Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars is a 1980 board game published by Yaquinto Publications. Gameplay Shooting Stars is a tactical game focusing on combat between space fighters. Reception Eric Goldberg reviewed Shooting Stars in Ares Magazine #6 and commented that "Shooting Stars shows little or no work, and is an insult to the intelligence of any purchaser. Yaquinto and Steve Peek should be ashamed that their names are associated with it." Goldberg revisited the game in Ares Magazine #10 after corresponding with a reader and concluding that he had been "overly harsh in dismissing" the game and that "The premise, as dreadful as it may be, should not have wholly overshadowed a decent vector-based movement system – whatever the system's antecedents." Gregory Courter reviewed Shooting Stars in The Space Gamer No. 37. Courter commented that "Shooting Stars is a good game. If the price was [lower] I would recommend it. As it stands, the buyer must decide if s/he wishes to pay for rules at the expense of component quality."