2:40 Battle of Hoth 9:20 Escape from Echo Base 23:00 Asteroid Chase 31:00 Ord Mantell Junkyard 45:30 Gall Spaceport 1:19:45 Mos Eisley and Beggar's Canyon 1:27:00 Imperial Freighter Suprosa 1:44:00 Sewers of Imperial City 2:01:00 Xizor's Palace 2:26:00 Skyhook Battle
I remember playing this game at 5 years old my older who 8 years senior then me made it look easy RIP brother best feeling in the world to game out with you
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@N64 Archive too bad they never made a Remastered version of this game, I loved playing this game when the Nintendo game systems were still popular. in fact: this was the first Star Wars game that got me hooked and I've played every Star Wars game ever since.
Definitely. Low-res monsters in creepy looking levels. The unbelievably shitty controls (well on PC anyway but they look just as bad here) played a part too. "Oh lookie a huge scary looking robot. No worries I'll kill it with my guns. Oh wait my aim is fucked? Jumping and running is fucked? Basically tank controls to turn around? Oh...gulp!"
really? I never got the horror vibe but i can see how you could. I was like 14 when I first played this haha. I just remember being frustrated as fuck because it was hard.
Forgive me but you're both wrong, clearly the best star wars games ever are Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic 1 and 2 even though Star Wars: Republic Commando is awesome.
Ehh, as much as this is a nostalgic childhood game for me, I'd be hard pressed to describe it as a gem. It's pretty damn flawed. I think for Star Wars games that are basically in the same vein as this, the Jedi Knight series were better.
He would have defeated it a just a crowbar... But melee weapons weren't ok with Nintendo and Lucas Art unless it would immediately cook the damaged tissues and prevent any red organic plasma to manifest itself to purposely traumatize kids about how living creatures... ..continue to live.
OMG YES!!! I'm having so many flashbacks! I'm going to end up watching this all right now!!! I hated the train part where you would jump back and forth!! Ugh!!
I feel so unbelievably validated reading about how other people experienced real fear and anxiety when playing this game. The atmosphere was SO good but soo unsettling! The music was intense and would overtake your emotions. And the sound design?! My goodness. 10/10, I loved this game
@@JimmyDoresHairDye The SNES was still viable how by then? If you were still living in the early 90's maybe. I'd already moved on to the Saturn before this game came out and was only really dabbling in N64 stuff, the SNES was clearly at the end of its shelf life by then. Anyway as far as my original comment was concerned, I was referring to the sound QUALITY, not the music arrangement and reproduction, I specifically said the BITRATE.
M Williams I think there’s something unnerving about low res non human enemies with unnatural movements and then like you said strange noises on top of that, yeah kinda creepy
I used to rent this game in the 90's from the local candy store whatever you call it. And Boba Fett always killed me. I can even remember the smell from that shop. The N64-games will always have a special place in my heart.
There was just something so magical about going to the local video rental store after school and picking out a game to rent for the next couple days. Then getting home and firing up the game to find some random save file from the previous person who rented it, and deciding whether you wanted to delete their file or try playing it out of sheer curiosity. Games from that era were so hit-or-miss too, you'd either stumble across some great gem or something that played and controlled super janky. It was kind of an experimental time in game development, where devs were still trying to work out how to make games work in 3D.
Something about IG88 was kinda scary back when I played this as a 10 year old. The music, the sound of him moving and clanking ominously and his relentless chasing. Then it just got frustrating.
You could feel the cold, and the fear of death in this game. The atmosphere definitely had that strange feeling you get from unusual settings, the stench of death is there, that sense of being in some toxic barren wasteland filled with deadly occupants... This game captured horror without even aiming for it.
brings back good memories for me the fear of being scared not the old-timer's flashback to Nam but the kind where I put my blaster up after this game and went retired to Coruscant.
I had this game as a kid and makes no mistakes it was the scariest game I played. Not even intentionally an horror game lol. The original White Day was scary as fuck too back when there was not many games out there.
This game was definitely a Star Wars horror. The Wampas, Snow Troopers, The Music, The Loader Droid, Boba Fett, Slave 1, Sarlaacs, The sewers, dianoga, and story were all scary as a kid. Almost as scary as RE:2.
Loved this game as kid, I used to repeat the battle of hoth for hours, definetly one of the best star wars games ever (also you battled against IG-88 and Boba fett)
I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds this game creepy or scary. I'm playing it again, 25 years after I first played it as a kid, and I still find it very disturbing.
