I used to make my own "sarlac pit" by taking the top of a shoe box and cutting out teeth in the middle of the box. For it's belly I would staple a plastic bag around the rims of the box. The figures would obviously then get eaten by the sarlac and fall into the bag. (Its belly) It actually worked out quite nicely. 😀 And of course I used any styrofoam I could get my hands on for Hoth scenes.
Had Escape From Death Star. yep. heheh. Still have it actually. Two of them. One that we destroyed as kids and in the late 80’s I got another one that was complete cause of the nostalgia factor. Still have our Hoth Ice Planet Advent Game that we had as kids. Somehow we didn’t destroy this one and have all the pieces still. I know we liked playing with those small Millennium Falcons. So I’m surprised we didn’t lose them all. We also had that Battle at Sarlacc’s Pit Return of the Jedi Game. I remember having it for a long time and that we kept all the pieces, but I did get talked into trading it eventually. I traded it for a Kenner Imperial Shuttle, large size Kenner C-3PO and a Kenner Landspeeder plus some random pieces the guy had. I distinctly remember that trade because even at the time I thought I was getting the better end of the deal. He was just getting out of collecting toys and was focusing on collecting any and all board games of the time. Just goes to show, that a deals a good deal if you are the one that’s happy with it.
I didn't have none of these because they were before my time...💁♂️ I never really played many board games as a child, but I sure did like Monopoly whenever I got the chance to play it...💯✔
Holy crapola!.You did a VIDEO on the Mad board game?.I had no idea.Man,I loved that growing up!.That was one of the ones you could play over and over.That and the Happy Days board game were awesome unheralded classics..Gotta see that video!.
I got the Escape from the Death Star game back in 1978. My cousins and I would play it often and have fun. I still have this same game with all the pieces and in very good condition. Thank you for posting this video, it brought back a lot of great memories 😊
I need to know which figure was translated the worst from screen to toy...and why did Darth Vader wear a weird cloak with hood/lapels thing instead of a cape? It was like a really long wizard vest.
A friend had the Escape From The Death Star board game. The only one I had was the Battle at Sarlacc's Pit. I used the mini-diecast figures from my Micro Bespin Collection playsets with the Sarlacc game, so Lando made an appearance that way. I should dig out my Sarlacc game, I bet my micro-collection figures are still in that box.
My 4th grade teacher had the Escape From The Death Star game as a rainy day toy for us to play during recess. I remember going through it during a rainy day at recess,but didn't get around to playing it.
I had the Sarlacc game as a kid, but I mostly just played with it as a toy. (Same with the Pac-Man game, which had various plastic Pac-Men that could eat marbles.) I recognize the boxes for the first Ewok game you showed and the Yoda: The Jedi Master game. We must have bought those and only played them once or twice, because I only remember seeing the boxes around my parents' house.
I did use the Sarlaac put game for my action figures.It was in a smaller scale but it made sense to me when I was a kid..I also used to put a cup of water under the Sears Bespin cardboard playset.And then put the cup in the freezer and freeze my figures..I remember freezing them would loosen their joints over time..
I still have my escape from Death Star game but after about five years it fell apart but i actually got one for my birthday when i was 9 and that one I opened and played once.and still have it to this day
I had the Sarlac Pit Return Of The Jedi game. The figures with it didn't look as pretty as they did on the box or in a tv commercial though. I think my oldest brother used to have the Escape From The Death Star board game.
Sarlacc Pitt bought at Lionel Playworld, always hated that the figures looked NOTHING like the pics on the back. Bought it again Brand New still in the wrapping and customized the Han and Luke.
