Star Wars: 10 Best Starfighter Games You Need To Play

The grand-daddy of Star Wars flight games, released during the height of the arcade era. It became one of the top-selling arcade cabinets of 1983, allowing youth of the era to relive a huge moment of their childhoods, Luke's attack on the Death Star. The game featured vector graphics, digitized voices from the movies, and a synthesized Star Wars theme.

The plot is straightforward - fly as Red Five through waves of TIE fighters to get to the Death Star, fly across the surface, then finally navigate the trench to launch your proton torpedoes. Lather, rinse, repeat - except with increasing numbers of enemies on every successive run, until the screen is full of vectorized projectiles and TIEs.

The ONLY way to truly play this game was the sit-down version; a larger screen and booming speakers behind your chair truly put you into the action. This is a classic of retro gaming, and rightfully so.

Few modern games can capture the feeling of playing Star Wars for the first time, thinking you were doing okay, until your stomach dropped at the sight of Darth Vader's TIE joining the fray. It's not the most technically advanced game on the list, but it may be the most memorable.