SNES Longplay [152] Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

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A LONG TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY! PART 2!
This is the longplay of Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, also known the Super Empire Strikes Back, the run and gun game for the Super Nintendo released in 1993.
It is the second game in the Super Star Wars trilogy and is based on the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back. The game follows as a direct result of its predecessor (Super Star Wars), which was one of the hardest games of his time. Super Empire Strikes Back includes passwords system and some more detailed stages in Mode 7. The controls are similar to the first game, but feature a double-jump and this release Luke has his lightsaber and a pistol, Han Solo can shoot grenades and Chewie has the Spin Attack (and some frames of invincibility, hehehe). Surely this is an evolution of the previous game, the ship stages are more detailed (the phase of asteroids I consider one of the most difficult and painful to pass) and the graphics are more beautiful. No doubt an epic game and one of the few good games based on movies. Played on Jedi Difficult with core improvements in cutscenes and sounds (Bizhawk) and all the Jedi powers were collected on Dagobah! May be force be with you! -
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[@spiritofzen7022]

The sense of 3D and openness on the hoth level was and still is quite impressive for a 16bit game

[@gokushkameha-ha-ha9344]

This whole game is impressive they mimicked the doom engine for flight

[@travisdonaldstanley6420]

Agreed. I had seen like it before.

[@commscan314]

@@gokushkameha-ha-ha9344 No, it's more like Super Mario Kart, there's only one polygon, and it's the plane below the sprites.

[@jasonmadore9764]

Agreed

[@EvtheNev]

Kids these days think Dark Souls was tough? Try playing this as a kid!! This game was hard as hell.

[@IamaDinosaur]

Not if you play megaman!

[@moesyzslak2939]

I lost my leg you are correct it was hard but once mastered watchout

[@somacruz7759]

This game on Jedi difficulty is a nightmare 0__0

[@grtdebater]

I remember getting this game as a Christmas present and spending so much time trying to beat it after school. The closest I got was the Hoth Base level. Such a challenging game.

[@cypher2365]

Side scrollers were and still are some of the best challenging games 👌

[@attentionwhore2973]

I played this for hours and hours. I never got to knew any other levels than that first one.

[@panthers559]

You weren't the only one lol

[@wchomes106]

@@panthers559 ikr

[@redcavannaugh1193]

Same here I was 5 years old It where my first video game in 99

[@Dija1984]

Me too. Some day I'll get!

[@-Anonymous-.]

I remember being 4 & my neighbors daughters would babysit me. I could never get past the 1st lvl of A new Hope, & the lion King SNES game was hard af too.

[@sammer1097]

This game did an amazing job recreating the Star Wars music.

[@johneymute]

Yep, and all with nintendo’s sample pack dev-kit,you can clearly hear that.

[@alexandrastanaev4399]

Yep, but the imperial march is always on the almost most of this game’s levels. I could say that it’s annoying for me, but it’s not like the other Star Wars video games I played where every music was on the right place and the right time.

[@razmatazx9299]

John Williams could make armpit farts sound good.

[@bradley8575]

Imagine playing the Prequel and Sequel trilogy on the SNES in this Platform I would love to see that

[@enderdrag6491]

I've read that the person who arranged the music for the Super Star Wars trilogy had access to Williams' original sheets, that's why it sounds so authentic

[@granfo]

The perk of being a 45 years old Star Wars fan and gamer is to have experienced the evolution of absolute all existing Star Wars games through all platforms to this day. 🤘

[@MickChallenger-q9l]

Star wars is gay and disney friendly

[@MrZillas]

@granfo SEGA Mega CD and SEGA GameGear?

[@cigoLxeL]

Love how the game carefully makes it seem like Luke _didn't_ totally get his ass kicked by Vader in their duel.

[@PyrokineticFire1]

If you watch the super special edition, Luke uses force invisibility to beat Vader. Vader uses sith fall reduction and demonstrates how Palpatine survived DS2. Luke gets into the X wing he arrived in and meets up with his friends at the end. it was never George's vision for Empire to be such a downer.

[@itree4]

Even in the movie, Luke or up a really good fight for someone not being on Vader's level. He lost, lost his hand, but did better than Anakin did when he fought Count Dooku (the first time).

