Watch out Luke! Don’t get too close to that Sarlacc sand penis!

Not just any Star Wars saga, the Super Star Wars saga!  Nintendo has just announced that the Super Star Wars series is headed to the Wii Virtual Console this week beginning with the first Super Star Wars game from the SNES era.  I reported previously about the unknown future of the X-wing vs. TIE Fighter series in this post, but is this the release of past Star Wars content president of LucasArts Darrel Rodriguez alluded to?

I really don’t know?  And I really don’t care, any and all Star Wars additions to my gaming catalog are good ones (minus that N64 abortion of a game called Battle for Naboo).  I skipped the SNES era for some strange reason, so the Super Star Wars series wasn’t even on my radar at the time.  All I know is, I missed out on playing through the original movie trilogy, battling Mos Eisley cantina patrons, as well as slicing off huge sand penises (pictured above) with my lightsaber.

Nintendo and LucasArts have teamed up together through an expanded partnership to bring all 3 games in the series (Super Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back and Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi will follow) to the Wii console.  Additional Star Wars themed content on other Wii channels will be coming as well, like a Check Mii Out character contest for Star Wars, as well as an Everybody Votes Channel contest so you’ll finally be able to figure out who shot first? Han Solo or Greedo?  This just keeps getting better and better doesn’t it!

Also mentioned is that additional classic LucasArts games will be scheduled for release on the Virtual Console platform in the future, so I’m hoping we might just see Labyrinth (1986) and Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995) hitting our beloved white paperweights soon.  Maybe even some Jedi Knight series action!  All I know is, I need to buy more Wii points now to include these three awesome games for 800 Wii points each.

I’ll continue to hold my breath and have a stash of points ready for the X-wing vs. TIE Fighter re-release though if it happens.  I hope this wasn’t all of the announcements from LucasArts, but I can still dream can’t I?