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Port of the Atari VCS game of the same name.

Graphics: 2 Sound: 2 Replay Value: 2 Notes: 1- or 2-player game Screen Shots

This is an obvious port of the Atari VCS game–it doesn't add anything new to exercise the Intellivision. It's an average game, and pretty easy to play indefinitely (at least on skill level 1). Your fingers will go numb shooting at the walkers. Control of your snowspeeder is rather difficult, too. The box art is cool, though, and hey–it's Star Wars! Best Score: 9999 [Game 1, rolls over at 10000, quit after rollover]

A total of three Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back box variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Parker Brothers	6050	1983	U.S.A.	Sturdy box with separate lid; plain tagboard tray; © 1982, 1983
	Parker Brothers	A6050	1983	Canada	French-Canadian Edition; sturdy box with separate lid; tagboard tray has Parker Video logo and Video Game-Jeu; © 1983
	Parker Brothers	941501	1983	U.S.A.	International Edition; languages on back include: English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch; sturdy box with separate lid; plain tagboard tray; © 1983

Here we see the different versions of the back of the box for The Empire Strikes Back.

It's official! As reported by decle, and confirmed by Marco: The international version of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back ROM does not play the Star Wars theme music when you reset the game. There's no convenient way to discern which carts have this ROM in them, as the shell and label have no differences. This is based on getting an shrink-wrapped copy of the International copy of the game and opening it. It has the ROM variant in question, and the cartridge looks identical to all the other copies that have passed through these grimy little hands. Loose copies in the wild will not be identifiable as ROM variants w/o manual testing. :(

A total of three Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back manual variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Parker Brothers	N/A	1983	U.S.A.	No part number; © 1983; manual has contact info on back for U.S.A., Australia and New Zealand and the U.K.
	Parker Brothers	N/A	1983	Canada	French version shipped in French-Canadian release; black & white; no part number; © 1983; manual has contact info on back for Canada
	Parker Brothers	N/A	1983		International Edition; instructions in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch; no part number; no origin; © 1983

Only one version of the overlay has been found for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

Only one version of the label has been found for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Parker Brothers	N/A	1983		Standard Parker Brothers label; no origin listed; © 1982, 1983

	Title screen for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
	It's just like the Atari VCS version!

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