[@Nocturnewashere]

@@itree4 Vader even noted that Luke was impressive for basically Padawan level during their battle. Though Vader's aggressive style overwhelmed him, plus the subtle little mind games that had unnerved Luke. I can imagine he was filled with anxiety which certainly didn't help his skill.

[@sergiogalindo3024]

@@Nocturnewashere There was no such thing as anxiety back then! Luke wasn't a Pussy claiming "anxiety" like the God-awful Millenials!

[@marcosandrey5059]

Rey just put a luke costume on

[@willmanabregu]

That feeling in the Dagobah stages... The music takes a step back and instead we have a lot of ambience sound, alien birds and stuff... It's like they wanted to make obtaining the Force powers a different experience

[@waynecuff3140]

Still amazing, that's why the Snes is so special. What devs achieved with this 16bit wonder is incredible.

[@peterkrug4124]

Boss battles: 6:17 11:47 22:22 25:25 27:30 36:48 43:44 47:55 52:08 54:50 1:03:29

[@bencewohner305]

Boss battles?

[@beatricesanfilippo6925]

Well Luke for all time he never see the empire things that his friend Ezra saw It

[@iancasey704]

The empire strikes back is such a classic star wars never get bored of it and considering its 1980 its way ahead of its time brilliant 👏 glad the film exists all time top classic 👍

[@simontchang]

The Hoth snow speeder level is one of my favourite Mode 7 levels from any SNES game. Sure not as sophisticated as the version from Shadows of the Empire a few years later, but it was fairly impressive they could simulate the 360-degree movement needed to trip up the AT-ATs with the tow cables.

[@destindargan9946]

I like to see in super attack of the clones where you have to fly one of the republic gunships to fight off waves after waves of droid star fighters and spider walkers.

[@commscan314]

@@destindargan9946 That's pretty much just Gunship Cavalry in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga.

[@TJ-wg3ud]

I remember being blown away by this game when i was a kid and it still looks impressive today

[@sleepy_timezzzcapo3576]

You should see call if duty warzone 2 for PS5 lol in ultra4k

[@TJ-wg3ud]

@@sleepy_timezzzcapo3576 ya it looks like crap compared to modern games but the difference between this game and the nes game that came out a few years before it was crazy. I guess its one of those things that you just had to be there.

[@sleepy_timezzzcapo3576]

@@TJ-wg3ud i respect that I was 3 i was more nes super Mario 1-3 , super punch out, gladius, but I def enjoyed the playthrough.

[@bmac2814]

​@@sleepy_timezzzcapo3576 you compared this to a modern game? 😂 this shit is WAY better than Call of Duty.

[@eldiabolo4880]

One of the hardest games ever!

[@lutherburgsvik6849]

Was it? I honestly can't remember it being that difficult. I remember struggling with some other games but never this one.

[@Seiko180]

I agree, this is way harder than the first one for SNES

[@bradley8575]

Not one if the hardest games if you play it on easy mode you can beat the game if you have save states.

[@mstone9364]

Understatement of the year right here

[@dovahkiinskywalker3607]

​@@bradley8575There wasn't such a thing back then when you played it on the actual console. WTF😂

[@Lorkdemper]

4:10 I remember doing that "skywalking" thing when playing this game, but years later couldn't be sure it wasn't some weird fever dream. Until now. What a weird mechanic.

[@TheJcpeterman1985]

I still have flashbacks of yoda telling me “ do or do bot there is no try” everytime i died

[@erdanochamp7798]

Loved this game as a kid. I didnt know anything about star wars when i got it and it made me fall in love with the franchise.

[@jedijackluther]

Played this in college and I absolutely loved it. Hard as hell. Remind me of taking my Hoth toys outside in winter.

[@commscan314]

This game changes engine every level and I love it for that. The fact that they managed to pull the asteroid field segment off with a full 3D play area, rather than a multiple elevation SMK-style play area like the Battle of Hoth and the Cloud City approach is amazing for the SNES.

[@victorbranco7928]

Amazing music, very faithfull to the movie, SNES sound chip is very impressive

[@Megalocade]

SNES was just impressive in general.

[@wesleyfilms]

The SNES was my world as a little kid. I moved to PC for DOOM and Commander Keen, but always came back for more.

