Star Wars: The Interactive Video Board Game



Star Wars: The Interactive Video Game Board, subtitled Assault on the Death Star, was a board game created by Hasbro in 1996. It is notable for including a VHS tape of newly shot scenes of Darth Vader walking down the halls of the Death Star.

Characters

 * Darth Vader

Species

 * Humans

Locations

 * Death Star II
 * D'rinba IV
 * Endor

Vehicles/vessels

 * Death Star II
 * Colossus

Contents

 * 1 60-Minute VHS videotape
 * 1 Game Board
 * 13 Star Wars Figures
 * 36 Cardboard Explosives
 * 6 Force Level Indicators
 * 2 Combat Disks
 * 1 Death Star Reactor Core
 * 80 Cards
 * Die and Instructions

The Vader footage


The live-action video on the VHS tape was filmed in 1996. For the new scenes, Hasbro brought back David Prowse to play Vader and James Earl Jones to do the voice of Vader. Some of the crew from A New Hope returned as well to shoot the scenes. The scenes would play on an hour-long tape, during which the players would be playing the board game, trying to reach their goal before the tape ends. At various points during the tape, Vader would appear warning in a way the players of what he was about to do. In the video, he wants to turn the Death Star II away from the forest moon of Endor to attempt to destroy another planet.