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In the first half of 2023, I was challenged to design a unique ZX Spectrum game based upon the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back. The idea was to create something that showed more of the movie, more faithfully than either the old Atari arcade game or the more recent - but still retro - games for the 8-bit and 16-bit consoles from Sega and Nintendo.

With the screen geometry adjusted, the play area becomes just 224x128 pixels, and the idea of the Star Destroyer as a multi-screen megaboss (like Level 3 of R-Type) gets a touch more claustrophobic, but I think it could work. Its cannons would be place more-or-less according to the canonical specs, though there would have to be more of them to increase the challenge. Targeting systems can also be destroyed, but this can either cause all remaining cannons in that section to fire randomly, or call in additional waves of TIE Fighters, etc.

Description
In the first half of 2023, I was challenged to design a unique ZX Spectrum game based upon the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back. The idea was to create something that showed more of the movie, more faithfully than either the old Atari arcade game or the more recent - but still retro - games for the 8-bit and 16-bit consoles from Sega and Nintendo.

With the screen geometry adjusted, the play area becomes just 224x128 pixels, and the idea of the Star Destroyer as a multi-screen megaboss (like Level 3 of R-Type) gets a touch more claustrophobic, but I think it could work. Its cannons would be place more-or-less according to the canonical specs, though there would have to be more of them to increase the challenge. Targeting systems can also be destroyed, but this can either cause all remaining cannons in that section to fire randomly, or call in additional waves of TIE Fighters, etc.