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Star Wars on the Intellivision! What more could you ask for?

Graphics: 4 Sound: 3 Replay Value: 3 Notes: 1-player; Easter Egg Screen Shots

It was really exciting when Star Strike came out–what with Mattel's effective marketing campaign. For any Star Wars freak, this game was a dream come true! It has decent graphics, and it's cute how you can deceive your opponents into crashing into the surface of the space station. Guess they're not the best pilots. The first time we played, we had to be sure to let the Earth explode to see the most impressive video game effect yet–the total destruction of a planet. Pretty cool! Once you've played this a bit, it's actually a pretty easy game, so its replay value is rather so-so. Even after not having played it for 5 or 10 years, it's pretty easy. On a good-sized TV, the down-the-trench 3D effect is still good. Best Score: 7842 [Missed one of the baddies, darn it!]

A total of six Star Strike box variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	5161-0910	1981	U.S.A.	Trayless pocket; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	5161-0910	1981	Hong Kong	Plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
	Mattel Electronics	5161-0510	1981	Hong Kong	French-Canadian; plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada on back; shrinkwrapped copies may have a sticker about a Star Strike sweepstakes that apparently ran only in Canada
	Mattel Electronics	5161-0410	1981	Hong Kong	International version; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom; slots on back for manual; slots inside for overlays
	Intellivision Inc.	5161	1981	U.S.A.	Standard Intellivision, Inc. box
	Sears	5379-0910	1981	U.S.A.	Trayless pocket; blue game title on top and back; game title on top of box rotated 180 deg. compared to the standard case

It is rumored that two versions of the ROM exist. Ostensibly, later versions fixed the bug that this warning slip is meant to help you avoid. I have not personally verified this yet.

A total of fourteen Star Strike manual variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	5161-0920	1981	U.S.A.	Green and blue artwork
	Mattel Electronics	5161-0920	1981	U.S.A.	Blue monochrome artwork; includes notice about controller bug
	Mattel Electronics	5161-0920	1981	Hong Kong	Green and blue artwork; submitted by Hankster
	Mattel Electronics	5161-0720	1981	Hong Kong	French-Canadian
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	5161-0820	1981	Hong Kong	NEED CONFIRMATION; British English release; Green and blue artwork; submitted by Hankster
	Mattel Electronics	5161-0121	1981	Hong Kong	German version; standard light green / white / dark blue artwork; title not localized
	Mattel Electronics	5161-0161	1981	Hong Kong	Dutch; noted, and image contributed by cmart; need confirmation of part number, other appearance details
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	5161-0111	1981	Hong Kong	French version; blue monochrome artwork
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	5161-0111	1981	Hong Kong	French version from Mattel Electronics Frfance; blue and green artwork
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	5161-0131	1981	Hong Kong	Italian version; green and (light) blue artwork
	Mattel Electronics	PC-5161-0920	1981	U.S.A.	PlayCable version; green and blue artwork
	Bandai	5161-0201	None		Bandai version of Star Strike; image courtesy of Hankster
	Intellivision Inc.	5161-0920	None	U.S.A.	Accordion-style folding
	Sears	5379-0920	1981	U.S.A.

Supplemental Materials

The following supplemental materials have been found for Star Strike.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	5161-0070	None	U.S.A.	Notice regarding bug using left controller

A total of three Star Strike overlay variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	5161-4289	1981	U.S.A.
	Phil Boland	49 75231	1981	U.S.A.	Part of the Sears Super Video Arcade Overlay Set (2013)
	Intellivision Productions	N/A	2014	U.S.A.	Part of the Supplemental Overlay Pack for Intellivision Flashback

A total of four Star Strike label variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None	U.S.A.	Origin upper right, ™ upper right
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None	Hong Kong	Origin upper right, ™ upper right
	Intellivision Inc.	N/A	1981	U.S.A.	Origin lower right; © I.I. 1981 to left of origin; ™ small, centered vertically on right edge; smaller label, rounded corners
	Phil Boland	N/A	None		Part of the Sears Super Video Arcade Overlay Set (2013)

	Title screen for Star Strike.
	Undoubtedly, when introduced, this screen set the standard for immersion in a game. The illusion of speed is nicely accomplished.

Star Strike Easter Egg

Credit: Joe Zbiciak's post to the intvprog group on Yahoo on 23. March, 2001

Left Controller: Press and hold: [1], [9] OR [3], [7]
Press Reset
Easter Egg: The title screen flashes though a bunch of graphics. According to Not Your Average Joe, what's happening is that the Inty is "incrementing all of the locations of display memory rather quickly". Click on the image to download an MPEG1 movie of what this looks like in action.

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