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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1991 video game)

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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991, following a similar game based on the original Star Wars film.

This is the second of three video games based on The Empire Strikes Back 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 SNES.

A "port," or conversion, of this game was released for the Nintendo Game Boy. That product was reprinted and distributed by several publishers over the course of three years.

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Title
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Developer
Lucasfilm Games
Sculptured Software, Inc.
Publisher
JVC
Released
December 1991
Genre
2D Action Platformer
Modes
Single player
Platforms
Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Game Boy
Producers
Kalani Streicher
Designer
Mike Ebert
Kalani Streicher
Programmer
Ken Grant
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