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As of 2020, over 90 million copies of Star Wars video games had been sold. The franchise spans more than a hundred officially licensed titles released across the 8-bit home console era through modern platforms.
The first officially licensed Star Wars electronic game was Kenner's Star Wars Electronic Battle Command, released in 1979. It was a tabletop game in which players scanned star systems to locate enemies and search for MAGNA, described as the FORCE-giving star, across three levels of play.
EA's exclusive deal to develop Star Wars games for consoles and PC was halted in January 2021, more than three years before its scheduled expiration on the 14th of October 2024. Lower-than-expected sales and mixed fan reception toward EA's handling of the Battlefront series led Lucasfilm to open the license to additional partners.
Following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012 and the closure of LucasArts the following year, most previously released Star Wars video games were reclassified as Star Wars Legends on the 24th of April 2014, and declared non-canonical. EA was granted an exclusive license to produce Star Wars games for consoles and PC for a decade.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was an RPG developed by BioWare that debuted in 2003 on the Microsoft Xbox and PC. It won Game of the Year at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2003 and was critically acclaimed for telling an original story set thousands of years before the films.
Project Ragtag was the codename for an untitled Star Wars game in development at Visceral Games, set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, with Amy Hennig serving as creative lead. EA announced Visceral's closure on the 17th of October 2017, and on the 15th of January 2019, reporting confirmed the project had been canceled.