Revenge of the Jedi: Game 2

[+Propane13]

Howdy folks,

 

There are 2 "Revenge of the Jedi" prototype boxes:

 

Game one we know about:

https://atariage.com/2600/prototypes/proto_SW1.jpg

 

Game two has a pic here, and sounds like it was never finished:

https://atariage.com/2600/prototypes/proto_SW2.jpg

 

Does anyone know what the back of the second box looks like?

Is there a fake mock-up, or any gameplay listed? Or, is it blank?

 

Thanks!

-John

 

[+Nathan Strum]

I worked at Toys R Us winter '83, and we had those boxes (one each) in the back room. They'd been sent to the store for the displays they used to have (empty boxes with a tag underneath them).

 

I knew they weren't going to produce the game (by then Return of the Jedi had been out awhile), so I stashed 'em away behind a shelf in the store room. But I got laid off (seasonal employee, don'tcha know) and never retrieved them. The store was remodeled and that area demolished years later. Wonder if anyone found them...

 

I have no clear recollection of the back of the boxes, but I thought there were screenshot mockups on them.

Edited December 17, 2013 by Nathan Strum

[schuwalker]

I worked at Toys R Us winter '83, and we had those boxes (one each) in the back room. They'd been sent to the store for the displays they used to have (empty boxes with a tag underneath them).

 

I knew they weren't going to produce the game (by then Return of the Jedi had been out awhile), so I stashed 'em away behind a shelf in the store room. But I got laid off (seasonal employee, don'tcha know) and never retrieved them. The store was remodeled and that area demolished years later. Wonder if anyone found them...

 

I have no clear recollection of the back of the boxes, but I thought there were screenshot mockups on them.

Great story - bad outcome:(

 

A few years back the box for Game II was on Ebay. I don't recall what platform it was though.

 

I know I did place a bid on it and for what I remember it wound up going over 1k.

 

I want to say, I vaguely recall the back of the box being blank...

[Tempest]

I thought I read somewhere that the game was started but not completed. I know I read something about it in an interview somewhere.