Star Wars: Yoda Stories (1997)
Genres:Adventure, Puzzle
Themes:Action, Science fiction, Kids
Game modes:Single player
Story:Grab your lightsaber and get ready for terrific Star Wars adventuring in Yoda Stories, the newest in a series of easy-to-play Desktop Adventures from LucasArts. Join Luke Skywalker as he trains to become a Jedi with Yoda, then harness the Force and cross the galaxy to meet exotic aliens, collect stange devices and weapons and deal the Galactic Empire one crippling blow after another - all within an hour!Show more
Vote to bring this game to GOG and help preserve it.2 910
I sunk countless hours into this game as a kid. It's deceptively simple and largely just fetch quests, but it always kept things fresh with some new dialog or some unexpected mcguffin to go hunt down. Sometimes you don't need the fancy games but just something simple in the era of the CD-ROM to keep you engaged and this game provided that in spades as a youth.
pretty sure this is one of the earliest incarnations of procedural generation. for that alone it should be in the GOG preservation program. it definitely has the bones of a lot of games that came after. would be really interesting to revisit this. i think contemporary audiences would be pleasantly surprised how simple and fun the game is, especially due to the fact its the opposite of a time sink - each round is about 10 minutes or less. not many people know about this game so im not sure how big of a chance we have of getting this one.
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