Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

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68K plays 1992 #Action#Platform

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is an action-platform game based on the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back, released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992. It is the sequel to the original Star Wars game released the previous year, also on the NES.

It is the second of three video games released under the Empire Strikes Back title that were developed directly for home video game systems. It was preceded by a version for the Atari 2600 and succeeded by Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back for the Super NES.

From Wikipedia's article Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1992 video game), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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NESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
BZN
AXM
SelectShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

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Keyboard controls

NESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
BZN
AXM
SelectShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes BackNES

1.5 Wake me up when it's over

EGM 5/10, 5/10, 4/10, 4/10 · 1 review

What the reviews talk about

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What the critics said

  • A reviewer in Power Unlimited said the game was compared it to the previous Star Wars game calling it "mainly more of the same" while ultimately describing it as a "a fun game, although the worlds are very similar."

    — Power Unlimited, 1994

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1992 video game) article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • Giant Bomb true
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly 1992 5/10, 5/10, 4/10, 4/10

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 84/100 · 55 votes

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  1. 1.00+
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  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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