Some Star Wars games want to recreate the Battle of Hoth. Others want to simulate the pressure of commanding an Imperial fleet, surviving a lightsaber duel, or deciding whether your Jedi should remain noble or start firing Force lightning at everyone who mildly irritates them. Star Wars: Yoda Stories wanted to sit quietly in a small Windows box while you avoided doing actual work. Released for Windows in 1997, Yoda Stories was LucasArts’ second and final Desktop Adventures game after Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures. Rather than delivering one large campaign, it generated compact missions intended to be completed in short sessions, usually within about an hour. A Game Boy Color version followed in 1999, although that adaptation made some substantial compromises. It sounds modest because it was modest. That was the entire point. As part of our complete archive of every Star Wars game ever released, Yoda Stories…
