Graphics are simple bitmaps and regular 32x32 icons, with few animations.Įach game starts with Luke arriving at Dagobah in a X-Wing. The game received poor reviews at the time of its release, mostly because critics decided to review it as a regular game, rather than a "quick break" replacement to games like Solitaire or Hearts. Unlike other titles, Yoda Stories has no central plot or definitive goal - it's a mere collection of games where the player, controlling Luke Skywalker has to complete an objective like rescuing Han Solo or Princess Leia, obtaining an object or warning the Rebellion in several locations in the Star Wars universe like Hoth, Tatooine or the Forest moon of Endor. In the Star Wars timeline, Yoda Stories is placed between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of Jedi, where Luke Skywalker is completing his training with Jedi Master Yoda. It was preceded by Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures, and no further Desktop Adventures titles were released. However, don't think of Yoda as a game and you'll love it.Star Wars: Yoda Stories is a 1997 computer game based on the Star Wars franchise developed by LucasArts. This is a pretty interesting thing to click through if you're a Star Wars fan, but it's really the sort of product that you look at maybe twice and then immediately forget about. To add a bit of extra value, LucasArts have seen fit to throw a copy of the exquisite 'Making Magic' Star Wars multi-media thingy - so you can watch how they added the new bits to the trilogy. It's a definite 'work PC' toy, so don't expect anything too deep. This isn't the kind of thing you'd buy to use at home. The adventures that the game generates will only last you an hour and are simple 'do this, do that and then find such and such an object' type affairs andĪre a great distraction if you're sitting at your desk at lunch-time rather than sitting down the pub with other people who have friends. It's not so much a proper game, it's more a sort of 'interactive toy' - which apart from a completely horrible expression is mething that we're eeing more of theseĭays. Lob in some fantastic sound effects and a few little add-ons to "Star Wars-ify" (is that a word?) your desktop and you've got a good idea what this little package is all about. Think adventure games circa 1984, think Zelda on the Gameboy, think simple, randomly generated, top-down scrolling adventure game with lots of extremely cute-looking Star Wars imagery. Yoda Stories is something that follows in the same vein but errs more toward the 'game' side of things. Not really a game, not really a screensaver. Remember Indiana Jones And His Desktop Adventures? If ever there was a misunderstood product out there, that certainly was one.
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