LucasFilm re-releases old movie, LucasArts follows suit.

08 Feb, 2012, 17:07 | Posted by: jp-30 | Source: TouchArcade

In a surprise move LucasArts is re-releasing its old puzzle game "Pit Droids" on iOS devices this evening for US$1.99. Originally for PC and developed by LucasLearning, the game is a good fun diversion.

LucasLearning (in 1999) said:
In Star Wars® Pit Droids®, both kids who love math and those who don't will enjoy the challenging logic puzzles in this tile-based game. Increasingly complex puzzles engage students in sophisticated thinking as they explore the mathematics of attributes, geometry, sets and networks, while testing out multiple solutions to problems. Students can even build their own puzzles using a sophisticated puzzle design laboratory.

Will more games be dusted off from the archives and given a new lease of life on iPhones & iPads? We can only hope. Will they all tie in with The Phantom Menace? We can only hope not.

Oh, also 'Hai everyone'!

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Comment by: Shmargin | Posted 08 Feb, 2012, 23:16 | Quote
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Hey, that crappy looking game I had no interest in over a decade ago is out again! Now I can have no interest in it again.

Out of every Star Wars title Lucas has access too, why in the hell would you pick this one to rerelease to promote a movie. Especially when said movie is everyone's least favorite of the whole series.

Pit Droids is fun, and a perfect distraction on an iPhone or iPad. And probably not too difficult to port. I assume you haven't actually played it?

What game re-release would you have picked to tie in with the Phantom Menace re-release?

Id go with pod racer,

And since I wasn't interested in improving my math skills to impress mom at the time of that movies release, I would most definitely have not played a game released as Edutainment.

Pod Racer was by no means great, but I probably would have bought that one on the App store
Comment by: Shmargin | Posted 08 Feb, 2012, 23:12 | Quote
jp-30
Shmargin
Hey, that crappy looking game I had no interest in over a decade ago is out again! Now I can have no interest in it again.

Out of every Star Wars title Lucas has access too, why in the hell would you pick this one to rerelease to promote a movie. Especially when said movie is everyone's least favorite of the whole series.

Pit Droids is fun, and a perfect distraction on an iPhone or iPad. And probably not too difficult to port. I assume you haven't actually played it?

What game re-release would you have picked to tie in with the Phantom Menace re-release?

Id go with pod racer,
Comment by: Jennifer | Posted 08 Feb, 2012, 21:54 | Quote
It would be nice if they re-released Star Wars Episode I: Racer. I played that game like crazy on the Dreamcast. It's one of the few Star Wars games that I've played that I ever really enjoyed.
Comment by: jp-30 | Posted 08 Feb, 2012, 21:51 | Quote
Shmargin
Hey, that crappy looking game I had no interest in over a decade ago is out again! Now I can have no interest in it again.

Out of every Star Wars title Lucas has access too, why in the hell would you pick this one to rerelease to promote a movie. Especially when said movie is everyone's least favorite of the whole series.

Pit Droids is fun, and a perfect distraction on an iPhone or iPad. And probably not too difficult to port. I assume you haven't actually played it?

What game re-release would you have picked to tie in with the Phantom Menace re-release?
Comment by: Shmargin | Posted 08 Feb, 2012, 21:46 | Quote
Hey, that crappy looking game I had no interest in over a decade ago is out again! Now I can have no interest in it again.

Out of every Star Wars title Lucas has access too, why in the hell would you pick this one to rerelease to promote a movie. Especially when said movie is everyone's least favorite of the whole series.

It's like they're trying to remind us of how much we disliked it, and why we disliked it. The promotions team at Lucas must be awesome.
Comment by: Threepwood42 | Posted 08 Feb, 2012, 20:54 | Quote
I remember when I was little there was a time when every day I would come home from school and play Droidworks for a few hours, and I would tell my mom I was learning because it said learning on the box, even though I never did know what exactly I was learning... :P
Comment by: jp-30 | Posted 08 Feb, 2012, 17:44 | Quote
I'd buy Super Bombad Racing for the iPad! :-D
Comment by: Pedgey | Posted 08 Feb, 2012, 17:40 | Quote
We want Jabbas math palace!
Comment by: clone2727 | Posted 08 Feb, 2012, 17:29 | Quote
I was hoping for "Droid Works" though!

Or at least they should put The Phantom Menace PSX on the PSN.
Comment by: Jake | Posted 08 Feb, 2012, 17:29 | Quote
Does it have the same cool interactive music element of the original? I think Pit Droids' soundtrack was by Peter McConnell, and if I remember correctly the music would mix differently depending on what units were out in the puzzle space.

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