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 sequel trilogy decided to end the saga as six films. This prevented him from developing a sequel trilogy during that time-frame. In an interview published in the February 1999 issue of "Vanity Fair", Lucas said: "When you see it in six parts, you'll understand. It really ends at part six. I never had a story for the sequels, for the later ones." In early May 2002, just before the worldwide release of "" and while Lucas was working on the script for "Episode III", rumors of "Star Wars" episodes VII, VIII, and IX were posted on the Internet. In reply, Lucas noted