Cancelled German release of SWCCG
| Cancelled German release of SWCCG | |
|---|---|
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| Game | Star Wars CCG |
| Related product | Premiere Two-Player Introductory Game |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Queens Games |
| Planned | 1995–1998 |
| Status | Cancelled |
The cancelled German release of SWCCG was a planned German-language Star Wars CCG printing by Queens Games. Queens Games pulled the contract after Japanese sales, and the edition was never released.[1] Surviving artifacts are 1998 German-market magazine advertisements and a Modern Graphics German two-player rulebook.
In The Virginian-Pilot on 11 December 1995, Diane Tennant wrote that German might be the bigger translation problem. It needs more words and letters than English, and space on a card is limited.[2]
Queens Games
The 1998 advertisement lists Queens Games as Games Vertrieb for the Star Wars and Star Trek: The Next Generation Customizable Card Games in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. It prints telephone 0 22 41 / 49 00 0 and fax 0 22 41 / 49 00 80.[1] That telephone number is Queen Games GmbH of Troisdorf (Langbaurghstraße 7), Geschäftsführer Rajive Gupta.[3] On 24 December 2009 General-Anzeiger Bonn reported that Gupta had acquired the licences for Star Wars and Lord of the Rings collectible cards.[4]
Decipher outsourced European language support to Queens Games, and German was to be the first European language release.[1]
1998 magazine advertisements
In April 2022 Andy Talaga showed 1998 German-market magazine issues advertising a forthcoming German Premiere edition. Those issue numbers match Offizielles Star Wars Magazin #8–#11 (Miracle Images / OZ Verlag: 14 January, 15 April, 15 July, and 10 October 1998).[1][5]
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Offizielles Star Wars Magazin #8 (14 January 1998) -
Offizielles Star Wars Magazin #9 (15 April 1998) -
Offizielles Star Wars Magazin #10 (15 July 1998) -
Offizielles Star Wars Magazin #11 (10 October 1998)
One advertisement prints Deutsche Ausgabe STAR WARS™ Premiere: ab Frühjahr 1998. A facing spread shows a Premiere booster with radial how-to-play callouts.
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German Premiere advertisement. Image: BoardMatt (2022). -
German Premiere booster spread. Image: BoardMatt (2022).
The campaign ran in two issues. Later issues dropped it.[1]
Two-player rulebook
In May 2022 Talaga showed a 1998 German two-player rulebook printed by Modern Graphics, with Decipher logos and an all-German interior. Two-player sets sold in Germany were English Waddingtons kits. The booklet was prepared so players who could not read English could learn the game.[6]
Decipher's May 1999 product library lists the English Premiere Two-Player Introductory Set and does not list a German SKU.[7] Language editions of SWCCG are on Translations of SWCCG.
See also
- Offizielles Star Wars Magazin
- Deutsche Ausgabe STAR WARS Premiere (Offizielles Star Wars Magazin)
- Translations of SWCCG
- Spanish Premiere Two-Player Game rules booklet
- Premiere Two-Player Introductory Game
- Unreleased cards
- Cancelled Expansions
- Rulebooks
- Philipp Jacobs
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Star Wars CCG - Japanese Card Overview, BoardMatt, guest Andy Talaga (3 April 2022). Preserved copy: Internet Archive.
- ↑ Diane Tennant, House of Cards, The Virginian-Pilot, Daily Break p. E1 (11 December 1995; TAG 9512090048). Google's public index of the Virginia Tech electronic copy, dated 22 February 2018: File:Virginian_Pilot_House_of_Cards_Google_index_2018-02-22.txt. Unique-phrase search: google.com. Preserved copy: File:Virginian_Pilot_House_of_Cards_Google_unique-phrase_2018-02-22.pdf; Internet Archive. That copy at scholar.lib.vt.edu returned HTTP 410 Gone on 9 October 2026. The Wayback Machine had no capture of the article URL.
- ↑ Queen Games GmbH, Das Örtliche (Langbaurghstr. 7, 53842 Troisdorf; Telefon 02241 49 00-0). Preserved copy: Wayback, 9 October 2026.
- ↑ Troisdorfer Spieleverlag ist weltweit erfolgreich, General-Anzeiger Bonn (24 December 2009). Preserved copy: Internet Archive.
- ↑ Offizielles Star Wars Magazin #8, Jedi-Bibliothek (14 January 1998). #9 (15 April 1998); #10 (15 July 1998); #11 (10 October 1998). Preserved copies: Wayback #8, 9 October 2026; Wayback #9, 23 December 2024; Wayback #10, 23 December 2024; Wayback #11, 9 October 2026. Covers: #8; #9; #10; #11.
- ↑ Star Wars CCG - Most Interesting and Strangest Things in Our Collections with Special Guest Andy, BoardMatt, guest Andy Talaga (29 May 2022). Preserved copy: Internet Archive.
- ↑ Star Wars Customizable Card Game : The Expansions, Decipher.com product library (archive, 4 May 1999).