[@lifesyphon1]

My dad and I beat this when I was probably 10 or 11 years old, taking turns making our way slowly level by level. Such a great memory. What a great game, really impressive on that old 16 bit system!

[@multitudeofidols]

56:50 Love how when Luke's X-Wing dips under the clouds the display at top isn't visible.

[@SledgeNE]

This and RotJ are very hard to beat. I played that with my old friends in the 90s and it was very difficult. I have so good memories on both games.

[@Soulintent95]

Its crazy how the music was damn near perfectly adapted into the snes. Then you play the n64 games and it sounds awful. Snes sound chip is hands down the best sound chip that ever existed. Listen to that intro! Ill never forget the 1st time i booted this game up and i was genuinely amazed with the music, just like ill never forget the immense disappointment i felt every time i played an n64 star wars game. Snes is the best console there ever was.

[@David-ln8qh]

It's great sound but I think the PS1 sound chip is extremely underrated.

[@Soulintent95]

@@David-ln8qh its cd audio, entirely different.

[@David-ln8qh]

@@Soulintent95 PS1 could use cd audio OR it's own sound chip, which is why it's so underrated. People tend to lump all PS1 sound into "cd audio".

[@Soulintent95]

@@David-ln8qh oh i see. I didnt know that. I never owned one, but our friends did growing up. Ill have too look into that, i enjoy chip tunes. Thank you for informing me.

[@David-ln8qh]

@@Soulintent95 No problem, chip tunes are so much fun.

[@facerip2222]

@12:28 That guy's face in the cut scene, that's a guy who won a contest in Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine to have his face put in a Super Nintendo game. His name is Jeff Cronos.

[@CartoonyAndor]

In the first game, the parts that weren’t in the movie were kinda “uh” but now those are “...that’s so rad”

[@ChairmanMeowNZ]

Cool I just watched the movie on TV

[@sofoclesmefisto]

tough games like this built you up like a real man

[@Niuzofficial]

I was born in 2005 and I grew up with this, donkey Kong country, and super mario world. Good days. I am lucky to have experienced this.

[@dntlss]

You are a baby,enjoy it,goes fast after your 30s,lol

[@elimenet2566]

You make this look super easy. Very well done! A whole generation of people, myself included, have anger issues due to games like this played in childhood.

[@dglesterhardunkichud4017]

It's tool assisted.

[@tiffanybatcheller-harris522]

I love how the game paused briefly and then . . . BOSS **************** complete with the boss battle music. Totally epic! 🥰

[@itree4]

Wow! This brings back memories! The hardest game I've ever played!

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

This was one of the better Star Wars games.

[@pferreira1983]

There are tons of great Star Wars games.

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

@@pferreira1983 For every good one,there are at least five that suck.

[@pferreira1983]

@@Metalman200xdamnit Really? I can name plenty of good ones. I think maybe it's even.

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

@@pferreira1983 Some were bad. Trust me.

[@pferreira1983]

@@Metalman200xdamnit Could you name some for me?

[@trippen4391]

Played this in the basement of my grandmas home… 16 years later I’m still in this old home now that it’s been passed down… wow good times, could never get past the snow level lol😂🤦🏽‍♂️

[@millsykooksy4863]

I love the beautiful sunset skies in the Lando level

[@Ambaryerno]

God this game was so hard. The worst part was in the Snowspeeder level the hills were completely random, which means you could have been in the middle of tying up a walker, and all the sudden they toss a hill in your path that screws the whole thing up. :-P

[@Halcyon554]

I loved that part in Empire Strikes Back when on patrol Luke goes into a wampa cave and just kicks his goddamn ass. Then, seeing the probe droid, he just goes and kicks it's ass too!

[@mopbrothers]

I love how the developers put all the bounty hunters in the Cloud City levels. Really smart decision as the movie didn’t have them fight at all.

[@wesleyfilms]

This game beat me black and blue as a kid, but I still have great memories about it.

[@jumpcutreviews1545]

Loved this game! So much fun.