I hate to be Blunt, but that's why it's called Shadow Empire it's supposed to show the dark elements of Star Wars criminal elements But for sure I know what you mean when I 1st played it Back in 98 I think i was 6 years old It was really hard for me to play I couldn't beat that AT ST in echo base until a year later 🤣 imagine they made a series of this
The N64 will hold a special place in my memories. I remember getting the best gift from my dad Christmas of 1997. I received Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Yoshi Story and Shadows Of The Empire. Seeing this walkthrough reminded me of what is missing from games today...Plain Fun.
Evil Yoda Said like that, it oddly sounds like an old pervert trying to lure an innocent kid with candies... wait... DID I JUST PERFECTLY DESCRIBED DISNEY IN ONE SENTENCE ??
I really thought Dash was who Woody Harleson's character was going to be in Solo. Such a missed opportunity, but they probably didn't want to pay the author or Shadows of the Empire for the rights to his character.
I remember thinking this was the pinnacle of graphical power. I remember thinking how this looked just like the movies especially the battle of Hoth... Jesus I was wrong.
this is the pinnacle of graphics, i dont consider any newer games better just because they have a higher polygon count but are boring as shit to play and still dont look decent even with the "better" graphics.
I know what you mean. When I got a Dreamcast and had virtua tennis and nba, to me it looked so real. Like real life. How could it get better?! Yet now it looks crap. Strange how we perceive something to look real when it doesn’t.
It is crazy cool to find this on here. What memories...lol its wild reading the comments and realizing all these years later that there were so many shared experiences for all of us...haha!
Matt Kenyon that's what scared me, I played the game over 10 years ago, and I just recently watched star wars for the first time, like episode 1-6. Before I saw episode 1-6 I saw star wars the clone wars a few years back in around 2008, I guess 10 years ago as well. Guess I played this game when I was 5. Anyways, I remember being across map and having one of the slow guys catch up, that feeling you thought you were safe as a kid when really something was chasing you the whole time... that scared me. Edit: THEY'RE BRINGING THE CLONE WARS BACK!!!!!
@@BookishEmperor but it doesn’t matter what Disney says though nobody should take them seriously unless they’re talking about rogue one or the mandorlorian lol
Level 1 is rightly celebrated, but level 5 - where you get to cruise through that giant canyon supported by a jet pack - is the one that really blew my mind.
The junkyard train is one of my all time favorite game levels. The intense music and intimidating train sounds got your heart pumping, and the brown fog captures the feeling of being in a polluted toxic garbage dump. And then it ends with the awesomely terrifying IG-88 fight.
I had a friend who had muscular dystrophy - Unfortunately he died in 2001, but Shadows of the Empire was one out of a few games we would play together round his house in 1997, “level or life” style, in the living room in front of a big CRT TV. I just used to play DOS games or obscure Apple Mac games as a kid, and missed out on the consoles, so the N64 as my first console experience blew my mind. Even awful games like this were fun - Though we only got as far as the Bobba Fett level with the jetpack. We cheered when we finally beat Bobba Fett after many attempts of getting to him through the canyon level, and fighting him, thinking “Ay, we did it! High fi-” then froze with horror as he reappeared in Slave I. His ship kicked both our butts, using up the last of our lives. :) His brother got further in the game than we did, and we loaded up his save file - That horrible speed biker section was impossible, and we spent hours getting lost in that sewer level… 24 years later and I decided to give Shadows of the Empire a proper playthrough. I sometimes feel nostalgic and give the better N64 games a replay with Project 64, but the SotE ROM file never worked right in the emulator and flickered. I've only now bothered to look up a fix for it. Today I beat it for the first time - Adult me has little patience for '90s gaming shenanigans, so I been using this vid to find out where Slave I's hitbox actually is, among other things. :P I'm guessing this game sold well back in the day 'cause “Yay, Star Wars!” - The Battle of Hoth start was great, but the rest of the game wasn't, even for back then. I now know it probably was because its development was rushed - Something even many modern titles suffer from. SotE is actually a lot shorter than I was expecting it to be - Its length comes from its horrible level design and difficulty, then having to reply levels over and over again to “learn” their pitfalls. I guess you'd have got value for money back then, but it wasn't a satisfying gaming experience, when other games released alongside it were a lot better (Mario 64 being one of them). Fortunately for me and my friend back in the '90s, there was Rogue Squadron afterwards, which played like SotE's Hoth level, but better - We had much more fun with that one. :)
Where are the loot boxes? Where are the Games as a service? Where are the microtransactions? Where does this get off being a complete game right out of the box? [Sigh] I miss the good 'ole days of gaming.
Truesyn nowadays it's about "longevity of the game itself instead of a limited amount of hours" and pleasing their investors that always raise the profit expectation bar.
