FWIW, when the deluxe giant-screen two-player sit-down version was at the Tomorrowland Starcade at Disneyland (c. early 2000s), I remember the marquee just saying “Star Wars.” I specifically noticed that the game and all the instructions on the artwork were in Japanese, so that seems to debunk the theory that the Japanese cabinet bore the “Arcade” moniker.
I took another look at the commonly circulating Japanese flyer, and checked whether the tiny katakana underneath the title said “Arcade”, but nope, it’s just “Star Wars” in kana. I think this was just a case where they put “Arcade” on the 32X title to denote it as different from other Star Wars games, or (even more likely) hype up that “look, this can do reasonably accurate reproductions of recent arcade games that existing systems could never hope to handle” angle that every new console used into the 00s.
It confused me as a kid, when all I had ever seen in the arcades was the Atari game, but the title could have been more effective in Japan where gamers would have actually been aware of the source arcade game. (Though it obviously still didn’t save the 32X from being as big of a flop in Japan, if not bigger, than it was in North America.)
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