When you think of LucasArts as a game developer and publisher, you immediately think of Star Wars, but believe it or not, what got the company on the map were games like Loom and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe.

When LucasArts starting to make games for their famous Star Wars series, it started off to be very successful, with games likes X-Wing and TIE Fighter doing really well. After that, they never stopped and as a result, the games started getting worse. To this day, George and his team are still producing the games, the latest creation being The Force Unleashed, which hasn't been getting good reviews.

Why did LucasArts shy away from their other games that made the company known?

You guys remember LucasArts? Developer and publisher of some repute, considered something of a heavyweight back in the days before the landscape was ruled by the hulking behemoths of sequels and franchises? Maybe it was before your time. Maybe you know the name, but not the face; maybe you think LucasArts is the company that published all those Star Wars games.

That's a funny thing, actually. When LucasArts first got rolling, all the way back in 1984, it did so with games like Rescue on Fractalus, The Eidolon and Koronis Rift. It may seem surprising now, but it took a lot of years before it finally got around to plundering the Lucas vaults for material, and when it did, it wasn't Star Wars the company went with but Indiana Jones, cranking out a couple of licensed titles that despite the pedigree met with only tepid response. What really put the company on the map were adventures and epic battles of an entirely different kind.

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