When I was a kid, Gall Spaceport (level 5, I think?) was the pinnacle of gaming difficulty for me. The damn level took like an hour, and Boba Fett was impossible. What a game.
I can not believe how much I had missed this game! My best mate and myself would spend hours laying on mums bed playing the N64. The 90' were the best decade
I randomly remembered this game a few days ago… and decided to watch a play through since I don’t have a Nintendo 64 anymore. It’s definitely interesting comparing the actual game to what I remember. When I played this, I was quite young, and for some reason really good at the junkyard level boss fight. But little me was scared of the sound the robot would make…. So I always had the sound down for that part! XD Anyway, really nostalgic, this game was really so much fun!!
This game is so nostalgic to me. I remember being a kid and playing the whole game, but when it came to the gladiator boss fight I was so scared of that thing especially when it was just the head. I'd call my dad over to beat it for me. He knew a glitch spot where it couldn't get to you
Right on for me it started with Star Wars Pod Racer and then Rogue Squadron and then this became my third Star Wars game. Ahh the Nostalgia Man, being a kid in the late 90’s and early 2000’s was magical
I noticed a lot of people say something similar...I'm glad it wasn't just me. I remember playing this when I was 13 and thinking "this is oddly dark and kind of scary for a Star Wars game!". My first experience was playing Empire Strikes Back on Atari (or Calico?) when I was like 5, cause my parents had it...for some reason. Man I feel old lol..
once the cheat was activated, you used L and R buttons to scroll through cheats and start button to activate/switchoff…..you had invincibility or get all stuff cheat to help with health, I always preferred invincibility as it gave unlimited jetpack woohoo!
i remembered my dad bought this back in 1997 when i was a kid i used to watch him play this all the time good memories to bad he never gotten the chance to beat it though
Right?! The scary, uncanny visuals and amazing music and art of this game feels more like Star Wars than the original movie trilogy in my opinion. It's hard to put in words.
This brings me such nostalgia and chills down my spine, I remember playing this on my brothers n64 when I was 5 years old. All the sound effects and music hits me hard.
Good God... This right here my man.. I used to sit next to my older brother as he played. Some sweet pan and a glass of milk on a Saturday morning as I watch him play, feeling like I was watching the movies. Sheeeesh..
@@hinglemccringleberry9389 I was born in 91 and used to watch my older brother and his friend play this. It seriously hit me with tons of nostalgia watching this. Good memories!
Daaamn! I completely forgot about this game, I used to spend hours and hours playing it. It sure was one of the hardest, frustating and yet, fun game I've ever played.
Louisiana Live what if be cool dash renader got old and attack first order after that resistance just found him he alive been year never know about him.
I remember being little and my older brother renting this when it first came out. He got all the way to the end but couldn't beat it before we had to take it back. I remember being scared shitless by the sewers and the eyestalk monsters in there. Good memories...
Likewise. My brother owned the game but he let me play it. I could never get past level 8 because the monsters freaked me out too much. This recording is actually my second time ever beating the game!
The sewers boss was the scariest thing in this game when I was 8 years old and ig88 was pretty scary also. Gall spaceport level and Boba fett was my favorite!
I remember watching my dad play this game when I was a kid. The second level he would let the wampas out and then speed run through the level while I had a mini heart attack. This game is what Starwars needs to be now scary yet thrilling.
One aspect I always loved about this game, was how the majority of the bosses come at you with the same weapons you have. IG-88 uses a Blaster and Pulse Cannon, Boba Fett uses a Blaster and Seeker Missiles. And the Gladiator droid uses all your weapons, except the Stunner and Disruptor. It really adds the aspect, that the Star-Wars universe has a lot of focus on the gunplay. Especially with the IG-88 and Boba Fett matchups; since it plays into aspect how similar the weaponry is. When you fight Boba Fett; you at this point have probably been using Seekers on everything, because of the damage they deal, and their value since they lock on... imagine how it feels having that weapon turned on you. Suddenly, you understand how it feels, to be hit with such a strong weapon... and it really makes you fear, hearing the noise of a seeker being launched.
Try playing this when you're seven. I had absolutely no idea what was happening most the time. *Thanks everyone who didn't erase their progress so I could jump ahead. Video stores will be missed.
It has been more than 20 years since I have played this game for the first time, and this video made me remember every single emotion I experienced. The troopers falling screams always made me laugh so hard.
Oh man, watching this in 2023 was incredible. It's been well over 20 years since I last played this. Was pretty young too, don't remember my exact age (Maybe 6-8 years old?), but wow...this just oozes nostalgia for me around every corner. Normally when I go looking at games I played way back in the day I usually find gaps in my memory, but not with this one. Every room brings with it that sense of deja vu. I guess it makes sense since it was one of my first games ever, but just didn't expect the amount of serotonin I just got.
