May the 4th be with you! It’s May, and the Obligatory Movie Game Podcast is ready to pick off some womp rats, starting with the 1991 New Hope adaptation for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Even though the difficulty level is harsh (even for the NES), and some of the iconic villains are traded for thrilling adversaries such as the tractor beam generator, the game takes the player through the events of the original Star Wars, from the search for R2-D2 on Tatooine, to the climactic trench run. The familiar music rendered into scrumptious chip tunes, combined with the glorious 8 bit graphics give the game undeniable charm as the player takes on all manner of alien scum and stormtroopers as Luke, Leia and Han.
0:00:00 Intro
0:10:06 IMDB Dive
0:27:30 Where We’re Coming From
0:36:12 Game Talk (Context)
0:42:17 Plot
1:39:43 Characters
1:55:50 Setting
2:01:32 Rate/Recap/Recommend