I had to laugh at that vintage add where the kids shake hands at the end of the game. If I recall correctly, me and brothers ended up throwing punches at each other before the game ended.
i got one of these for Christmas in the late 70s - pretty sure it was Escape From Death Star i always felt bad whenever my mom bought us something that should have been cool, but just wasn't i feel like we tried to play it once or twice but just couldn't get into it or figure it out on the other hand i DID complete my trash compactor scene puzzle and subsequently mount and frame it
Only had the Sarlacc game. It was fun. The Blow up the Death Star game is fun as well, but it needs a house rule or two to keep it from going on and on and on and on
I never heard of some of these games. I have the Escape and Destroy Death Star Games. I think Destroy was pretty complicated, having that turning Death Star, with Vader appearing around the edge, and then having to land directly on the destroy spot. I don't suppose there's videos of people playing these games. I also had Scooby Doo and Great Grape Ape games.
3:43 I had this one NUMEROUS TIMES here in the UK... Our board was slightly different but otherwise it was EXACTLY the same... I do remember that VERY copy I had I ended up getting from a Rummage / Jumble Sale - My Parents were not rich so getting it new was a pipe dream! (And anyway - They saved to get me the BEST Star Wars stuff they could at Christmas!!!)
I had Escape the Death Star as a kid....but it does not even come close to comparing to my Death Star World for the amount of fun I had with it...even when I played with them alone. I didn't have Attack the Death Star as a kid, but I sure wanted one....the first time I bought something on ebay was the game, and I still enjoy it....even added extra fighters and tie fighters from the Star War Armada series to make things more interesting. Battle at Sarlacc's Pit is the last toy I would ever get as a kid....and after I sold everything and I became an adult...I regretted it. I actually have two copies of Battle at Sarlacc's Pit....got both copies for a total of $25.00...one if in case something goes missing or gets damage....ironic because I've only played with it twice since I got it over fifteen years ago. But I'm a collector....so that doesn't matter. But even as a kid, I found the rest of the game concepts lacking....they looked boring. I like a game with clashing forces....I got the board game of Battlestar Glactica and I never played it because you were fighting against other good guys to capture as Cylon Raider....what was the point of that??? I wanted to fight Cylons, not other colonial vipers. One of the most expensive Star Wars board games to collect is Queen's Gambit...from The Phantom Menace. But the ultimate best is Star Wars Miniatures. It is the largest game, with characters from all generations of the Star War Universe, including the Expanded Universe. I bleed thousands of dollars into that series and I never completed it. The only thing bad about it was Wizards of the West Coast never made enough maps for it. They probably could have made a fortune on maps alone. The other problem was the limitation Lucas placed on the company....one being they required at least one miniature of Luke and Vader in every set they produced. So there were a lot of copies of characters, when some character were never made....
Hmm... I had none of these games (but some of them look pretty cool). I *DID* have games from the West End Games Star Wars line: their own Escape From the Death Star which was A LOT OF FUN (played that in college with some friends in 1989 -1991). There was also an Attack On Hoth game that was also a whole lot of fun. West End Games also made an Endor game - but that was a ONE player game if I recall correctly and not as fun. Anyway, thought I would share my Star Wars board games experiences with you all. :)
I'm curious, however, because I'm in the UK yet got that game (as you say it was only in the US), but the more I think of it, the more I remember that my parents went to a toy fair as there was pretty much nothing Star Wars related in the shops at that time and I was obsessed with it. So it's possible they picked up a US import version of the game. I'd have to check to see if it was released by Palitoy (the UK distributor of all things Star Wars) or Kenner. They got me the official inflatable Lightsabre too - which definitely wasn't available at that time - and four of the 12" Kenner dolls. I've only Luke left now as I had to sell a large portion of my collection when I was in Uni. Got seriously ripped-off too. Still smarts.
What was even worse was the Qbert board game from 1983. Still my favorite arcade classic but like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, those three didn't translate well as a board game.
Play escape from the death star two or three times. Paid close attention to how the game would play out though. The game mechanics for interesting for me at that age
I had Yoda The Jedi Master bored...I mean, board game. I actually like board games, but this one was pretty bad. I only played it a couple of times, and it just got tossed in a box somewhere and eventually got ruined over time. Ah, memories. It feels like they could have tried a little harder with the development of the board games, as much effort as they put into every other product they put on the market.
