Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1985 video game) as it was not as fresh as the previous game. Additionally, it was sold as an upgrade kit, so arcade operators that had "Star Wars" running and getting steady incomes from it did not go for the upgrade. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1985 video game) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to the vector graphics "Star Wars" arcade game. It was released by Atari Games in 1985 as a conversion kit for the original game. As in "Star Wars", the player takes the role of Luke Skywalker in a set of battle sequences in a
Star Wars comics 2012, The Walt Disney Company announced that they would acquire Lucasfilm for $4 billion. In January 2014, it was announced that in 2015, the "Star Wars" comics license would return to Marvel Comics, whose parent company, Marvel Entertainment, Disney had purchased in 2009. Meanwhile, with the sequel film "" in production, most of the licensed "Star Wars" novels and comics produced since the originating 1977 film "Star Wars" were rebranded as "Star Wars Legends" and declared non-canon to the franchise in April 2014. Early reports in May 2014 suggested that Marvel would announce two new ongoing "Star Wars" comic series