I'm Hello everybody and welcome to the Canan Rince podcast, Volume 14, issue 697, and today we're going to be talking about rescue on fractalus exclamation mark or point

joining me Leon Cox in this issue Chris O'Regan can I get in please knock knock come here

do you nasty out here burn burn in the acid smug. Chris Worthington.

Turn the shields on and fry him.

And Jesse Fuchs.

This podcast has only two mandates.

Don't lose money and don't embarrass Leon.

Well, if anything, does the second one, it's Leon himself.

So if I may reference myself in the third person.

Anyway, Rescue on Fractylus is a single player first person 3D sci-fi shoot and rescue game.

Originally just a rescue game.

More on that later.

It was developed by Lucasfilm Games,

the then brand new interactive electronic entertainment wing of the Mighty Lucasfilm, who had had an enormous amount of success with the original Star Wars trilogy

from 1977 to 1983.

This game was known early on in development as Rebel Rescue, as David Fox and his team were

thinking, you know, let's make a Star Wars game.

The mandate had already been handed down from George Lucas that these games were not to be Star Wars, but it was specifically

that they couldn't use Star Wars characters. So David Fox, I believe, attempted to persuade them

that they could use Star Wars, the wider Star Wars universe, in a way which would seem to make perfect sense.

And obviously, umpteen thousand or at least a couple of hundred Star Wars games have done in years since.

But as we've discussed before, Lucas, for whatever reason, perhaps he was

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