Star Wars: The Interactive Video Board Game
| Assault on the Death Star | |
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Cover graphics of the board game
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| Manufacturer(s) | Hasbro |
| Actor(s) | David Prowse |
| Voice actor(s) | James Earl Jones |
| Publisher(s) | Parker Brothers/Hasbro |
| Publication date | 1996 |
| Genre(s) | board game |
| Language(s) | English |
| Players | 3 to 6 |
| Playing time | 1 hour |
| Random chance | dice rolling |
| Media type | VHS tape and board game |
Star Wars: The Interactive Video Board Game: Assault on the Death Star is a board game and accompanying VHS video tape, released by Parker Brothers in 1996. It is notable for including newly shot scenes twenty years after the first Star Wars film, featuring Darth Vader walking down the halls of the original Death Star set, in a performance reprised by David Prowse, James Earl Jones, and director of photography Gilbert Taylor. The game led to the canonization of four new characters in the Star Wars universe.
Following a failed attempt by the Rebel Alliance to destroy the second Death Star, Emperor Palpatine orders Darth Vader to take command of the newly reconstructed battlestation and move it to the forest moon of Endor to be completed in secret. Shortly thereafter, he learns of a major Rebel supply base on the planet D'rinba IV and diverts its course to the planet, intending to use the battlestation's superlaser to destroy it. Intercepting this information, the Alliance assembles a team of Force-sensitive individuals to sneak onboard and disable the station. However, Vader soon learns of their presence and has the station put on alert. The situation becomes a race against time for the members of the infiltration party, as they must attempt to succeed in their mission while avoiding the station's stormtrooper contingent and, late in the mission, a party member's fall to the dark side of the Force.
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