Shadow Puppets Of The Empire

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Shadows Of The Empire was a multimedia marketting project meant to revive interest in the Star Wars brand. Although there was no movie to correspond to the line, there was however a Comic book, a toy line and a video-game which was among the launch software available for the Turbo Duo video gaming system. There was also a "theatrical score" released with tunes to play as you read the comic and anybody who does this is a total dork.

Taking place between Star Wars 4 and Star Wars 5, the series heavily featured the character Dash Rendar as a substitute for Han Solo who spent much of the series frozen in carbonite. The disposable alternative to the empire was the Black Sun criminal cartel, lead by the evil Prince Xizor (pronounced "Prince Cheesor") and his robot wife Guro. (However Xizor was secretly employed by Emperor Palpatine). Boba Fett also made several appearances for no reason.

At the end of the series Dash Rendar grows to over 22 feet tall.

[edit] Videogame

Available for the NEC Turbo Duo, the game was an early display of the system's power, as it displayed over 6 modes of play. The game also boasted "AI" but no it really just had nice sound effects.

• Flying around in a Snowspeeder - this level inspired much of the game Rogue Squadron.
• Typical action levels, which could be played in 3rd person or first person.
• On-rails space levels wherin Dash had to control the guns to blast incoming bombs and TIE fighters firing bombs.
• Free-space levels.
• A puzzle mode involving brick-stacking.

Look, just use the "_Wampa_Stompa" code to take control of the enemy and have the stormtroopers kill each other for you.

[edit] Soundtrack

Had a distinct lack of tunes by Max Reebo.

[edit] Comic Book

Despite being published by Dark Horse Comics, it didn't actually feature any crossovers with Robocop, Terminator, or Predator. Art work was drawn by Kellian Plunkett who was hired mostly because he/she has a name that sounds like a Star Wars character. The series ran for six issues and portions of each issue were reprinted in Nintendo Power magazine, which is weird since the game didn't come out for a Nintendo system.