SNES Star Wars Super Empire Strikes Back
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Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on SNES is a 1993 LucasArts-licensed action platformer developed by Sculptured Software and published by JVC Musical Industries. It is the second entry in the Super Star Wars trilogy and is widely considered the strongest of the three carts. Mode 7 snowspeeder sequences, overhead Millennium Falcon stages, and a soundtrack that translates John Williams' orchestral themes into 16-bit hardware put this one in a different category from most licensed games of the period.
1993 was a punishing year for licensed platformers on SNES. Most of them leaned on brand recognition and shipped with shallow gameplay and thin level design. Sculptured Software went the other direction. The Hoth opening is brutal on any difficulty setting, the AT-AT walker sequences demand real pattern recognition, and Cloud City stages push the hardware in ways that still read clearly on a modern CRT setup. The original Super Star Wars from 1992 had proved the engine could handle it, and the team used that foundation to build something harder and more layered. THQ had picked up North American publishing duties by this point in the trilogy's run, and the cart hit retail at a moment when SNES was at full momentum: Donkey Kong Country was still a year out, Mortal Kombat II had just dropped, and the 16-bit console wars were running at full speed. A Star Wars game that could actually compete on gameplay terms mattered in that environment.
Mode 7 snowspeeders, lightsaber duels with real timing, and a difficulty curve that does not apologize.
This copy is cart only, no box, no manual. The label is the primary thing to inspect on any loose Super Star Wars cart: the Sculptured Software version carries a specific label variation that differs from later printings in color saturation and corner finish. Board and pin contacts should be checked before play, standard practice on any 33-year-old SNES cart. Works on original hardware and on SNES clone consoles without modification. Run your thumb along the cartridge edge connector before you slot it.
OWNER VERIFY: 1993 JVC or THQ label variant on cartridge back, and pin connector condition.
Mode 7 snowspeeders, lightsaber duels with real timing, and a difficulty curve that does not apologize.
The Nintendo Archive
This is part of Nintendo's 90s run, the era that built the shop's back wall. Nintendo shipped cartridges, plush, promotional oddities, and packaging that most buyers threw out on the way to the game. What survived, mostly by accident, ends up here. Every piece is cleaned, photographed, and listed one at a time. Nothing on the archive shelf is a duplicate.
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Inspected in Las Vegas on August 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This snes star wars super empire strikes back originates from the 90s era[01], represents Nintendo[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
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Looks awesome. Definitely swinging by again next time I'm in Vegas.
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Every piece in the shop is a single unit. Once it is gone, it is gone.
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