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LGR - Star Wars Episode 1 Racer

🕑 Added 2018-05-01 14:01:01 +0000 UTC

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Protomario

Now this is Pod Racing!

ClanFever

Funny you post this, one in a box just came for sale from one of my favourite sellers on Trademe (NZ Ebay) <a href="https://www.trademe.co.nz/gaming/pc-games/driving-racing/auction-1617029223.htm?rsqid=b638f2c9b58c47629adaef58158d4714" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.trademe.co.nz/gaming/pc-games/driving-racing/auction-1617029223.htm?rsqid=b638f2c9b58c47629adaef58158d4714</a>

LGR

<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LtcApYNDI9uf4jC_2REM8SacEHY_QZ7X/view?usp=drivesdk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LtcApYNDI9uf4jC_2REM8SacEHY_QZ7X/view?usp=drivesdk</a>

Lindsay Michelle

If only everything undesirable would fade into a picture of Jar Jar... I don't know if that would be a good warning to stay away from things that suck... or if you'd just get sick of seeing his stupid face everywhere. :P

Dude

Can we get a clean version of the Watto mix at the end? :D

Chris Munch

Thanks for throwing in the Voodoo 3 footage, that's what I had back then and while watching most of the video I was thinking I would have swore the game looked better, fairly high res. Also had it on the Dreamcast which was an excellent port. This and Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit are the 2 best arcade racers from that eras IMO and both are still very fun to play.

LGR

Not that I'm aware of? But being on the PC all you'd have to do is configure play to use multiple joysticks in the options, or hook in a proper dual-stick flight controller.

LGR

Haha, thanks!

Mark

Great video :) your enthusiasm for the game really stands out, especially since I have fond memories of this game myself! And that outro music you did with Watto humming is brilliant :D

bartman3010

Does the PC version have an equivalent to the "Dual joystick" control scheme that the N64 version has? Even though it was a secret cheat, likely because of the control scheme requiring two controllers, it was a very interesting way to play the game.

LGR

It is indeed! <a href="https://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_episode_i_racer?pp=fa33988727d7f572be002b845e65858e68bb92e9" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_episode_i_racer?pp=fa33988727d7f572be002b845e65858e68bb92e9</a>

Eric

Love the review; I'm definitely going to give the rereleased copy a go ... maybe even convince my roommate to play some LAN racing :P. Is the affiliate link available yet -- maybe I'm just missing it? I want to make sure you get a cut.

This is honestly one of my favorite tie-in games of all time, and I'm glad to see all the love for it.

Tim

I always loved podracers when I was a kid, mainly because of this game. It would've been nice to see some classic Star Wars locations within the tracks, though. Abyss could've been Bespin, for example, while the ice track could've been Hoth. Either way, great game, and great to see it's been re-released. Always nice to see.

Garoninja

I played the N64 version when I was a kid. I'm not usually one for racing games, but this one I remember fondly. To be fair though you could have slapped Star Wars onto almost anything then and I would have been in it

LGR

Yep, it's a longtime favorite of mine!

LGR

You're very welcome :D

I loved the sequel on my PS2 back in the day. It seems like this first iteration has a couple more features though :O Speaking of racers, Clint, have you ever checked out Dethkarz? That's late-90s sci-fi racer for you in a nutshell :D

PhotoSvein

Played this a lot on the n64. I still remember Anakins "come on come on, work" line and I use this line to this day.

Terry Lee

I remember the first discovering this game in middle school. Apparently one of the computer room teachers loved Star Wars because a demo of this game was installed on every computer in the computer lab. You can only play the first level in the demo though. That room was also where I discovered ski free!

FLÅKLYPA!

Justin T Lee

YES! Thanks for covering this one, Clint. Spent/lost so many hours playing this on PC.

Peter Metzger

Thing I just realized: the announcer is Greg Proops, who was sometimes on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

Wallace Fung Wooh Sheen

GOG coming out this week apparently.

Anders Enger Jensen

Btw Clint, did you know that Lucas copied many elements of the podrace sequence from an old Norwegian stop motion film from 1975? A race with the protagonist's home made race car vs the antagonist's professional team etc. Not sure if he actually admitted to it, but the similarities are too many and cannot be a coincidence, so I bet you George saw this at one point and stole (with pretty great success, we're not mad ;)). <a href="https://vimeo.com/84289137" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/84289137</a>