Destroy Death Star was a board game released by Palitoy in the United Kingdom in 1978.[2] It shared its name with a game released a year earlier in the United States.[3]
Gameplay[]
Destroy Death Star was a battery operated game in which players moved fighter squadrons (shaped pieces of transparent brightly colored day-glo perspex) across a blue translucent plastic game board. Players had the chance to destroy enemy targets (and the Death Star itself) by estimating the target co-ordinates from their position using two rotational knobs (one for horizontal, one for vertical) and then pressing the firing button. This operated a small bulb underneath the game board, and if the light was directly on a target and illuminated by the bulb, the target was destroyed and removed from the playing board. If it was not directly on a target, it was considered a miss.[1]
The game was entirely based on the Palitoy Parker games named Salvo! which was released in 1976.[4] Cosmetic changes were made to Salvo! to transform it from a battleship-based game to a space arena.[5]
Sources[]
The Vintage Vault: 9 Classic Star Wars Board Games on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)- "Destroy the Death Star" — Star Wars Insider 195
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars: Destroy Death Star Game on BoardGameGeek (backup link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Copyright printed on game's box
- ↑
The Vintage Vault: 9 Classic Star Wars Board Games on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑
"Destroy the Death Star" — Star Wars Insider 195
- ↑ Salvo! (1976) on BoardGameGeek (backup link)