Glad to know I wasnt the only one scared by some of these levels as a kid lol. Especially the octopus in the sewer one. I think it gave me PTSD because I am now scared af of any body of water.
Me too execpt it was playing with my father-in-law before he sadly passed. He loved gaming even as a near-retired gent. This and Golden Eye on multi-player mode was hilarious. Good times.
I was around 4 years old when I played this game. My little brother and I would fight over the N64, when we lived with our grandparents. I remember the Gall Spaceport mission which was somehow unforgettable to me, but I kept talking down the canyon and dying so I never got past it. I remember just how creepy this game made me feel, even when it wasn't meant to be that way. I'm 23 now, and seeing this is on Steam, I'm looking to buy it and finally finish it.
I remember this game to be hard asf, also scary, it Made You feel the actual star wars universe as being very hostile and dangerous. As it should be now, like the original trilogy...
The jetpack levels were always my favorite levels. It was so fun just to fly around and see how far the jetpack would fly before running out of fuel indicated by the jetpack percentage you see on-screen :)
During the Hoth level I couldn't figure out how to use the tow cables so I just pretty much shot those AT-AT walkers down manually lol! Until later on as a couple of years past I felt silly after figuring out the controls how to deploy them! ;)
It was pretty rewarding to beat this game the second time and realize that Dash actually made it out alive. With that said, I loved every second playing this awesome game. It had variety and tons of atmosphere, and it really immersed you into the Star Wars universe. Best Star Wars game in my mind alongside the supreme masterpiece: Knights of the Old Republic
2:40 Battle of Hoth
9:20 Escape from Echo Base
23:00 Asteroid Chase
31:00 Ord Mantell Junkyard
45:30 Gall Spaceport
1:19:45 Mos Eisley and Beggar's Canyon
1:27:00 Imperial Freighter Suprosa
1:44:00 Sewers of Imperial City
2:01:00 Xizor's Palace
2:26:00 Skyhook Battle
I remember playing this game at 5 years old my older who 8 years senior then me made it look easy RIP brother best feeling in the world to game out with you
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I always feel like people who take the time to watch a video and then post timestamps in the comments would be good editors. :)
Go away, Sir!
There should be a Remake of this.
@N64 Archive too bad they never made a Remastered version of this game, I loved playing this game when the Nintendo game systems were still popular. in fact: this was the first Star Wars game that got me hooked and I've played every Star Wars game ever since.
this game was anxiety inducing, and really hard as a kid
Sewer level was the worst.
You too huh?
Lol I think it took 100 hits to kill the wampas
Adam Taves I think that’s what made it so good and made it a next gen experience and it was authentic Star Wars ish
michael pandolfi well I was six so
This game had a weird horror aspect to it in my opinion. Fun but strangely terrifying lol
I'd have to agree. Stage 8 definitely scarred me as a child. Those dianoga's are terrifying.
I find the soundtrack scary
Definitely. Low-res monsters in creepy looking levels. The unbelievably shitty controls (well on PC anyway but they look just as bad here) played a part too. "Oh lookie a huge scary looking robot. No worries I'll kill it with my guns. Oh wait my aim is fucked? Jumping and running is fucked? Basically tank controls to turn around? Oh...gulp!"
AnimeFan0017 I have the game and I’m not that scared
really? I never got the horror vibe but i can see how you could. I was like 14 when I first played this haha. I just remember being frustrated as fuck because it was hard.
Dude I used to get scared shitless on some of these levels 😩
I know right? So spooky for a star wars game :D
Sydney Beique I was scare on the assinated droid part and those snow monsters
The snow monster scared the hell out of me too!
Those wampas were the worst! I would watch my brother play because I was no good. I would sit there scared!
That damn sewer level!!!
The Sewers were absolutely terrifying.
Very lol
It was the level that stopped 6 year old me in my tracks lol
All in the nasty water with a jet pack smh
@@therowgawd nasty stuff man
@@therowgawd I took my memory card and cartridge to my uncles dorm room on a visit and he beat it all while conversing with everyone lol
What a gem. One of the best star wars games ever made.
For me Starwars Republic Commando's and Starwars Empire at War were the best games.
Forgive me but you're both wrong, clearly the best star wars games ever are Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic 1 and 2 even though Star Wars: Republic Commando is awesome.
@@leowribeiro Well i think those are all good.
Ehh, as much as this is a nostalgic childhood game for me, I'd be hard pressed to describe it as a gem. It's pretty damn flawed.
I think for Star Wars games that are basically in the same vein as this, the Jedi Knight series were better.