[@davanime877]

May The 4th Be With You

[@Lrr_Of_Omikron]

I never knew about that secret pit with invisible platforms at the beginning. Thanks for the tip

[@RickshawMunky]

This run deserves way more love. Top stuff 👍🍻

[@ericlandriault4467]

You are a very good player man , and you are awesome. The force is strong with you jedi knight.

[@pferreira1983]

Oh my gosh this game was so hard in comparison to the other two. Good timing with it being May the 4th.

[@Bates1960]

Before there was Resident Evil this was one of my favorite games as a kid. I played this game for hours. The good old fashioned days back when games had less or no dialogue and certain games had no save points. Back when Gamestop used to be called Babbage's. Those were the days simple times.

[@scusemewhileiwhipout]

anything is possible when you cheat with mods.

[@nicho-uyx1287]

Wow this and jabbas palace, it’s just crazy watching it since I haven’t played since childhood. The feeling of remembering the levels is amazing

[@puertoverde73]

grandes recuerdos de esa epoca, muy buen juego FELICITACIONES👍👍👍

[@WarDaddy66]

I game Genie the hell out of this game. It was super hard as a kid

[@travisdonaldstanley6420]

Classic. Like the movies, this one is the best.

[@ericlandriault4467]

My favorite game in the series.

[@Dragonten312]

Glad to know it wasn’t just me that found this game ridiculously hard as a kid!

[@jarrodm9299]

I remember playing this game and it was really hard to beat but did it nonetheless. Must get best blaster and don’t die, kind of like playing Contra. This was definitely the toughest game of the trilogy to beat by far.

[@robertsims7828]

Look up chests and codes online to this day

[@Triple_A_Gaming372]

Love the mode 7 sections and the level design is sweet.

[@Lrr_Of_Omikron]

The infamous super star wars games, I still haven't beaten them. But they are still some of the best star wars games. I can't wait to see the game based on the last Jedi. Who knows maybe they can save the brand, anx maybe half life 3 will come out.

[@xXLegacy]

Comment and name aged poorly

[@skaladarrellgodeater1070]

In my opinion BEST STAR WARS Game on SNES

[@demirdemirbag3194]

It was Prad Bitt's favorite game

[@damainmane4765]

3:04 "I want to check it out. It won't take long." 6:24 How's it going...

[@erainmartinez8175]

still a classic good gameplay mates

[@verdaodamassa]

I'm a Star Wars fan. I really liked this game, but I prefer the first one in the trilogy (The Episode 4: A New Hope, released in 1992). I had an original cartridge purchased in the early 2000s. This game so very difficult! THANKS FOR VIDEO.

[@ajrivera1523]

This game was incredibly hard for no damn reason. Up there with Rygar on NES

[@Shogundoxie1414]

I spent countless hours playing this game and I don't remember how long it took me to beat the game but I was finally able to.

[@dglesterhardunkichud4017]

"They fly now?" 19:37

[@peterkrug2327]

12:53 How can there already be Imperial forces inside the Rebel base when the walkers haven't even attacked yet???

[@ChilianaJones]

19:47 "They fly now!!???"

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

Appropriate for Star Wars Day today.

[@TakedaYuuki-8SFL]

Amen

[@moesyzslak2939]

Somewhat p2 ps3 in way of graphics with so much going on no zombies just walking in place everything on screen was there with a job to kill the jedi detail was just crazy

[@1982favourite]

No having constant music on Dagobah really sets the mood

[@DrownInLysergic]

This game looks like a lot of fun. The pseudo 3D of the Hoth level with the ATATs was honestly impressive considering the time and hardware. It surprised me for sure, I kinda expected a more side scroller type of level. Same with the X-Wing to Bespin.

[@johnwilliamross]

So much indigenous wildlife destroyed by Luke.

[@mk-ultraviolence1760]

That moment when you realize Chewbacca is Zangief.

[@foxmoulder7724]

this game pisses me off, ahhh nostalgia 😅

[@keltrepes2534]

Took me FOREVER to get past Dagobah back when this came out.

[@appletree7235]

I remember playing the game as a four year old child in 1998. I could never beat the game because it was too hard. I probably had to be an 8-9 year old child to beat the game.

[@mauriciofernandez7335]

Snowspeeder and asteroid fields stages were very difficult.

