When assaulted with contemporary games that are aggressively mediocre, it is understandable that Star Wars fans would prefer to reminisce about the halcyon days when, say, the Super Star Wars trilogy for the SNES was proffering some highly decent side-scrolling translations of the classic movies.
The folks at NowGamer were struck by such nostalgia and were inspired to write a feature about these 16-bit gems, and what really makes it awesome is that they thought to pursue the games' producer and lead designer Kalani Streicher for some reflections. As a result the article contains all sorts of great background info, and Streicher even expresses the desire to return to the series some kind of way, if LEC would ever be interested. Take a look.
Source: NowGamer
Gabez
Wasn't there some talk of a C3-P0 adventure game? Not sure where I read that. It's not in the FOA Secret History interview where I thought it might be.
You might be thinking of the Boba Fett adventure game. That was covered in The Dig Secret History, because the story behind that was it was an attempt by the artists of Version 1 of The Dig to salvage their backgrounds by re-purposing them for a Boba Fett adventure, the line of thinking being that there was all this great art for an alien planet and the context could simply be changed to Star Wars. Ultimately management balked at the idea of Boba Fett carrying his own game (I guess this was before his popularity exploded) and all the art was ditched.
The C-3PO game I don't think ever got past the talking stage, and as far as I know the only information on it is what is reiterated in this interview: it was considered, and Barwood was at the helm.
As for the P n' C Star Wars game, I'd actually never heard of either the Boba Fett or C3P0 titles. Makes me wonder what a crossover with the SW license and the Sierra Lite game mechanics of "The Dig" might have turned out like...
Gabez
Wasn't there some talk of a C3-P0 adventure game? Not sure where I read that. It's not in the FOA Secret History interview where I thought it might be.
Melancholick
Okay, what in the he... has anybody ever heard anything else about this?
"Lucasfilm had previously shied away from entering Star Wars territory for its gaming releases, the nearest it had come being an abandoned attempt at a point-and-click adventure from Hal Barwood, designer of Indiana Jones And The Fate of Atlantis. "
"Lucasfilm had previously shied away from entering Star Wars territory for its gaming releases, the nearest it had come being an abandoned attempt at a point-and-click adventure from Hal Barwood, designer of Indiana Jones And The Fate of Atlantis. "