TFN Games has posted a new editorial by Tyrell "Lord-Draco" Jackson, entitled "The State of Star Wars Gaming" about the mass market appeal of the Star Wars, and how it has developed into it's own genre.

LucasArts, the videogame company that makes Star Wars titles along with other games (LucasArts is mainly known for their SW games). When LucasArts first came out with the batch of SW titles, they were liked by a few fans, but they weren?t what you call a system seller a game that a person would lay money down for a certain console just so that can play that one game. You couldn?t rank a SW title back then with a Donkey Kong Country or a Doom game. Star Wars games then were mainly made for the simple Star Wars fan. You wouldn?t expect a SW game then to set sales records and sell out the first day of its release. It just wasn?t in the nature of a SW game to do such a thing. Come on, look at all of the PlayStation SW games like Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Power Battle, they are all laughing stocks. Episode I: Racer just didn?t get it down. The only SW title then to actually do something was Rogue Squadron and Shadows of the Empire for the N64. However later on, all of that changed.