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Hollywood + Video Games: George Lucas and LucasArts’ Flipside To Spielberg’s Game Shame

Kevin Kelly
By Kevin Kelly posted 1 year ago
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Screenshot from 1982\'s Rescue on Fractalus

Last week we talked about the video gaming shame of Steven Spielberg, but what’s on the flipside of the Spielberg/Lucas gaming coin? George Lucas founded LucasArts some 26 years ago, and it’s still going strong. Lucas clearly had some sort of video gaming mojo that continues to vex Spielberg to this day. Although what’s even odder is that many of LucasArts’ games never crossed over into the movie realm, so maybe the duo has some sort of dual blessing/curse going on. Good games, bad movies; good movies, bad games.

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