Daily Star: Sci-Fi Saturday - The Entertainment Trilogy

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Description

Sci-Fi Saturday is a UK compilation of three discs that were given away in successive Saturday editions of The Star newspaper.

  • Disc 1: contains three previously televised programs from popular series
    • Battlestar Galactica - The Lost Warrior episode
    • Buck Rogers In The 25th Century - the Vegas In Space episode
    • Quantum Leap - Star Crossed
  • Disc 2 contains theme music for Star Wars (A New Hope), Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Joe 90, Captain Scarlet, and The X-Files together with a further eight bonus tracks.
  • Disc 3 contains the following Arcade Games, all of which are clones/variants of popular titles. They are all played with a keyboard, can be played by one or two people and have high score tables and sound, they are;
    • Roids: This is an Asteroids clone with solid looking rocks and alien space craft.
    • Space Raiders: This is a Space Invaders variant
    • Hopper: A Frogger game but instead of taking a frog across roads and rivers the player is guiding a robot home while avoiding similar obstacles
    • Bounce & Break: This is a Breakout-like game where the player has to keep a ball on play until it has hit and destroyed a pattern of coloured blocks
    • Light Racer: A TRON style Light Cycle game
    • Bubble Puzzle: A Bust-A-Move variant where the player uses a bubble canon to clear a pattern of coloured bubbles
    • Gobbler: This is a Pac-Man variant played on a steel grid floating in space.
    • Laser Command: This is a Missile Command game in which the player has two laser towers to shoot incoming flying saucers which are trying to kill out robots

The first disc came in a three panel, card, gatefold holder intended to hold the full set. Weeks two and thee came in a separate card slipcases
This collection of games was released commercially as Retro for Windows and PlayStation 2.

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