It's incredibly immersive and I loved every minute of it
Dash... The only guy that has managed to defeat an AT-ST with a DL-44 blaster.
He would have defeated it a just a crowbar...
But melee weapons weren't ok with Nintendo and Lucas Art unless it would immediately cook the damaged tissues and prevent any red organic plasma to manifest itself to purposely traumatize kids about how living creatures...
..continue to live.
😂😂😂😂
Psssssh! I've seen teddy bears take 'em out with logs!
@@dede9806 lol preach!
@@robotbjorn4952 lol yeah that was by far the corniest part of the original trilogy.
I was truly afraid to face IG-88 on the garbege planet, I experienced terror in that matter for the first time in my life :-D
Everyone
He was funny to me. he sounded like a robotic Turkey "Gobble gobble gobble"
OMG YES!!! I'm having so many flashbacks! I'm going to end up watching this all right now!!! I hated the train part where you would jump back and forth!! Ugh!!
Imagine IG-11 in The Mandalorian with all these scary fx.
@@Nightmare89 definitely NOT for kids😅
Man if there was ever a game that needed a ground up graphics remake. I'd be all over it.
Yeah this game definetely could get a remake with the same quality of Jedi Fallen Order and would be awesome
I’d spend all my money on it
Yes because there is no fucking way I can play it in this condition, I can't stand the 64 graphics anymore. It's so painful to my eyes
@@brendandoyle7508 Definitely. I loved this game back in the day, especially the original trilogy soundtrack. This game did not age well tho.
Only thing is it wouldn't be the same game without those graphics
I feel so unbelievably validated reading about how other people experienced real fear and anxiety when playing this game.
The atmosphere was SO good but soo unsettling! The music was intense and would overtake your emotions. And the sound design?! My goodness. 10/10, I loved this game
EXACTLY how I feel!
Especially the sewer level. damn.
and the terrible mechanics of movement and aiming made it 150X worse!
@@177SCmaroand the junkyard…. Instant death everywhere and it’s like the 3rd level 😅😅
The actual licensed music in this game was a phenomenal addition.
Albeit at an incredibly low bitrate.
Sounds awful, but in the context of a cartridge's capacity, they did well I suppose.
@@Longlostpuss This game came out while the SNES was still a viable console.
The music was incredible compared to what we were used to.
@@JimmyDoresHairDye The SNES was still viable how by then? If you were still living in the early 90's maybe.
I'd already moved on to the Saturn before this game came out and was only really dabbling in N64 stuff, the SNES was clearly at the end of its shelf life by then.
Anyway as far as my original comment was concerned, I was referring to the sound QUALITY, not the music arrangement and reproduction, I specifically said the BITRATE.
No Star Wars game should NOT have original score. It's what makes it shine the most.
I mean, kinda hard to not get the music since it was made by Lucas Arts
This game managed to get subtle horror right somehow.
The sounds, sometimes you heard things before you could see them.
vishal chan IG-88 says hi
M Williams I think there’s something unnerving about low res non human enemies with unnatural movements and then like you said strange noises on top of that, yeah kinda creepy
IG-88 was terrifying...you hear his noises but where tf was he?! BAM shoots you dead
Wendy Vinshlikapoltz I think you nailed it on the head with that description
I used to rent this game in the 90's from the local candy store whatever you call it. And Boba Fett always killed me. I can even remember the smell from that shop. The N64-games will always have a special place in my heart.
I loved that game
I hear you man. I still have my Nintendo 64 along with this game. The 90’s were great.
There was just something so magical about going to the local video rental store after school and picking out a game to rent for the next couple days. Then getting home and firing up the game to find some random save file from the previous person who rented it, and deciding whether you wanted to delete their file or try playing it out of sheer curiosity.
Games from that era were so hit-or-miss too, you'd either stumble across some great gem or something that played and controlled super janky. It was kind of an experimental time in game development, where devs were still trying to work out how to make games work in 3D.
Ah the old blockbuster days
I also can remember the smell of the place that rented out movies and games. Even after all this time. 'Tom's Tapes' it was called.
Something about IG88 was kinda scary back when I played this as a 10 year old. The music, the sound of him moving and clanking ominously and his relentless chasing. Then it just got frustrating.
Good point of view
That weird garbled way he talked!!
A combination between a Martian and the terminator
That boss fight scared the midichlorians outta me
It sure was
You could feel the cold, and the fear of death in this game. The atmosphere definitely had that strange feeling you get from unusual settings, the stench of death is there, that sense of being in some toxic barren wasteland filled with deadly occupants... This game captured horror without even aiming for it.