I remember being so excited with my new "Escape from the Death Star" game that Christmas long, long ago. I was going to be able to recreate the wonder of helping my fellow rebels evade the clutches of the evil Empire... Then I opened it and found that it was just bits of cardboard with crappy photos stuck to it and was a variation on the old Hare and Hounds game. DISAPPOINTED!!! Still have it though, boxed and in near perfect hiber.. sorry, I mean condition. I think I played it only once and it's been stored in the attic ever since.
Just got the rerelease of Escape from Death Star with Retro Tarkin figure. Trying to get girlfriend to play it with me. Told her it wasn't a trivia game so maybe she will.
I found a copy of Escape from the Deathstar from the thrift store for 3.00. I knew it was lame, I've played it in 77'. It had 4 vintage black and white Star Wars photographs which made it worth it. All these old games are LAME!. A good modern Star Wars game is Star Wars Rebellion.
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I used to make my own "sarlac pit" by taking the top of a shoe box and cutting out teeth in the middle of the box. For it's belly I would staple a plastic bag around the rims of the box. The figures would obviously then get eaten by the sarlac and fall into the bag. (Its belly) It actually worked out quite nicely. 😀
And of course I used any styrofoam I could get my hands on for Hoth scenes.
Nice! That was back when kids still used creativity in their play. Before smartphones had taken over the world.
Thanks cool
Had Escape From Death Star. yep. heheh. Still have it actually. Two of them. One that we destroyed as kids and in the late 80’s I got another one that was complete cause of the nostalgia factor.
Still have our Hoth Ice Planet Advent Game that we had as kids. Somehow we didn’t destroy this one and have all the pieces still. I know we liked playing with those small Millennium Falcons. So I’m surprised we didn’t lose them all.
We also had that Battle at Sarlacc’s Pit Return of the Jedi Game. I remember having it for a long time and that we kept all the pieces, but I did get talked into trading it eventually. I traded it for a Kenner Imperial Shuttle, large size Kenner C-3PO and a Kenner Landspeeder plus some random pieces the guy had. I distinctly remember that trade because even at the time I thought I was getting the better end of the deal. He was just getting out of collecting toys and was focusing on collecting any and all board games of the time. Just goes to show, that a deals a good deal if you are the one that’s happy with it.
I had the Escape From The Death Star game.
I didn't have none of these because they were before my time...💁♂️ I never really played many board games as a child, but I sure did like Monopoly whenever I got the chance to play it...💯✔
Holy crapola!.You did a VIDEO on the Mad board game?.I had no idea.Man,I loved that growing up!.That was one of the ones you could play over and over.That and the Happy Days board game were awesome unheralded classics..Gotta see that video!.
Me kids and I still play it
I got the Escape from the Death Star game back in 1978. My cousins and I would play it often and have fun. I still have this same game with all the pieces and in very good condition. Thank you for posting this video, it brought back a lot of great memories 😊
I need to know which figure was translated the worst from screen to toy...and why did Darth Vader wear a weird cloak with hood/lapels thing instead of a cape? It was like a really long wizard vest.
I didn’t have any of these as a kid but I’ve just started to collect them all for mainly display purposes!got Escape & Sarlaac from Ebay last week 👍🏻
A friend had the Escape From The Death Star board game. The only one I had was the Battle at Sarlacc's Pit. I used the mini-diecast figures from my Micro Bespin Collection playsets with the Sarlacc game, so Lando made an appearance that way. I should dig out my Sarlacc game, I bet my micro-collection figures are still in that box.
My 4th grade teacher had the Escape From The Death Star game as a rainy day toy for us to play during recess. I remember going through it during a rainy day at recess,but didn't get around to playing it.
I had the Sarlacc game as a kid, but I mostly just played with it as a toy. (Same with the Pac-Man game, which had various plastic Pac-Men that could eat marbles.) I recognize the boxes for the first Ewok game you showed and the Yoda: The Jedi Master game. We must have bought those and only played them once or twice, because I only remember seeing the boxes around my parents' house.
