Remembering the 30-year-old computer game that introduced me to Star Wars
I grew up in a Star Trek household, not a Star Wars one. More to the point, I wasn't even allowed to watch Star Wars when I was a kid, so I didn't see the original trilogy until I was nearly an adult—about 17 years old, as I recall.
For my then-fundamentalist Christian family, the so-called "Eastern mysticism" of Star Wars was a bridge too far, something that could apparently corrupt my impressionable young evangelical mind irreversibly. Star Trek was OK, though, because my parents didn't feel it condoned witchcraft...