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This month sees the release of Star Wars: Episode One, just twenty-two years after the release of Episode IV. Naturally something as big as this couldn't go by uncelebrated, so Lucasfilm have decided to release not only figures, models, t-shirts, hats, keyrings, battery-operated lightsabres and novelty lighters branded with the Star Wars logo, but they've also set their games division, Lucasarts, to the task of producing at least one Episode I-related game on every major format. Due to a wrong number, this includes the Spectrum (someone in marketing misdialled Sega UK and got through to Sinclair Research: 'Hello? This is Lucasarts. How many of your computery-things have you sold?' The reply being: 'Um, a few million.'). Here's a sneak preview of what this year's summer smash tie-in will look like...
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