Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1993 run and gun game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the second game in the "Super Star Wars" trilogy and is based on the 1980 film "The Empire Strikes Back". The original Super NES game was released in 1993. The game was followed by a sequel based on the next film in the "Star Wars" series, "". "Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" was re-released on the Virtual Console in North America on August 24, 2009 and in the PAL
Star Wars expanded to other media considered canonical within the franchise would be the primary episodic films, and and . The announcement called these works "the immovable objects of "Star Wars" history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align." It was also made clear that a planned "Star Wars" sequel trilogy, and subsequent works developed within the restructured canon, would not be based on "Legends" material but could possibly draw from it. There was some fan backlash against this decision, with one group successfully campaigning to buy a billboard pleading for Lucasfilm to continue the original "Expanded Universe" separately from the new