Hello everybody this is ricardo and welcome to more retro gaming on the
atari st in my box the disks from at the attic after all these years I found
Return of the Jedi and the disc still works after all this time this is a
slightly different game from the other Star Wars games we saw as a hero which
will all vector graphic on wireframe games a more pictorial game a long way
away from what the film look like granted but this type of graphics I
think lends itself to a younger audience different methods and different modes
the assets scrolling assault where you would dodge logs and other projectiles
but still looking true to what the arcade game with the time look like you
also take control of the Millennium Falcon flying through the Death Star's
to superstructure and then after that after many flipping back and forth you
can take control of millenium falcon and x-wings in the salt on Star Destroyers &
Tie Fighters so let's get this game loaded up so look it straight away
you've got a bit of artwork that depicts the return of the jedi you with all the
action there luke skywalker darth vader though they don't actually appear in the
game at that star destroyers speeder bike and a half-built destr all good
stuff and quintessential returns the Jedi
so the graphics very indicative of the time and three levels of difficulty
we're going to go for easy because hey why not this is a demonstration after
all the sampling there now of Darth Vader and here we are on the speeder
bikes but Star Wars Return of the Jedi right is a 1984 are taken by Atari and
the follow-up start we said the other Star Wars games and the Empire Strikes
Back which were vector graphic as opposed to what we see in there which is
raster graphics so home post release of the arcade game released by do mark
software for the amstrad CPC the ZX Spectrum Atari ST and Commodore 64 and
the Amiga in 1988 so the player as you can see takes control of three different
vehicles in stages based upon some seasons of switcher the July film
gameplay is a three quarter I symmetrical projected perspective and is
broken into several stages although I do find it when we get to the space battles
a bit distracting where you flick back and forth between the attack on a thur
destroyer and whatever is going on inside the Death Star or on the forest
moon of Endor in the first stage of you sing you're a speeder bike in the Ewok
village this stage sees you with the Millennium Falcon the pilot of
millennium falcon after destroyers the second death star flying through the
superstructure dodging and shooting TIE fighters as you go and then to finally
shoot the reactor which I fail to do on this attempt the next level then returns
you to the speeder bike and the speeder bike action we should go through the
motions again as you can see the game is loading here we are level two back on
those speeder bikes a little bit quicker this time as well you know you can still
round the speeder bikes off the screen and shoot with your desk giggling laser
mounted on the speeder bike I found the best way of getting a bit of extra fun
out of it it's usually environment to kill the stormtroopers on those speeder
bikes ramming them into trees random off-screen going through logs that have
been placed on level two for example like you can fly through that the
stormtroopers can't match going through traps where the Ewoks are set with logs
on either side that will crush them when they come together or as you can see
there too he walks holding up a piece of rope that the stormtroopers go through
and then get carotid as they apply to exceed obviously try and avoid crashing
into trees because that would be hazardous for your health so a little
bit quicker this time though the end result in the end completion graphics
for this hard thing when you do get the Ewok village it's exactly the same you
know there is no difference there there are only three major levels through this
i would say or four major levels through this and you know it's a bit an
inquiring I think the other Star Wars games with the vector graphics were
emptied better this being recipe so we've gone to the end and the Ewok
village and the bonus for phase one with a real 10,000 10,000 points 10,000 Ewoks
10,000 watt just 10,000 there you go now it takes us on to as I mentioned the
aps-c level we're using shrimp or dodged the log that are thrown down towards
your instant ft also the EU octave is throwing rocks at yourselves we haven't
worked out that you're on their side and is meant to be piloted by Chewbacca it
end clicks like an engine very irritatingly to a little bit of a space
shooter left with the Millennium Falcon and x-wing fighters in a in a ring
former then you're back again to your agst scrolling up the screen dodging
those those laws that have grown down against you dodging other piles of loss
and then as you progress up through bit level
you're then going to be put on to the spacing the dead you can shoot the
shuttle you can shoot our Thai fighters now you see it rather imitating leakages
back to the ATM sea level again but you can do some rapid firing so you're
actually pretty unlucky to get hit by one of those logs at this stage in the
game we've been up through the screen now the more than likely going to be
presented with yet another switch back to the space battle mode as you can see
nothing's happening represented here with 2 80 s see if the shoot and take
one out oh look there's a pile of logs I don't know how quickly well this kid in
the arcades but here we are we're back to a space battle and we seem to have
lost one of our wingman it then switches back to the 80 s T again we can't be too
far a lot and they have Han Solo now he's logged fitting in and blown up the
entire bunker the Empire has been thwarted everybody look at that it was
that easy so now we're into the Millennium Falcon States flying through
the superstructure now it's a few obstacles here not only tie fighters
whereas the Minsk and trees will fall on the Millennium pockets if you're too
slow and you just see the idea to circumvent this is other to avoid them
altogether which I didn't do for a second time move out the way like I said
or as you approach them speed up now it's left to right scrolling motion you
can still bash those Tie Fighters or tie interceptors out the way as you see I
expedia them as I went to that country and the end result of this is not only
to destroy the reactor you're just coming up the very food here it is and
we have weave shop it but it revert is the action again we
Stan reverses the controls and emotion and it is the the death of that desta is
following you so the death star flame of destruction is following this through
now as we attempt to get out dodging those Tie Fighters and we're getting
faster and faster and I crashed you don't get a chance again to a play the
level unfortunately when it puts you back into the position where you go
through the speeder bike mission again again slightly faster more adversaries
few more traps as well to avoid now it's important to mention a bit isn't I must
stress isn't an emulator for an image this is a disc that was taught thanks
running on my Atari ST no one is more surprised than me after all ages I mean
I brought the machine i think back in nineteen eighty-eight 2017 now you know
that's a good few years and what you think about it these things are built to
last now I've taken the tumble inside that hollowed-out log so a good game I'm
not to enroll it over the first person pilot views that you get with the other
sir war games and Empire Strikes Back which I mentioned with vector graphics
but nonetheless a worthy game I think of the era and stands up pretty well
against its arcade counterpart which you can also see play in your own home I've
been Ricardo and thanks for watching