Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Sorry about the mess.

This article or section needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of article quality.

Please follow the article standards laid out in the Layout Guide and the Manual of Style and complete this article to the highest level of quality. Remove this message when finished.

Perhaps the archives are incomplete.

This article contains an excess of redlinks.

Attention is requested to create new articles from these links. Click "[show]" in the "Credits" and "Appearances" sections if redlinks are not immediately visible. Please remove this message when finished.

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, sometimes called Super Return of the Jedi, is a platform game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom in Japan) and Nintendo Game Boy which follows Super Star Wars and Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. There is also a simplified version for the Sega Game Gear portable system. It is largely based on the third film of the original Star Wars trilogy, Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.

Opening crawl[]

Episode VI
RETURN OF THE JEDI

Luke Skywalker has returned to
his home planet of Tatooine in
an attempt to rescue his
friend Han Solo from the
clutches of the vile gangster
Jabba the Hutt.

Little does Luke know that the
GALACTIC EMPIRE has secretly
begun construction on a new
armored space station even
more powerful than the first
dreaded Death Star.

When completed, this ultimate
weapon will spell certain doom
for the small band of rebels
struggling to restore freedom
to the galaxy...

Gameplay[]

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi closely follows the standard set by the first two Super Star Wars games, with multiple playable characters and Mode 7 quasi-3D vehicle sequences. Controls are identical to the second game, and this installment also includes its predecessor's password save option. While the plot of the game roughly follows the film, several changes were made to accommodate gameplay. Characters fought their way from scene to scene and are confronted by multiple enemies.

In addition to the standard Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca, new playable characters include Leia and Wicket the Ewok. Bosses include the Jabba's Palace door guard droid, the Rancor beast, and Emperor Palpatine. Vehicle sequences include the Endor speeder bike chase, a ride to Jabba's Palace in the landspeeder and a cruise in the Millennium Falcon.

Levels^[3][]

Return of the jedi speeder — A screenshot of the 3D Mode 7 sequence of the game where the player pilots a landspeeder to Jabba's Palace in the first level.

Tatooine 1 (Landspeeder)
Tatooine 2 - Boss: Palace Door Guard
Jabba's Dance Hall - Boss: Bib Fortuna
Jabba's Palace - Boss: Giant Frog-dog
Rancor Pit - Boss: Rancor
Attack on Sail Barge - Boss: Esoomian
Inside Sail Barge - Boss: Jabba the Hutt
Endor - Speeder Bikes
Ewok Village A - Boss: Imperial EV-series supervisor droid
Ewok Village B - Boss: Giant forest beast
Endor - Boss: Imperial Ship
Endor Space Battle (Millennium Falcon)
Power Generator - Boss: Deflector Shield Generator
Inside Death Star - Boss: Zero-G assault stormtrooper
Death Star Surface
Tower - Boss: Emperor's Royal Guard, Zero-G assault stormtrooper
Tower Entrance - Vader - Boss: Darth Vader
Emperor's Chamber - Boss: Emperor Palpatine
Death Star Tunnel

Enemies[]

Arions^[4]
Bats
Blobs
Bombardment droids
Dinosaur
electric eels
Eloms
Emperor's Royal Guards
- Blue Royal Guard
Endorian flytraps^[5]
Endorian mosquitoes^[5]
EV-series supervisor droid
Flying lightning droids
frog-dog
FX Medical Droids
Gamorreans
Giant tree frogs
Grans
Huge forest snakes
Hovering energy droids
Imperial rolling droids
Imperial Army trooper
Imperial gunners

Imperial officers
Invisible lizards
Jawas
Lizards
Mini-frogs
Needle rat
Piranha
Piranha plants
Purple mantis
Quarren
Mini-Rancor
Salacious B. Crumb
Scout troopers
Scout troopers on Imperial speeder bikes
Skiff guard (Weequay)
Skiff guard (Klatooinian)
Skiff guard (Nikto)
Skiff guard (window shooter)
Slugs
Stormtroopers
TIE Fighters
TIE/IN interceptors
Twi'lek dancers (Oola)
Unidentified Tatooine arthropod
Unidentified Tatooine dragons
Winged lizards^[6]

Behind the scenes[]

The game was advertised as a 16 megabit game. For a relatively brief period in gaming history, some particularly large games were advertised based on their contents in megabits, some of which required special cartridges to hold. Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the previous game in the series, was advertised as 12 megabits.

Unlike the rest of the Super Star Wars series, this game had no versions for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom, as those systems were at the end of their life. Game Boy and Game Gear versions of the game do exist.