All the craze surrounding Star Wars: Battlefront 2, and my getting caught up in the mass return to EA's 2017 title, scratched an itch I had long forgotten. The humming of lightsabers, iconic blaster sounds, and a brilliantly beautiful alien galaxy spurred me to revisit this classic franchise.
As a kid, I was a Star Wars buff like any other. I owned a lightsaber myself, though not one as cool as in the movies. It was plastic and had to be pointed towards the ground to unravel its cones. But to me, it was real, as was Jabba the Hutt, his palace, Tatooine, and every other bit and part of that galaxy far, far away. I watched and rewatched the movies countless times as a child and spent countless hours on the classic Star Wars: Battlefront 2, the one launched in 2005, which brought me ever closer to that unique and strange world.
