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As some of you are already aware, an Interstellar Zangus laserdisc surfaced that I was able to obtain.

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I wanted to report on this disc here because there is no known information about this game on the internet or anywhere else for that matter. Along with the disc, I located a brochure which discusses the items included in the Zangus kit to convert an original Interstellar Laser Fantasy game.

The kit is only an 11 rom swap with some separate fuses for the Interstellar Laser Fantasy board set. It is not a separate dedicated board set like Esh's Aurunmilla. There is a dedicated marquee, side art x2, CP, monitor bezel, manual, etc etc...

The game consists of both animated/ cartoon sequences as well as CGI backgrounds similar to the original Interstellar game.

After insertion of a coin, the scene shifts to a little boy (pictured on the flyer) sitting in his bedroom at a drafting table staring off into the distance. He appears bored so he begins sketching a spaceship as well as three little characters (also on the flyer) onto a sheet of paper. Immediately after he finishes the sketch of the three characters, they pop off the page and come to life. The shortest character begins erasing the spaceship and redrawing it with the tallest character. Much to the boy's surprise, he shrinks to their size and gets sucked into the spaceship on the paper.

The piece of paper with the spaceship blows out the bedroom window and onto a CGI background similar to the original Interstellar game. It disappears in a flash at which point it seems as though a spaceship generated by the rom images would appear in the foreground with the laser generated background images.

At the end of each CGI level, there are intermittent animated sequences where the spaceship lands in terrible disrepair of all different types. The little characters come marching onto the screen, erase the damaged area of the spaceship, redraw it, which in turns repairs the ship before it takes flight in the next level.

2 or 3 of the levels are identical to the original Interstellar game but all other levels are different.

All in all, it appears to be a WAY better game than Interstellar Laser Fantasy. Such a shame that Zangus was not the more common of the two Interstellar games.

Someday, I'll get the disc up on youtube for everyone to see. Hopefully the roms will surface. At least we know now that we just need to keep our eyes open for a regular Interstellar board set with different roms!!