Been stuck in that fucking sewer with a dark screen tv for a while too were ya
brings back good memories for me the fear of being scared not the old-timer's flashback to Nam but the kind where I put my blaster up after this game and went retired to Coruscant.
I'm still scared of the Wompas...aka Yeti
I had this game as a kid and makes no mistakes it was the scariest game I played.
Not even intentionally an horror game lol.
The original White Day was scary as fuck too back when there was not many games out there.
Best comment about this game. Whatever else it was, it just had such a total atmosphere to it.
I never realized growing up how this guy was truly a GIGACHAD version of Han Solo
Miss the days when the word GigaChad didn't exist
🧔♂️
@@ShaneAlan1miss the days when ppl werent such losers getting worked up by a word. Grow a pair
I always assumed most of what Dash Rendar ever said was bullshit and this story, told through his “perspective”, was a tall tale
Dude was able to defeat an AT-ST with a blaster, IG-88, Boba Fett, and a giant Diagnoga. Han Solo wishes he had such a resume.
The music in this game was so good.
Yeah.
They compressed the original instrumental music
Josh Coughenour Hoth here was the best
Well yeah, it's Star Wars.
Joel Mcknealy did a fine job!
Yes..
And i really love the Music from Xizor's stage... can't remember that segment's name. Xizor's palace i think.
This game was definitely a Star Wars horror. The Wampas, Snow Troopers, The Music, The Loader Droid, Boba Fett, Slave 1, Sarlaacs, The sewers, dianoga, and story were all scary as a kid. Almost as scary as RE:2.
Can't forget IG-88 🤖
@@benstiemsma IG-88 was the stuff of nightmares as a kid ❤️
funny you mention RE2, Just found out you can play with locked camera angles, much like the original RE games.
Those wampas scared the shit out of me as a kid. Kinda reminds me of the terror experiencing my first deathclaw in fallout.
The at in the hangar scared me as a kid and when I watched this video llol
I love the dark moody vibe this game had
bigwhopper6501 it had a weird scary vibe, many of the levels scared me as a youngster
Loved this game as kid, I used to repeat the battle of hoth for hours, definetly one of the best star wars games ever (also you battled against IG-88 and Boba fett)
I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds this game creepy or scary. I'm playing it again, 25 years after I first played it as a kid, and I still find it very disturbing.
I hate to be Blunt, but that's why it's called Shadow Empire it's supposed to show the dark elements of Star Wars criminal elements
But for sure I know what you mean when I 1st played it Back in 98 I think i was 6 years old It was really hard for me to play I couldn't beat that AT ST in echo base until a year later 🤣 imagine they made a series of this
@The Almighty you are not blunt don't worry;) us millennial don't get so easily offended
The N64 will hold a special place in my memories. I remember getting the best gift from my dad Christmas of 1997. I received Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Yoshi Story and Shadows Of The Empire. Seeing this walkthrough reminded me of what is missing from games today...Plain Fun.
Prisoner 088 I had all those games, loved them all
I really miss the charm of oldschool graphics like on the N64. Modern games are great but none has captured the feel of those old classics :(
Yeah these lil fortnite kids will never understand.
PlayStation 4 still keeps games like this alive today so get y'all ps4
Prisoner 088 wow so lucky
They need to remaster this game so bad
The game was coded by a group of chimpanzees, so no. It better stays as a cult classic.
Hell yeah! It would be so great to see this game with modern visuals and gameplay
@@dxn2000 I hate that i clicked on this with excitement lol
A pile of trash called Disney owns the rights now and they like to ruin everything they touch.
Evil Yoda
Said like that, it oddly sounds like an old pervert trying to lure an innocent kid with candies...
wait... DID I JUST PERFECTLY DESCRIBED DISNEY IN ONE SENTENCE ??
The train level was always my favourite because of the music
Yesss. And the sound effects sent it next level
This game deserves a lot more credit than the critics gave it back in the day. Still holds up as a very enjoyable game with excellent quality play
No it doesn't.
@@younglove3362 yes it does.
@Steve_P_B
No it doesn't.
This is a ridiculously innovative game for its time.
Solo? Nah, Dash Rendar: A Star Wars Story.
I always thought Shadows of the Empire was a compelling read. Would have made a great Star Wars movie.
I loved Solo... But agree this has to be the next made into a movie!
I really thought Dash was who Woody Harleson's character was going to be in Solo. Such a missed opportunity, but they probably didn't want to pay the author or Shadows of the Empire for the rights to his character.
we need a Dash Rendar movie
I bet that movie would have done way better than Solo for sure. Dash was a cool character.
The little scream the storm troopers would do when they fall off an edge always has me dying! Really loved this game as a youngster!
The Wilhelm scream! Star wars made it famous and it's all throughout all the star wars movies.
