Commodore 64 remake of Atari 2600 classic Empire Strikes Back #MayThe4thbewithyou #MayThe4th #StarWars
Back in 1982, The Parker Brothers released their first game, The Empire Strikes Back. The game was available on two popular gaming consoles at this time, the Atari 2600 and the Intellivison. The gameplay was pretty much the same on both machines, you flew the snowspeeder around on the planet of Hoth and fought huge AT-ATs. The Parker Brothers did create a game for the C-64 in 1983, but it was more similar to the vector game you could play on the arcades, and it did not have the name “Empire Strikes Back” in the title.
40 years after the Atari and Intellivision games were released, Megastyle is now proud to present to you: The Commodore 64 fan version of the original Parker Brothers game “Empire Strikes Back”. We have tried to remake the Atari 2600 version into a Commodore 64 version, but also added our own touch to the game.
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