Escape from Death Star

Escape from Death Star
Developer(s)	Kenner Products
Number of players	2 to 4
Timeline	0 BBY
Objective	"Be the first player to reach the Rebel Base after escaping from the Trash Compactor of Death Star"
Ages of players	7 and up 8 and up (Reproduction)
Release date	October 1977 June 1978 (Japan) May 2019 (Reproduction)
UPC	630509834709

Escape from Death Star was a board game that was released by Kenner in 1977. It was based on the events of A New Hope.

Gameplay

The players' mission was to move character tokens (Han/Chewbacca and Luke/Leia) to the Control Room and Tractor Beam to get the Death Star Blueprints. After this, players made their way to the Millennium Falcon and jump into hyperspace.

Once there, the goal was to reach the rebel base with the Death Star blueprints. After battling and defeating several TIE/LN starfighters the game is won by the player first to arrive at the base with the plans.

Reproduction

In 2019, Hasbro released a reproduction of the original game — now including a new vintage style Grand Moff Tarkin action figure — as part of the Star Wars Retro Collection toy line.

Appearances

By type

Characters	Organisms	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

C-3PO Chewbacca Obi-Wan Kenobi Leia Organa Luke Skywalker Han Solo Wilhuff Tarkin Darth Vader

Organisms

Dianoga (as Trash Monster)

Droid models

Astromech droid R-series R2-series astromech droid Protocol droid 3PO-series protocol droid

Events

Battle of Yavin

Locations

Yavin 4 Great Temple (as Rebel Base)

Organizations and titles

Alliance to Restore the Republic Galactic Empire Stormtrooper

Sentient species

Human Wookiee

Vehicles and vessels

Death Star Detention Block AA-23 Docking Control Room 327 (as Control Room) Garbage Compactor 3263827 (as Trash Compactor) Starfighter T-65B X-wing starfighter TIE/LN starfighter YT-1300 light freighter Millennium Falcon

Weapons and technology

Blaster Blaster pistol DL-44 heavy blaster pistol Blaster rifle E-11 blaster rifle Lightsaber Obi-Wan Kenobi's third lightsaber Darth Vader's lightsaber Tractor beam

Miscellanea

Death Star plans (as Death Star Blueprints) Medal of Bravery

Sources

• "Galactic Bazaar: Going Global" — Star Wars Galaxy Magazine 6
• Escape From Death Star in the StarWars.com Cargo Bay (content now obsolete; backup link) (Kenner)
• Escape From Death Star (Canada) in the StarWars.com Cargo Bay (content now obsolete; backup link) (Parker Brothers)
• Escape From Death Star (Australia) in the StarWars.com Cargo Bay (content now obsolete; backup link) (Toltoys)
• Escape from Death Star (Japan) in the StarWars.com Cargo Bay (content now obsolete; backup link) (Takara)
• The Vintage Vault: 9 Classic Star Wars Board Games on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Star Wars Retro Collection (Pack: Escape from Death Star) (backup link)

External links

• "Escape from Death Star" Game Instructions (PDF) on Kenner Collector (archived from the original on December 31, 2015)
• Vintage Vault: Escape from the Death Star on Fantha Tracks (archived from the original on October 21, 2019)

In other languages

• Deutsch