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In 1983, George Lucas founded Lucasfilm Games, a video game development company to work alongside his Lucasfilm production studio. Although Lucasfilm is obviously known primarily for its
Star Wars movies, the rights for making
Star Wars games were in the hands of various other third parties.
So instead, the company, later renamed LucasArts, focused on adventure games – story-driven games based in exploration and solving puzzles. The games drew on Lucasfilm’s pedigree by being cinematic (or, as cinematic as a PC game in the late 80s could be) and by having smart, humorous storytelling.
The company’s first adventure game was