Released: 1993
Format: PC, Mac, Sega-CD/ Mega-CD, 3DO
Publisher: LucasArts
Key Staff: Vince Lee (designer, programmer and project lead), Ron K. Lussier (lead artist), Daniel Colon, Richard Green (artists), Aaron Muszalski (lead art technician), John Williams (music)
REBEL ASSAULT WAS NEVER EXPECTED TO MAKE ANY MONEY FORMED IN 1982, Lucasfilm Games made its name in the mid-Eighties with 8-bit games such as The Eidolon and Ballblazer, before later in the decade beginning its successful line of adventures games, mainly based around the popular SCUMM engine. Unable to develop games based around its most famous IP, it wasn’t until 1993 that the company (by now renamed LucasArts) finally released its first Star Wars title. Space sim X-Wing was a predictably huge hit, finally giving gamers and Star Wars fans the chance…