@@The_Bad_Guy. not the Wilhelm scream in this game though thank God
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AAAAHHHHHH -stormtrooper 1996
I remember thinking this was the pinnacle of graphical power. I remember thinking how this looked just like the movies especially the battle of Hoth... Jesus I was wrong.
Graphics age like milk. You can release a cutting edge game, and in 2 years it'll be an outdated mess. Surprising how fast that process goes!
this is the pinnacle of graphics, i dont consider any newer games better just because they have a higher polygon count but are boring as shit to play and still dont look decent even with the "better" graphics.
I know what you mean. When I got a Dreamcast and had virtua tennis and nba, to me it looked so real. Like real life. How could it get better?!
Yet now it looks crap. Strange how we perceive something to look real when it doesn’t.
No shut y'all think after years it's still gonna look the same come on now
Same. I remember this game was so cutting edge. Graphics had peaked. Couldn't possibly get any better. Lol
When a video game felt more like Star Wars than anything we've seen since 2015...
Since 1983
It is crazy cool to find this on here. What memories...lol its wild reading the comments and realizing all these years later that there were so many shared experiences for all of us...haha!
thew wompas used to scare me as a kid so bad 😂
Same! because they have so much health and they hurt so much aswell xD
The sound they make was enough to send me running!
Something about the way they walked so slow and never stopped following you, even when you ran meters away. *shudder*
Matt Kenyon that's what scared me, I played the game over 10 years ago, and I just recently watched star wars for the first time, like episode 1-6. Before I saw episode 1-6 I saw star wars the clone wars a few years back in around 2008, I guess 10 years ago as well. Guess I played this game when I was 5. Anyways, I remember being across map and having one of the slow guys catch up, that feeling you thought you were safe as a kid when really something was chasing you the whole time... that scared me.
Edit: THEY'RE BRINGING THE CLONE WARS BACK!!!!!
... There was no point to cut this out of canon. It's such a perfect story.
@@nuiun0495 It doesn't contradict canon.
True
Why was it cut?
@@PatternLand Everything prior to 2014 was made non canon when Disney took over, over then the movies and the clone wars.
@@BookishEmperor but it doesn’t matter what Disney says though nobody should take them seriously unless they’re talking about rogue one or the mandorlorian lol
Level 1 is rightly celebrated, but level 5 - where you get to cruise through that giant canyon supported by a jet pack - is the one that really blew my mind.
My favorite one
That's the one that my dad could never complete. Gall Spaceport. I don't know how he managed to beat IG-88.
I beat the whole game when I was like 10
@@smilenowsmileforever4226 With the WAMPASTOMPA cheat yes? :P
@@TheFlamingPike I beat the game also when I was 10 or 11, I didn’t figure out about that cheat till after I beat the game.
The junkyard train is one of my all time favorite game levels. The intense music and intimidating train sounds got your heart pumping, and the brown fog captures the feeling of being in a polluted toxic garbage dump. And then it ends with the awesomely terrifying IG-88 fight.
Agree every word with you, this one and Gall spaceport are my favorites
Agree with both of you. This game made me have fear to deep water zones because of sewers level
Agree with all three of you. This game is a gemstone
I had a friend who had muscular dystrophy - Unfortunately he died in 2001, but Shadows of the Empire was one out of a few games we would play together round his house in 1997, “level or life” style, in the living room in front of a big CRT TV.
I just used to play DOS games or obscure Apple Mac games as a kid, and missed out on the consoles, so the N64 as my first console experience blew my mind. Even awful games like this were fun - Though we only got as far as the Bobba Fett level with the jetpack. We cheered when we finally beat Bobba Fett after many attempts of getting to him through the canyon level, and fighting him, thinking “Ay, we did it! High fi-” then froze with horror as he reappeared in Slave I. His ship kicked both our butts, using up the last of our lives. :)
His brother got further in the game than we did, and we loaded up his save file - That horrible speed biker section was impossible, and we spent hours getting lost in that sewer level…
24 years later and I decided to give Shadows of the Empire a proper playthrough. I sometimes feel nostalgic and give the better N64 games a replay with Project 64, but the SotE ROM file never worked right in the emulator and flickered. I've only now bothered to look up a fix for it. Today I beat it for the first time - Adult me has little patience for '90s gaming shenanigans, so I been using this vid to find out where Slave I's hitbox actually is, among other things. :P
I'm guessing this game sold well back in the day 'cause “Yay, Star Wars!” - The Battle of Hoth start was great, but the rest of the game wasn't, even for back then. I now know it probably was because its development was rushed - Something even many modern titles suffer from.
