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Odd list. X-Wing Alliance over the previous 3 titles in the series? No Super Star Wars(Empire/Jedi) titles on the list? No Star Wars Arcade? Star Wars Trilogy Arcade? Hell, where's LEGO Star Wars?

Yoda Stories was mediocre and Shadows of the Empire is being viewed through rose tinted fanboy glasses. I loved it at the time, but it was not a very good game. The fact that it was the first 3D SW game on consoles made it awesome, but everything else about it was very average.

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Tie Fighter (or even X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter) is not on that list, thus making it invalid

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agreed

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I didn't go to the actual list, but assumed they were including Tie Fighter in the same series/category as X-Wing. Not that that makes it right.

I guess having Jedi Knight II and Battlefront II on the list kind of ruins that theory though.

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Full Throttle was the best LucasArts game I ever played. Played it on my first pc back in the mid-90s, a packard bell. I think I remember they were going to do a sequel then it got cancelled. Bummer.

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A truly terrible list. Who is Hollywood.com and why should we care again? :p

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Best Game ever.

And to answer your question, you can definitely play Tie Fighter on XP (at least the cd version). I think I had to download a patch of some sort from the LucasArts website. I'm not sure about Vista or higher though.

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Yeah, it is an odd list. NES/gameboy SW over Super NES SW? No.

My college student union had the SW aracade and it was awesome.

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I never liked Shadows of the Empire. It's the first game I can recall trading in.

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The book is crap too. Don't believe the hype.

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I haven't really played a ton of the Star Wars games, other than KOTOR, the Jedi Knight games and Racer, but I loved LucasArts back in the SCUMM days. Zack McKraken, Full Throttle, Maniac Mansion, etc. Oh, and I'm pretty sure this one was pre-SCUMM, but Labyrinth was pretty awesome, particularly for when it came out.

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I remember liking the book (and the score CD). I have the book (and the score CD) somewhere in my room. Maybe I should give it a read after I finish re-reading The Hobbit later today.

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I couldn't get thru it. I read probably about 3/4 of it. It didn't read true to me, but I have that problem with most of the EU. Recycling dialogue that isn't meant to be recycled ("May the force be with you" or "I have a bad feeling about this" being examples of the latter) is my biggest pet peeve of the EU that I've read. It doesn't make the characters read truer, it makes me think the author is a hack.

Also Dash Rendar came off to me very much as a poor man's Han Solo. He only exists because Han Solo is frozen in carbonite, and they wanted someone to fill the scoundrel/smuggler role.

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Lucasarts made some great fucking games. This is sad news.

First Lucasarts game I ever played was The Eidolon on my C64. I never could beat it but I blew many hours trying. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXEwQCS4yow&sns=em

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the wonderful first person shooter, Outlaws. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a classic. How about Afterlife?

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Tie Fighter definitely the best. Rebel Assault was notable for being the first Star Wars game on CD Rom. Rebel Assault II had the first brand new Star Wars footage filmed since the Ewok movies. I never could get the sound to work on Dark Forces. :(

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Yeah, Fate of Atlantis was one of my favorites.

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Today's LucasArts is not the company that made those games. They're just a Star Wars game factory, and not a particularly good one. I have no objections with putting this dog down, it was time. I do feel bad for those who lost their jobs though.

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:thumbsup:

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Rogue Leader (the sequel on the Gamecube) should be on that list instead of Rogue Squadron. RS was too ambitious IMHO for the N64, with the limited draw distance being a problem. RL took that concept and put it on more capable hardware. It also had some cool extras like developer commentary.

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There I have to agree. About the only thing that I recall taking me out of the book was the obvious microwave (called a "cooker") reference. :lol:

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Yeah its sad that LA is no more, but how long has it been since they have been relevant? 1313 showed some promise, but it was no more than a tech demo. Force Unleashed had some interesting features and the sequel was a hastily shot out turd. It was a sad end to a great history.

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Worst part of the EU is when they drank "coffeine" for a time. Ugh...

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That list was Star Wars specific.

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Use DOSBox. It's available for free for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

I play all my old DOS games on my Mac with a DOSBox front end called Boxer. They run beautifully. (I also have 3 Roland MIDI devices for music, to replicate the experience I always wanted in the '80s and '90s but could never afford.)

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This is what I will always remember Lucasarts for:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iDksuGMYim...s1600/Lair.jpg

Did anyone else get the Lucasarts magazine? It had original Sam and Max strips in it that parodied other Lucasarts titles.