Most arcade games based on a film licence

As of September 2015, there had been eight official arcade games based on the Star Wars franchise. In chronological order, these were the original vector classic Star Wars (Atari; 1983), Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Atari; 1984), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Atari; 1985), Star Wars Arcade (Sega; 1993), Star Wars Trilogy Arcade (Sega; 1998), Star Wars Racer Arcade (Sega; 2000), Star Wars Starfighter (Tsunami Visual Tech; 2003), and the Star Wars: Battle Pod (Bandai Namco; 2014).

There was also an unlicensed Star Wars arcade game released in 1979 (manufacturer unknown), which was a bootleg of the popular Galaxy Wars (Taito; 1979).

In addition, there have also been four official Star Wars pinball machines as of the same date, including The Empire Strikes Back Pinball (A. Hankin; 1980), Star Wars Pinball (Data East; 1992), Star Wars Trilogy Pinball (Sega Pinball; 1997) and Star Wars Episode I Pinball (WMS; 1999).