Star Wars: The Interactive Video Board Game

After the Rebel Alliance's failed attempt to destroy the second Death Star, Emperor Palpatine commands Darth Vader to assume control of the battle station and relocate it secretly to the forest moon of Endor for completion. Soon after, he discovers a significant Rebel supply depot on the planet D'rinba IV and redirects the Death Star's course to that planet, intending to obliterate it with the station's superlaser. Upon intercepting this intelligence, the Alliance gathers a group of Force-sensitive individuals to infiltrate the station and disable it. However, Vader quickly becomes aware of their presence and places the station on high alert. The situation devolves into a race against the clock for the infiltrating team, who must strive to accomplish their objective while evading the station's stormtrooper forces and, later in the mission, preventing a team member's descent to the Dark side of the Force.

The game mechanics rely on cards and dice, and it involves the assembly of several three-dimensional parts.

• 1 VHS videotape, 60 minutes in length
• 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

A VHS tape is included in the game, which players watch on a television as they play. The tape depicts Vader's arrival on the second Death Star to take command of the station in order to destroy a Rebel Alliance supply base located on the planet D'rinba IV. The player characters are given the task of preventing him from doing so.

The tape incorporates scenes from the original trilogy along with footage specifically filmed for the game by Gilbert Taylor, who was the cinematographer for A New Hope. The footage, which was filmed over a two-day period, features David Prowse and James Earl Jones returning to portray Darth Vader as the physical actor and voice actor, respectively. Prowse wore an authentic Vader costume obtained from the Lucasfilm Archives. Frank Walsh (www.fwalsh.com) handled the Production Design, later designing sets for the Netflix series Lost in Space. Dick George Productions, who had previously contributed to some of the sets for A New Hope, constructed the sets.

This game received a mention in The Dark Forces Saga, a set of online adventure scenarios for the Wizards of the Coast Star Wars RPG line, which were published on their website. This series, penned by Abel G. Peña, establishes four of the VCR game's player characters as canon: Kyle Katarn (from Star Wars: Dark Forces), Shira Brie (from the Marvel Comics Star Wars series), Corwin Shelvay (from West End Games's Star Wars RPG material), and Erling Tredway (also from West End Games's Star Wars RPG material).