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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Captain Kelsten

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Wiper

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Anyone remember that time in the early nineties when no-one really talked about Star Wars? It'd been ages since Jedi and the Special Editions were still a glint in Lucas' bionic eye. No toys in the shops, no other merchandising around. B-wings in tatty boxes at jumble sales. Perhaps Ewoks was still on Children's BBC. It was all considered a bit nerdy and lame. Funny to think back to that now.

Not really - my memories of Star Wars in the early '90s is of the metric tonne of amazing (and not-so-amazing) games coming out based on them - X-Wing, Super Star Wars, TIE Fighter, Rebel Assault, Star Wars Arcade, Dark Forces. I wasn't really aware of whether all that was considered cool or not, but as a gamer it seemed like a massive franchise.

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Alex W.

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Star Wars simply was. It formed part of the cultural substrate of the world when I was a kid. It didn't matter that there weren't any new movies coming out or anything, any more than it would matter that there wasn't a sequel to LotR, or pies.

I think the closest comparison would be the classic Disney movies which still had (have?) an enormous presence despite being variously years to decades old.

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Just because there's not much in terms of news, thought of this throwback the other day: Star Wars: Behind the Magic, an interactive CD-Rom no less!

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Remember it having deleted footage, which was genuinely exciting at the time, and a quiz. Also spent far longer than necessary testing out weapons on stormtroopers:

Good times.

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Not really - my memories of Star Wars in the early '90s is of the metric tonne of amazing (and not-so-amazing) games coming out based on them - X-Wing, Super Star Wars, TIE Fighter, Rebel Assault, Star Wars Arcade, Dark Forces. I wasn't really aware of whether all that was considered cool or not, but as a gamer it seemed like a massive franchise.

Ah, I mean just before all that. Perhaps late 80s-91 then. I guess the Thrawn trilogy kickstarted a bunch of EU stuff. I remember searching the local papers for people selling second hand AT-ATs because you couldn't get anything in the shops. Then stuff like Super Star Wars on the SNES came along and people seemed to start talking about it again.

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Sabreman

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I finally saw the trailer for this on the big screen last week, and my heart rate went through the roof. I told my friend to feel my pulse. He thinks it's awesome that something can still have such an effect in these jaded times. I think I'm going to need medicating on December 18.

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Poor Han, he's a pensioner but still wandering around in the clothes he wore back when he was a cool young rebel. There's a scene where they go to the Cantina and all the kids look up from their holophones and laugh at granddad walking in In the space equivalent of the Fonz's outfit.

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