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For those of you who still have your original Stars! packaging, what does it look like?

I've created this page with three 'box covers', but all I know about the first two is that the former blue lightning/red circle cover is the thumbnail from (I thought Home of the Underdogs but I originally said at Wikia I got it from Gamespot) and the second one with the chevony-star logo came from Amazon. The third 'Xplosiv' cover I scanned myself from the DVD case slip/cover thingy I purchased from Tuomas in 2002.

What does yours look like? If it's different to mine (including the first two) Can you email me a scan? or upload it to the wiki? Where did you buy it from? when? How much did you pay?

[Updated on: Sat, 25 June 2011 05:50]

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Mine looks like the first example. The original. Except your picture is clipped on the left. To the left there is a label, sideways from top to bottom that says: "THE PREMIERE SPACE STRATEGY GAME".

I bought it from Empire Interactive.
When and how much? Late 1990's or 2000? How much?
After more than a decade and some losses of data in a few hard drive crashes, parts of my memory crashed too. LOL

Inside the paper manual it says:
(C)1996 Entertainment International (UK) Ltd. All Right Reserved
Published by Empire Interactive

Oh, and the top of the back cover it says:
"THIS BOX CONTAINS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO RULE THE UNIVERSE"

But that hasn't happened yet.

EDIT:
I probably bought Stars! in mid-1999.
I saved some files in a past games folder, which survived hard drive crashes. The oldest games I found I played, based on the date of the xy file, were three games I joined in Nov and Dec 1999. Back then, some of those games were by email, I started on AutoHost later.

According to my records, in 2001 I didn't sleep.
No way did I get any sleep that year.
I found 16 games with xy files dated somewhere in 2001.

[Updated on: Sat, 25 June 2011 12:24]

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BlueTurbit & Void, are they actual boxes? or DVD cases?

Can I have scans?


also...2001? that was a good year! If they were mostly duels or blitzes you might have gotten *some* sleep...

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Mine's the 3rd one, only with the image filling the whole box, no frame, and a smallish Xplosiv logo. It also says "REAL GAME PLAY".

After a couple years toying with the limited shareware version, one bright morning I stumbled upon a magazine rack where one of the games mags included a couple CDs, and one of them was Stars!

Alas, I didn't save the mag itself. I don't remember reading it at all.

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gible wrote on Sat, 25 June 2011 19:31

BlueTurbit & Void, are they actual boxes? or DVD cases? Can I have scans?

Oops! My bad. Had a brain fart? I was thinking outside the box?

I think my focus switched to CD cover when I saw your pictures and my CD cover was a match to the first picture. Then on the CD back cover, at top, it says "this box contains everything...". I thought the box was the same front and back. But box is gone.
Wasn't too long ago I did some cleaning and a whole bunch of empty boxes got trashed.

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BlueTurbit, Void, m.a@stars, ManicLurch, slimdrag00n: I have emailed ya'll asking for scans of stuff. Pretty please.

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I'd like to second that.

Any good quality scan of either the box, the manual, the CD case, whatever, will be sent to Abandonia.com to host it there alongside the review.

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gible wrote on Tue, 12 July 2011 16:23

BlueTurbit, Void, m.a@stars, ManicLurch, slimdrag00n: I have emailed ya'll asking for scans of stuff. Pretty please.

Got it. I'll see what I can do. Hmmm...I don't have a color scanner handy, would a photograph work?

Cheers,
Void

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gible wrote on Tue, 12 July 2011 19:23

BlueTurbit, Void, m.a@stars, ManicLurch, slimdrag00n: I have emailed ya'll asking for scans of stuff. Pretty please.

Here you go. Includes the front of the Technical Reference manual.

Box front.
http://starsautohost.org/stars_pic1.jpg

Box back.
http://starsautohost.org/stars_pic2.jpg

Technical Reference
http://starsautohost.org/stars_pic3.jpg

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Ron wrote on Wed, 13 July 2011 14:54

Here you go. Includes the front of the Technical Reference manual.

Awesome! Fingers crossed uploading is fixed
Do you remember where/when you bought it and how much?

Void wrote on Wed, 13 July 2011 12:47

Got it. I'll see what I can do. Hmmm...I don't have a color scanner handy, would a photograph work?

Photographs would be fine. From your previous reply I think yours are the same as Ron's?

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Ron wrote on Wed, 13 July 2011 04:54

http://starsautohost.org/stars_pic3.jpg

Fancy that. That's the one I got as my CD case cover, down to the weapon the guy is holding.

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m.a@stars wrote on Wed, 13 July 2011 17:08

Ron wrote on Wed, 13 July 2011 04:54 http://starsautohost.org/stars_pic3.jpg Fancy that. That's the one I got as my CD case cover, down to the weapon the guy is holding.

It looks like one of Asimov's book covers I remember reading..

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[Updated on: Wed, 13 July 2011 10:40]

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[Updated on: Wed, 13 July 2011 16:29]

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BlueTurbit wrote on Wed, 13 July 2011 22:16

Stars! CD back cover

Mine's definitely less exciting, but at least I got the main text in seven different European languages.

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