Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, sometimes called Super The Empire Strikes Back or simply Super Empire Strikes Back is a platform game for the Super Nintendo (Super Famicom in Japan) which follows Super Star Wars and precedes Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. It is largely based on the second film of the original Star Wars trilogy, Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back.

The game's manual added a number of names and details not spelled out in the game itself.

Plot and gameplay
While the game roughly follows the plot of the film, several changes are made to accommodate gameplay. Characters fight their way from scene to scene and are confronted by multiple enemies. Other changes include Han Solo being carbon-frozen while searching for C-3PO, rather than captured, and Luke Skywalker fighting Cloud Cars in his X-wing fighter while approaching Cloud City.

Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back follows closely the standard set by Super Star Wars, with multiple playable characters and Mode 7 quasi-3D vehicle sequences. Controls are very similar to the first game, but with an enhanced double-jump. Unlike its predecessor, the player is able to use Force powers. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca are all playable characters. Darth Vader and a "Wampa King" appear as bosses.

Levels

 * 1) Hoth 1
 * 2) Wampa Cave 1 - Boss: Giant Wampa Creature
 * 3) Hoth 2
 * 4) Wampa Cave 2
 * 5) Hoth 3 - Boss: Imperial Probe Droid
 * 6) Echo Base 1
 * 7) Snowspeeder
 * 8) Outside AT-AT
 * 9) Inside AT-AT
 * 10) Top of AT-AT - Boss: AT-AT Head
 * 11) Echo Base 2 - Boss: C-A-T (Combat Attack Transport)
 * 12) Echo Base 3 - Boss: AT-ST
 * 13) Asteroid Field
 * 14) Dagobah 1
 * 15) Dagobah 2
 * 16) Dagobah 3 - Boss: Swamp Creature Habogad
 * 17) Cloud City 1 - Boss: Tibanna Hover Transport
 * 18) Ugnaught Factory - Boss: Ugharro mining crusher
 * 19) Carbon Freezing Chamber  - Boss: Carbon Freezing Chamber Generator
 * 20) Cloud City 2 - Boss: Boba Fett, Slave I
 * 21) X-Wing to Cloud City
 * 22) Cloud City Reactor - Boss: Darth Vader

Enemies
The game manual refers to some bounty hunters by their singular names, but since multiple versions appear in one scene this list assumes they are more than one of the same species or droid model.
 * LOM-series protocol droids
 * AC1 surveillance droid
 * Acid Plant
 * Airtroopers
 * AT-ST walkers
 * AT-AT walkers
 * Armor Droids
 * Cloud Cars
 * Dagbats
 * Dagobian caterpillars
 * Dagopillers
 * Dengar look-alikes
 * Droid Guards
 * Speeder Bike Snowtroopers
 * Fire Bat
 * Gands
 * Grenadier Droids
 * Grenadier troopers
 * Gundarks
 * helios
 * Hoth hogs
 * Hover Droid (small)
 * Hover Droid (large)
 * Ice Bat
 * Ice-breathing Wampas
 * Ice Cat
 * Icy jellyfish
 * Ice Piranha
 * Ice Plant
 * IG-88 assassin droids
 * Ion eel
 * Imperial spider droids
 * Mechanical claws
 * Mini-bats
 * Orbot Droids
 * Porcuspines
 * Rolling creatures (Maggot)
 * Red Snowtroopers
 * Red Snowtroopers with E-Web blaster
 * Red Snowtroopers with shield & grenades
 * Snow Bear
 * Snow Mynock
 * Snowtroopers with E-Web blasters
 * Snowtroopers
 * Stargerms
 * Swamp Gator
 * TIE Fighters
 * Trandoshans
 * Turrets
 * Ugnaughts
 * Viper probe droids

Behind the scenes

 * The game was released on June 1st, 1993, exactly one year after Super Star Wars and one year before Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
 * Advertised as a 12 megabit game. For a relatively brief period in gaming history, some particularly large games were advertised based on their contents in megabits, some of which required special cartridges to hold. Other games advertised in this manner included Strider, Streets of Rage, and Final Fantasy VI (Known at time of release as Final Fantasy III). Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, the next in the series, was advertised as 16 megabits.
 * Included a password system so users could effectively save games without needing any onboard cartridge memory.
 * Originally the Carbon Freezing Chamber level came after the X-Wing level, and thus would have been played as Luke. Screenshots of this can be found in the manual.
 * Also, there was going to be an item to increase the length of Luke's Force Meter akin to the Health Sword; it is shown in the manual.
 * Released in Japan by Victor Interactive Software as Super Star Wars: Teikoku no Gyakushuu. (English: Super Star Wars: The Empire's Counterattack)