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George Lucas is a techie at heart

NEW YORK--The day may never come when kids can make "Star Wars" movies in their bedrooms, but next year they'll have the equipment to do it with. The new Sony Playstation II, which is set for release in 2000, will allow its owners to create and play games in real time. It clocks at five million instructions a second. The computers that made "Star Wars -- Episode I: The Phantom Menace" were not that fast. They cost a lot of money. The PSII will retail at around $200.