Star Warped is a parody

Parody

A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...

 video game, set in the Star Wars

Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...

 universe. It was created by Parroty Interactive

Parroty Interactive

Parroty Interactive, of Larkspur, California, was a video game developer, active during the 1990s; the company is no longer in business.Parroty created a number of notable parody video games for the PC and Apple Macintosh...

, which was a division the game's publisher, Palladium Interactive. Star Warped was released in late 1997, with versions for the Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 PC

Personal computer

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 and Apple Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 operating systems. The game is no longer in publication.

Overview

The game is set in the Modesto, California home of two die-hard Star Wars fans, Brian and Aaron. Game play primarily consists of a series of mini-games, including 'Whack! the Ewok' and 'Flawed Fighters', a spoof of fighting games such as Mortal Kombat. Characters include Leia I. Joe (a Princess Leia and G.I. Joe

G.I. Joe

G.I. Joe is a line of action figures produced by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces with the Action Soldier , Action Sailor , Action Pilot , Action Marine and later on, the Action Nurse...

 spoof), Cool-Handless Luke (Luke Skywalker

Luke Skywalker

Luke Skywalker is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the original film trilogy of the Star Wars franchise, where he is portrayed by Mark Hamill. He is introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, in which he is forced to leave home, and finds himself apprenticed to the Jedi master...

 with a missing hand and a pun on the film Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Paul Newman. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from Pearce's 1965 novel of the same name. The film features George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D...

), and Pizza-Flipping Greedo (Greedo as a pizza chef). The game also has several humorous items such as "scrapped scripts", "gene splicer", and "Tell you, I Will". Because Star Warped was created and released two years before The Phantom Menace, the game only references the original movie trilogy, although at several points "in-game" it does provide fake information about the then-upcoming movies.