Really, as far as I know the video games that most mirror the Star Wars situation are probably the Dragon Warrior games. In the mid-1990s Enix made "enhanced" versions of the first three games for the Super Nintendo. Besides having better graphics, they also dumbed down some of the challenge. These versions have been constantly re-released ever since.
And while we're at it, old games in general have a bad tendancy to become unavailable after only a few years... not like the movie industry where everything is always preserved and continually re-released.