I have the Star Wars brain. I caught it when I was two and a half at a drive in theater. I'm pretty sure the windows were rolled down (cause that's what you did at a drive-in theater) that allowed whatever musical tones and special effects to become lodged within my head, permanently. I've have come to grips to this after I discovered it was called "being a Star Wars fan." It has afflicted me, for good and for bad, ever since. It was just a matter of time before I started gushing about games in the Star Wars universe.
So a long time ago, in a cultural far, far away...STAR WARS!!! 1977. The first blockbuster movie, so called because lines went around the block. It was amazing, fantastic, everything that was missing from a good summer movie. Maybe. Who knows. I'm not here to talk about movies but about the merchandising from movies. And of course, in particular, about board games that had the Star Wars license on it.
I started researching the games that have come out since 1977 and found a lot. Instead of the one post, this will turn into a five part post: The Original Trilogy; West End Games; Special Edition; The Dark Years (Prequels); and the Golden Years. This first post will cover the table top games released between 1977 and 1994. Strap yourself in, we're going to make the jump into hyperspace, right after the jump.
