 6 weeks ago when the yanks got it - I assumed that we'd get it the same day. How wrong I was......
    We get Scribblenauts later.
    And Layton later.
    Why? I ask you - why?????

    Bit off topic there.. ;)

  • Daryoon #7 3 years ago

    The Super Star Wars games are terrible in retrospect, but at the time they seemed like the BEST THING EVER. Well, at least the first one. And looking back, the NES SW was superior, with lots of non-linear exploration in the first half (I believe you didn't even have to find Obi-Wan, R2-D2 or C-3PO, and could steal the Millennium Falcon!).

    But I am curious to see what Super Phantom Menace et al would be like...

  • muscleblade #8 3 years ago

    The graphics in SSW was amazing at the time. The gameplay was alright but not on par with the looks.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #9 3 years ago

    Pod Racer on the N64 was indeed a lot of fun. I bought it once because I was bored but I would have never imagined how much time I would be spending with it.

  • peterfll #10 3 years ago

    ^

    Couldn't agree more actually, Pod Racer on the N64 was a really solid game - even better with the Ram Pack! Although it did get quite tough by the midway point.

    I think Super Star Wars was a marmite experience, even for those of us were seduced by the dark side (those mode 7 levels, the sound effects, the music). Deep down we knew it was heavily flawed thanks to iffy play mechanics and being rock-hard.

  • schnide #11 3 years ago

    Pod Racer on PC was amazing. Not the hardest game you'll ever play, but certainly a game with one of the best sense of speed I've ever found.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #12 3 years ago

    I've never played any of the SSW games. I had an Amiga back then, and was still in a feudal "console games suck" phase, but SSW was one of the few that made me jealous of SNES owners. Still, I'd rather get these on XBLA than Virtual Console (achievements, etc) - any chance LucasArts would release them on 360 or PS3, or are they Nintendo published/owned? Having said that, I think I've got 800 points spare so suppose I could use them up.

    Also, yes, Pod Racer (or Episode One Racer, technically) was indeed "made of win" as they say around these parts.
    Edited by Britesparc at 17/09/09 @ 17:25

  • IronCladChicken #13 3 years ago

    Shame it wasn't a virtual arcade Star Wars