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Electronic Battleship: Star Wars

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Noel

Electronic Battleship: Star Wars Play Electronic Battleship Star Wars style!
Customer Review: Just “Okay”
This is an okay game. The Star Wars theme, electronic action and various game scenarios (including advanced weapons) make it fun for kids and adults alike, but several flaws diminish the enjoyment.

The electronic aspect, indeed the big selling point to the game, was poorly exploited. It is really too bad since some more thoughtful design and more authentic audio clips would made it magnitudes better. The primary voice sounds like it came from a bad 1950′s science fiction movie, nothing you’d hear in any of the six movies. He annoyingly strings together fragments of short phrases. An Interrupt button will cut him off, but by the time your fingers get to the tiny button, it’s probably too late. A helpful Repeat button with repeat the last phrase. A “less verbose” option would be nice.

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Star Wars Celebration Iv: Concept R2-d2 & C-3po

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Noel

Star Wars Celebration Iv: Concept R2-d2 & C-3po Star Wars Celebration Iv: Concept R2-d2 & C-3po
Customer Review: Alternate Realities can be fun, or, How Star Wars “might have been”
Back in the early 80′s my brother bought a Ralph Mcquarrie “Star Wars” “Portfolio” with “Letterbox” style pre-production paintings for the “first” “Star Wars” film. I remember how my imagination ran wild with the “alternate” versions of all the main characters. I espescially dug the Luke vs. Darth Vader painting where Vader had this very wolf-like mask where the top helmet was much more Samuri looking and the mouth grill came out like the snout of a wolf (an Luke looked cool with the oxygen mask too).
The Stormtroopers looked cooler too, and they had lightsabers! and shields!
And the painting of the two droids was cool because R2 looked much more expressive and functional, and 3PO looked just like the robot from “Metropolis”.