I did use the Sarlaac put game for my action figures.It was in a smaller scale but it made sense to me when I was a kid..I also used to put a cup of water under the Sears Bespin cardboard playset.And then put the cup in the freezer and freeze my figures..I remember freezing them would loosen their joints over time..
I love the vintage Star Wars board games. I still play them sometimes with my kids.
I had the Parker Brothers Star Wars board game man I loved that.
I still have my escape from Death Star game but after about five years it fell apart but i actually got one for my birthday when i was 9 and that one I opened and played once.and still have it to this day
I had them all except for the ultimate space adventure and the ewok boardgames...Loved the sarlacc pit game
I had the Sarlac game and I used to play with it with my figures because it was the only Sarlac available. Plus, I never has the skiff.
I had the Saarlaac Game. I even still have a couple of guards, Han, and Luke.
I had the Sarlac Pit Return Of The Jedi game. The figures with it didn't look as pretty as they did on the box or in a tv commercial though. I think my oldest brother used to have the Escape From The Death Star board game.
I had no idea most of these other games existed (other than Escape from the Death Star). How could I have such a blind spot in my SW memories?
Sarlacc Pitt bought at Lionel Playworld, always hated that the figures looked NOTHING like the pics on the back. Bought it again Brand New still in the wrapping and customized the Han and Luke.
Even as a kid, I was not really into board games but YES I had "escape from Death Star" game.... ;)
I had to laugh at that vintage add where the kids shake hands at the end of the game. If I recall correctly, me and brothers ended up throwing punches at each other before the game ended.
I had several Star Wars board games but my last best friend had Escape from the Death Star.
I've still got mine !! Also, I enjoyed your Mad Game video !
Glad someone did :)
I loved the MAD Magazine board game. Me and my sister still talk about it.
i got one of these for Christmas in the late 70s - pretty sure it was Escape From Death Star
i always felt bad whenever my mom bought us something that should have been cool, but just wasn't
i feel like we tried to play it once or twice but just couldn't get into it or figure it out
on the other hand i DID complete my trash compactor scene puzzle and subsequently mount and frame it
I have the escape the death star game, but you just inspired me to get the sarlacc game. Never saw it before
Only had the Sarlacc game. It was fun. The Blow up the Death Star game is fun as well, but it needs a house rule or two to keep it from going on and on and on and on
I never heard of some of these games. I have the Escape and Destroy Death Star Games. I think Destroy was pretty complicated, having that turning Death Star, with Vader appearing around the edge, and then having to land directly on the destroy spot.
I don't suppose there's videos of people playing these games.
I also had Scooby Doo and Great Grape Ape games.
I had the Escape from the Death Star for Christmas 1977. I was 11 years old.
3:43 I had this one NUMEROUS TIMES here in the UK... Our board was slightly different but otherwise it was EXACTLY the same... I do remember that VERY copy I had I ended up getting from a Rummage / Jumble Sale - My Parents were not rich so getting it new was a pipe dream! (And anyway - They saved to get me the BEST Star Wars stuff they could at Christmas!!!)
OH! HELL! I just remembered Junkman - I FOUND THOSE PHOTOS!!! I will upload them to my Facebook and link you! :)
Done and dusted! facebook.com/Phoenix2312/media_set?set=a.10156865640061068&type=3 ENJOY! And keep up the great work!
