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Eons ago, there were two very nice board games that were SW based.

Game #1: Up to 4 players (or so) had to escape the Death Star. The map is a lot of circles connected by lines, and you rolled the dice to see how many circles you walked. There were some special rooms and random things (like in Monopoly) and you could end up losing your turn or in the trash compactor. To escape, you started in the Hangar, had to find two rooms - the Tractor Beam room and the Whatever the hell it is where the DS plans are stored - and then back to the hangar. I remember this game being canadian, because it was in english and french.

Game #2: You have a chess-like grid. One player plays the Rebels and the other plays the Imperials. Each piece is a base with a picture that only you can see, and initially you arrange them on your side as you please. Each turn, you move one piece, and if you want you can attack the piece to the left or right of yours (you have to show your piece to the opponent and vice versa) and each piece has specific weaknesses - like for instance the Death Star can kill anyone but gets killed by an X-Wing - and some pieces can't move.

Anyone ever played one of these games? I'm curious, maybe somebody still has them and I could somehow recreate them...

Is the second one like a Star Wars Stratego?

I don't know those, but I remember one where You went along spaces on a cool Death-Star themed board, against your team and Darth Vader (if vader makes it to the end of his little area, you all lose). The spaces had different things, or something (I haven't played in awhile, so I dunno) and the whole part of the game was to get to a section of the board where you shot marbles (proton torpedos) from a cool little plastic X-Wing down a little trench that had traps and stuff. Whoever shot the thing in the back of the Trench (which launches a little cardboard cut-out of Darth Vader up in the air, really funny) won. I think. I still have that game, just haven't played in years...

There was another one (I never played it, but saw some of the parts as a kid) where it was the Battle over the pit of Carkoon (ROTJ).

There was a "skiff" board and some gamorean guard pieces and a "Jabba" piece.

Other than SW monopoly,the only other SW board game I saw was some kind of minatures board game,where you get to replicate the battle of Endor and Hoth.

Slartibartfast wrote:Eons ago, there were two very nice board games that were SW based.

Game #1: Up to 4 players (or so) had to escape the Death Star. The map is a lot of circles connected by lines, and you rolled the dice to see how many circles you walked. There were some special rooms and random things (like in Monopoly) and you could end up losing your turn or in the trash compactor. To escape, you started in the Hangar, had to find two rooms - the Tractor Beam room and the Whatever the hell it is where the DS plans are stored - and then back to the hangar. I remember this game being canadian, because it was in english and french.

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That is Escape from the Death Star. I owned that game back when I was 6. I had a blast playing it but it has gone the way of all the games and toys of my childhood, into the trash a long time ago.

Yes, I also had "Escape from the Death Star".

Wasn't too difficult or entertaining game though....

I had the Escape from Death Star one but i lost it,the other one i have is SW monopoly never opened it still wrapped.