Return Of The Jedi

In the first stage of the game, you pilot a Speeder Bike where you must avoid enemy bikes and trees in an attempt to reach the Ewok village where you receive a 10,000 point bonus. The second stage has you controlling the Millennium Falcon as you dodge obstacles and TIE Fighters to reach the reactor and blow it up. The next round has you flying a Speeder Bike again, followed by the driving of an ATST Scout Walker. After another round of Speeder Bikes, you enter a "split-time" mode, where you alternate between the ATST and the Millenium Falcon's assault upon a Star Destroyer. The game switches between these two modes every few seconds.

Unlike the previous Star Wars titles released by Atari, this game does not implement a "first person" cockpit perspective, but instead uses a pulled-back 3rd person perspective that is very similar to that of Sega's Zaxxon.

If you play the game all the way through, it stops and there is a nice little ceremony where Yoda tells you, "You are now a true Jedi Knight", and you get a little golden star beside your name on the scoreboard.

The "name entry" music is Ewok Celebration - often referred to by fans as Yub Nub - which is heard in the final scene of the original 1983 release of the film.

This game used a cabinet design that is very similar to other dedicated Atari classics like Firefox and Major Havoc. Decals of Luke Skywalker on a speeder bike and Darth Vader's helmet are on the upper section of the cabinet that contains the monitor. There is no artwork on the lower section of the cabinet.

There are no physical DIP switches found on the game board. All game settings are modified in test mode and then saved to an EEPROM. The game has a large amount of digitized speech and sound effects that are generated by the TMS 5220, the same speech IC used in Atari's Gauntlet.