Q&As About 'Star Wars': Why did Star Wars video games give a 'Very Special Thanks' to George Lucas in the credits?
Why did Star Wars video games give a "Very Special Thanks" to George Lucas in the credits? George Lucas is the (now-retired) founder and CEO of Lucasfilm Ltd., the parent company of LucasArts Games, which was originally named Lucasfilm Games. Lucas also created the Star Wars movie and television franchise in the 1970s, starting with Star Wars, aka Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, in 1977. All of the Star Wars video games, whether they were published directly by Lucas Arts or by entities such as Atari (whose Star Wars: The Arcade Game was a personal favorite of mine when it was introduced in 1983) owed their existence to the films. Without Lucas’s space fantasy set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” the programmers, game designers, graphics artists, salespeople, and composers might not have even gone into the video game industry in the first place. So it is natural that many of those individuals who playe...