“The Force is in Your Hands!”
Decipher’s Star Wars CCG from the nineties (find at Amazon.com*) was, back when it was new, available almost everywhere. What really helped the game to spread was the Parker Brothers Introductory Two-Player Game, a non-random version of the game that got you into the action quickly.
It was both that game and the Hasbro marketing engine that helped spread the word. And part of that marketing included this full-page advertorial from Boys Life in 1997. Damn, this ad looks sweet enough that it makes me kinda wish that I still had the intro set here.
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