Taking a look back at the 1999 LucasArts game for Windows PCs! Racing through Star Wars environments at nearly 1000MPH …
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Looking for my mix of Watto's "Cantina hum" from the end of the video? Here ya go! https://www.archive.org/details/LGRWattosCantina
CLARIFICATION: to those pointing out how you can play the game in 16:9 resolutions, yep it's technically true. You can play at resolutions such as 1080p, but what you get is a horizontally stretched experience that's still rendering all sorts of stuff at a 4:3 aspect ratio. This results in everything from the HUD, to the text/UI, to the skyboxes on each track looking skewed. But yes, it's technically correct that you can enable widescreen resolutions, it's just not fully optimized to do so and I really should've clarified what I meant. Check out this page for more: http://www.wsgf.org/dr/star-wars-episode-i-racer
I had it on Dreamcast and I still think that was the best version. The n64 one looked like crap compared to the Dreamcasts 128 bit goodness. Same with basically all of the cross gen titles they shared like Tony Hawk, Vigilante 8, and hydro thunder.
Never played it on PC back in the day tho, and while I think it also looks rly good there I still think the Dreamcast tops it since you didn’t have all the other annoyances setting it up and it just worked great straight outta the box. It’s just too bad the Dreamcast ultimately ended up failing bc it rly was pretty great back in the day.
now this is episode 1 racing
I had a good friend who had this game on PC. It had that classic PC feel where you had that very subtle fuzz in the speakers. I didn’t play it but once but it’s still really nostalgic for me.
Did any millennial dork not have this game? So 👏🏼 good!
I loved this game, even though I was REALLY bad at it as a kid. Never beat it.
the last cloud level is a lot easier with a xbox controller as there's analog triggers for speed up and slow down… going medium speed on the top is the only way to stay up.
Am I the only one who likes Jabba? Seems so 😭
This has always been one of my favorite racing games as I still have my N64 cartridge as well as on my Switch. I was 13 when this game first came out & I couldn't win all the races back in the day as I crashed a lot, but I played it again on my Switch a few years ago & I was able to win all the races fairly easily this time & again on mirror mode. I'm turning 38 next week & am better at video games now than I was back then.
25 years later I still remember that course Abyss. It was stupid difficult and I never managed to beat it in first place either.
My wife and I love this game, it has fantastic 2splitscreen gameplay. It's a ton of fun and creative in how the gameplay works. There's a neat balance of natural boosting tied to the vehicle status. I'd rank this game before F-Zero if it wasn't for its sound track omg.
I played the absolute fuck out of this on the 64. It was just so damned good.
I worked at LucasArts back in 2008- and in a virtually unused gaming/break room there was an Episode 1 racer arcade machine. Since we were game testers of course we would take our lunches down there and play it. It was a fun excursion from the torture of game testing. Which is saying something.
One interesting challenge to try is to beat the game without any upgrades. I've done that recently on a N64 emulator and it really demands you to play different.
(The atrocious input lag did not help tho, I hope the PC version doesnt have that issue)
So it WAS unfair !! xD I swear I've been haunted by that two-level track ever since the 2000s, wondering if it was I that sucked or not.
i was six or seven when i got this game…
Lemme give you some context! (if anyone happens to read this lol) I was too young to speak english yet (im swedish), hell im not sure i could even read yet! So since i didnt understand what they were saying in the movies, my relation to star wars was, lightsaber fights, space battles and the podracing bit-> rewind->repeat. I was OBSESSED, as anyone with any sense would be!
So i got the game and.. it wouldnt run on my dads pc at the time, so i had to wait for about a year until he upgraded.
A YEAR!
Can you imagine a six year old star wars obsessed kid waiting a YEAR to fly anakins podracer?? it may as well have been a lifetime! But boy was it worth the wait, the morning my dad got that new pc he surprised me with the game already installed on that thing, he taught me how to start a race, and i played that game from that morning until my dad yanked the plug on the computer at night lol.
Best day ever.
I remember playing this game back in 2000 and was really bad at it, trying to beat that first course was a nightmare.
sebulba mains rise up
Big nostalgia for that Best Buy pillar display surrounded by Mario & Sonic. I played my share of Mario Kart 64, Banjo-Kazooie and this game there, all on display for anyone at the store's entrance. Whenever the line was too long, I'd cool off w/ Yoshi's Island on the SNES unit or whatever was on the Game Boy. It's even where 1 of my 2 encounters w/ the Virtual Boy happened, the other being at a friend of the family's place. I also distinctly remember a big Goldeneye promotional billboardesque poster hung on the backside of said giant screen.
Who would have that thought that the worst scene from a crappy movie would make a terrific game?
"ITS A NEW LAP RECORRRDDD"
They should call it the "Player's Manual", not the Owner's Manual.
Literally the best thing to come out of the prequels… which, maybe that's a low bar… But, seriously, I love this game 😀