I had Escape the Death Star as a kid....but it does not even come close to comparing to my Death Star World for the amount of fun I had with it...even when I played with them alone. I didn't have Attack the Death Star as a kid, but I sure wanted one....the first time I bought something on ebay was the game, and I still enjoy it....even added extra fighters and tie fighters from the Star War Armada series to make things more interesting. Battle at Sarlacc's Pit is the last toy I would ever get as a kid....and after I sold everything and I became an adult...I regretted it. I actually have two copies of Battle at Sarlacc's Pit....got both copies for a total of $25.00...one if in case something goes missing or gets damage....ironic because I've only played with it twice since I got it over fifteen years ago. But I'm a collector....so that doesn't matter. But even as a kid, I found the rest of the game concepts lacking....they looked boring. I like a game with clashing forces....I got the board game of Battlestar Glactica and I never played it because you were fighting against other good guys to capture as Cylon Raider....what was the point of that??? I wanted to fight Cylons, not other colonial vipers. One of the most expensive Star Wars board games to collect is Queen's Gambit...from The Phantom Menace. But the ultimate best is Star Wars Miniatures. It is the largest game, with characters from all generations of the Star War Universe, including the Expanded Universe. I bleed thousands of dollars into that series and I never completed it. The only thing bad about it was Wizards of the West Coast never made enough maps for it. They probably could have made a fortune on maps alone. The other problem was the limitation Lucas placed on the company....one being they required at least one miniature of Luke and Vader in every set they produced. So there were a lot of copies of characters, when some character were never made....
Enjoyed the video so much, went out and bought a sealed Yoda board game off EBay
I get 10% finders fee then right :)
I remember this game
Hmm... I had none of these games (but some of them look pretty cool). I *DID* have games from the West End Games Star Wars line: their own Escape From the Death Star which was A LOT OF FUN (played that in college with some friends in 1989 -1991). There was also an Attack On Hoth game that was also a whole lot of fun. West End Games also made an Endor game - but that was a ONE player game if I recall correctly and not as fun.
Anyway, thought I would share my Star Wars board games experiences with you all. :)
I'm curious, however, because I'm in the UK yet got that game (as you say it was only in the US), but the more I think of it, the more I remember that my parents went to a toy fair as there was pretty much nothing Star Wars related in the shops at that time and I was obsessed with it. So it's possible they picked up a US import version of the game. I'd have to check to see if it was released by Palitoy (the UK distributor of all things Star Wars) or Kenner. They got me the official inflatable Lightsabre too - which definitely wasn't available at that time - and four of the 12" Kenner dolls. I've only Luke left now as I had to sell a large portion of my collection when I was in Uni. Got seriously ripped-off too. Still smarts.
Some games were also released under Paltoys in the UK
I had the Star Wars Escape from the Death Star. I had to beg people to play the game and still could not get them to play.
What was even worse was the Qbert board game from 1983. Still my favorite arcade classic but like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, those three didn't translate well as a board game.
Play escape from the death star two or three times. Paid close attention to how the game would play out though. The game mechanics for interesting for me at that age
Aw junk man i knew the fealing
That Raiders of the lost Ark game u mentioned was absolutely terrible..But the art work on the box and game itsellf was incredible..
I ripped the sarlac game the first day, playing by myself 😭
Lol, Junkman once owned a Mr. T board game?
(Great video, by the way)
Yes! You was part of his Entourage in the game :)
I had Yoda The Jedi Master bored...I mean, board game. I actually like board games, but this one was pretty bad. I only played it a couple of times, and it just got tossed in a box somewhere and eventually got ruined over time. Ah, memories. It feels like they could have tried a little harder with the development of the board games, as much effort as they put into every other product they put on the market.
I like board games.
I remember being so excited with my new "Escape from the Death Star" game that Christmas long, long ago. I was going to be able to recreate the wonder of helping my fellow rebels evade the clutches of the evil Empire...
Then I opened it and found that it was just bits of cardboard with crappy photos stuck to it and was a variation on the old Hare and Hounds game. DISAPPOINTED!!!
Still have it though, boxed and in near perfect hiber.. sorry, I mean condition. I think I played it only once and it's been stored in the attic ever since.
Just got the rerelease of Escape from Death Star with Retro Tarkin figure. Trying to get girlfriend to play it with me. Told her it wasn't a trivia game so maybe she will.
good luck!
@@ThatJunkman Thanks brother.
I found a copy of Escape from the Deathstar from the thrift store for 3.00. I knew it was lame, I've played it in 77'. It had 4 vintage black and white Star Wars photographs which made it worth it. All these old games are LAME!. A good modern Star Wars game is Star Wars Rebellion.