The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1985 rail shooter video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades. Based on the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back, the game is a sequel to Atari, Inc.'s 1983 arcade game Star Wars, and was originally released as a conversion kit for said game. As in Star Wars, the player takes the role of Luke Skywalker in a set of battle sequences from a first-person perspective. The game features the Battle of Hoth and the subsequent escape of the Millennium Falcon through an asteroid field.
The Empire Strikes Back was Atari's third Star Wars arcade game, and the second to use vector graphics, having been preceded by the raster graphics game Return of the Jedi in 1984. Home ports of The Empire Strikes Back were released by Domark for the Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and Amiga in 1988.
The Empire Strikes Back was Atari's third Star Wars arcade game, and the second to use vector graphics, having been preceded by the raster graphics game Return of the Jedi in 1984. Home ports of The Empire Strikes Back were released by Domark for the Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and Amiga in 1988.
Year: 1985
Company: Atari Games
Genre: Simulation
Platform: Arcade
How to play:
- V: INSERT COIN 🪙
- Enter: START GAME ▶️
- Arrow keys: MOVE ↔️
- X: FIRE 1 🔥 / Turbo (in racing games)
- Z: FIRE 2 / Jump 🔥
- R: Accelerate 🚀 (in racing games)
- Tab: Brake 🛑 (in racing games)
Note: Some games may have different controls.