Off the back of some of my youthful pie-in-the-sky posts on the Spectrum Computing forum, I got talking with Will Brooker (professor of film and cultural studies at Kingston University and an author of several books of cultural studies) about the general concept of videogames as movie adaptations. He challenged me to create a pitch for a new game based upon The Empire Strikes Back , as it might/could have been made for the Spectrum, circa 1988, to accompany an article he was planning to write about movie adaptations on the ZX Spectrum - "A Limit Case In Adaptation: 1980s Video Games and Contemporary Movies" . Obviously, there are official Star Wars games - DoMark's conversions of the Atari arcade games for the Spectrum, not to mention those on the consoles as well - that can't be completely ignored. Also, by 1988, Lucasfilm were taking charge of their properties and either creating games in-house, or at least publishing themselves,...