Stardom: Quest for Fame

by Monte Cristo

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005A8XY
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: April 10, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,335 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Stardom: Your Quest for Fame is a game for those dreaming of being on TV. Make your way from cleaner to superstar by flirting, flaunting, and shaking your thang. How you do it is up to you, but the more important you become, the more people want your status, so watch your back and stay number one! Look for allies amongst your colleagues, make friends, get close to people, but always watch your back and be ready to answer nerve-racking quizzes to get that promotion.

Stardom features over 30 different characters to play, 13 trades with specific responsibilities and challenges, and over 500 pieces of information to read and disclose. Manage your career through 10 different TV stations. Answer multiple-choice quiz questions, and interact with other characters using 1,000 statements.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Very Bad Game, June 18, 2001

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Jason L. Smith "Jason" (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stardom: Quest for Fame (CD-ROM)

This is an incompetently executed video game, with obscure rules, many bugs, and ENORMOUS problems in translation. Contrary to another reviewer, it took me only about five minutes to discover this game is a (poor) translation of a game from Europe. Looking at the names of the people connected with it, I would guess it was made somewhere in Scandanavia. There's SOME humor value in the comically bad translations of the TV shows you will be producing, they really make no sense at all. However, the programmers made no effort to lip sync the animation and the soundtrack. The installation does not always refer to the program by the same name -- which I always take as a warning sign of sloppy programming. In the game itself, many of the pop-up message boxes appear on top of one another, obscuring important information. There are other bugs, and translation errors which made the game difficult to play, and quite tedious. I can't believe this game actually made it out of beta testing.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrid, July 8, 2001

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Thriller Lover (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stardom: Quest for Fame (CD-ROM)

This game is not only bad, but its packaging is also highly misleading. The packaging creates the impression that this is a game like the "Sims," where you play different characters and try to become famous. But, in reality, this is essentially a trivia game, and a second-rate one at that. The trivia questions are actually pretty hard, but it doesn't matter, since they begin repeating after five minutes or so.

In short, this game is a complete waste of your money. Avoid it at all costs.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money, June 14, 2001

By 

Steven W Chapman (Redwood City, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stardom: Quest for Fame (CD-ROM)

It only took me 20 minutes to figure out this game was made in Europe, not in the US. The "answers" to this trivia game are wrong a lot of times (Chewbacca is a Wookie, not an Ewok) and they use the International title of films instead of the US titles (what we called "12 Monkeys" they call "Army of the 12 Monkeys"), and when you are supposed to "correct news articles," don't correct spelling errors, or you'll get them "wrong".

After 30 minutes, I was just bored... it doesn't take long to memorize the answers to challenges in each category. I wish I'd researched this more before buying. Hopefully I can keep anyone else from making the same mistake.