[@Philkoehler4]

Youngings will never know how hard just even the first level was for us as kids way back then.....now its a breeze but man back then this game and there was a pac man game for super nes that was really tough as well

[@sligacheese6470]

Back in the day you had 1 maybe 2 rentals on Friday night so you played the shit out of what ever you rented. Lol

[@jc_malone8217]

If you have anger management issues, stay away from this game.

[@fryl0ck33]

Any tips on the cloudcar X-wing level on Jedi? I can't keep them from running into me and just die immediately no matter how far I make it. Great run, thanks for posting!

[@bub777]

I like you made your own theatrical crash of the snowspeeder with the thermal detonator.

[@brelynntheintrovert5646]

i remember playing this when i was younger on my mom’s snes. i only got as far as riding the dinosaur (forgive me idk what he was) and then these parkour pillars you had to jump from. then i just gave up

[@jackson2531]

I think you're referring to the tauntaun.

[@wolfie-gz2kw]

I remember buying this when it came out,it took awhile,but,I finally beat the game.

[@Keethroolz]

The game over screens for this and Super Return of the Jedi always scared the piss out of me

[@five65live57]

The graphics was way ahead of it’s time … better than ps1 games hands down

[@mikedski9698]

SUPER STAR WARS THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK For The Super Nintendo Entertainment System! 30TH ANNIVERSARY! 1993-2023!

[@pcorf]

I thought this was the best of the 3 Super Star Wars games. I owned all 3 myself back in the day and played them a lot. Great music and SFX in all 3 games. But The Empire Strikes Back was the longest of the Super Star Wars games, had the longest levels, hardest boss fights and the best music of the bunch. Darth Vader fights are great but he just flies off screen. In Super Star Wars Return of The Jedi he is defeated.

[@demirdemirbag3194]

Hans Olo's boss from Stuttgart was very upset because Hans spent a lot of time solo playing this unbelievable game.

[@hoffmeisterdawid5796]

Love this Game

[@justbrandon8820]

MOST IMPRESSIVE

[@rodrigomarcondes5857]

i played the shit out of the super star wars trilogy as a kid

[@codex4081]

May the 4ce be with you

[@swantonbombx14]

Yo, that death music low-key scared the shit out of me as a kid lol

[@pc2726]

loved this game

[@daviddyer3543]

What if the The Force Awakens and the rest of the current trilogy got their own Super Star Wars game? Also, how many megabits would be needed to do this game justice?

[@somacruz7759]

I actually wouldn't mind Super Star Wars games based on the newer movies :)

[@daviddyer3543]

@@somacruz7759 What about some of the expanded universe stories? Would Super Heir To The Empire, Super Dark Force Rising & Super Last Command be a start?

[@Cookiez255]

I remember getting stuck on stage 3, and spending ALONG time. Impossible fkn game. good times.

[@mrBeanstring21]

I remember this.. man, i used to watch my cousin playing this and he's really pissed off hahahaha

[@mikedski9698]

May The Force Be With You!

[@zachfournier3727]

This was one of the first games I ever had. As a kid I played it so much and I never made it to the boss 7 minutes into the game

[@Nskawtea1]

You have to understand that what made this really difficult was that when you tried to play this game like the movie, you couldn't because there were random enemies popping in and out of nowhere xD

[@dereklarner6298]

Genesis owners got robbed never having a port of this series.

[@MarcoPolo82]

JVC have plans to port Super Star Wars to Sega Cd, but this never hapenning .

[@dereklarner6298]

CD? If they could have ported the Indiana Jones to Genesis, why couldn’t they have done this on the regular Genesis?

[@victorbranco7928]

Genesis can't do those Mode 7 effects

[@dereklarner6298]

I used to believe that, until I saw how the Genesis pulled off the Super Indiana Jones game, which used said Mode 7 effects, so now I’m not so sure Genesis couldn’t have done at the very least a passable imitation. Look, let’s be honest; it wouldn’t have been as good, but at least we’d have had something!

[@MarcoPolo82]

I wish the Treasure had made a Star Wars game in the style of GunStar Heroes / Contra Hards Corps. With stages in SMHUPS style. I think it would be incredible.

[@m0851-o3d]

what....I played this game like 25 years ago...it was so hard to play back then....and looks still hard now