SotE is actually a lot shorter than I was expecting it to be - Its length comes from its horrible level design and difficulty, then having to reply levels over and over again to “learn” their pitfalls. I guess you'd have got value for money back then, but it wasn't a satisfying gaming experience, when other games released alongside it were a lot better (Mario 64 being one of them).
Fortunately for me and my friend back in the '90s, there was Rogue Squadron afterwards, which played like SotE's Hoth level, but better - We had much more fun with that one. :)
I'm sorry about your friend may he rest in peace ❤
My favorite thing to do was make stormtroopers fall of cliff's. "AAaaahhhhh..."
Where are the loot boxes? Where are the Games as a service? Where are the microtransactions? Where does this get off being a complete game right out of the box?
[Sigh] I miss the good 'ole days of gaming.
Truesyn nowadays it's about "longevity of the game itself instead of a limited amount of hours" and pleasing their investors that always raise the profit expectation bar.
Jedi Fallen Order???
I'll take microtransactions over the games for $100 per copy with no option to download or pirate them.
I remember this game being terrifying.
When I was a kid, Gall Spaceport (level 5, I think?) was the pinnacle of gaming difficulty for me. The damn level took like an hour, and Boba Fett was impossible. What a game.
I can not believe how much I had missed this game!
My best mate and myself would spend hours laying on mums bed playing the N64.
The 90' were the best decade
I remember this was at the local grocery store and we rented it so many times my Mom went out and just bought it!
Thanks Ma. Wish I still had it.
I don’t even know how I got to the sewer level as a little kid
Joel Lopez same
Same
1999: me playing this game
2019: me watching some one play this game
I randomly remembered this game a few days ago… and decided to watch a play through since I don’t have a Nintendo 64 anymore.
It’s definitely interesting comparing the actual game to what I remember. When I played this, I was quite young, and for some reason really good at the junkyard level boss fight. But little me was scared of the sound the robot would make…. So I always had the sound down for that part! XD
Anyway, really nostalgic, this game was really so much fun!!
This game is so nostalgic to me. I remember being a kid and playing the whole game, but when it came to the gladiator boss fight I was so scared of that thing especially when it was just the head. I'd call my dad over to beat it for me. He knew a glitch spot where it couldn't get to you
Good for you NATHANTHIALTH but quit saying "ohh nostalgia" all the time. Im getting sick of it and it's gonna f kn stop!👇🏽NOW!!
I remember this game being so hard. Not even sure I made it far enough to get the jet pack. The music is amazing!
The trip down nostalgia lane is fantastic. Thanks for uploading a game i had almost completely forgotten
Comments like these make it all worth it :) Glad you enjoyed the video!
Yep. I just thought of this game for the first time since I played it when it came out. Just cracked a cream soda, sit back and relive it!
agreed..... great game and memories
The level with the under water alien spider things was terrifying. This whole game was pretty dark and edgy.
Nah the game is cool 100% Star Wars
So true! That underwater thing I still remember 20+ years later
I had nightmare of the sewers... Remember dying alot on that level (every level ofc was hard AF lol, but sewers scary af)
The weird controls and poor visibility in the sewer was an absolute nightmare. When I was a kid this definitely gave me stress
This game was actually what got me into Star Wars as a kid.
Right on for me it started with Star Wars Pod Racer and then Rogue Squadron and then this became my third Star Wars game. Ahh the Nostalgia Man, being a kid in the late 90’s and early 2000’s was magical
i dont know why but for some reason, this game used to scare me when i was just a little kid o_o
I noticed a lot of people say something similar...I'm glad it wasn't just me. I remember playing this when I was 13 and thinking "this is oddly dark and kind of scary for a Star Wars game!". My first experience was playing Empire Strikes Back on Atari (or Calico?) when I was like 5, cause my parents had it...for some reason. Man I feel old lol..
Man what I wouldn’t give to be a kid again just playing this all day.... the memories
:(
You still can!
The likes are at 64, I ain't messing that up 😅
I hear you man, no responsibilities, no rent, no bills to pay. Just pure joy.
True fans remember the cheat code I think it was wampastampa🤔
.Wampa..Stampa if I recall, those cheats allowed improved graphic features...turn fog and dithering off and it looked and ran so much better!!!!
David Clark I think so too what code gave you unlimited Heath
once the cheat was activated, you used L and R buttons to scroll through cheats and start button to activate/switchoff…..you had invincibility or get all stuff cheat to help with health, I always preferred invincibility as it gave unlimited jetpack woohoo!
The shape of the controller and pressing so many buttons... I had to use my face to move the joystick half way side to side
@@EightDazed Me too
i remembered my dad bought this back in 1997 when i was a kid i used to watch him play this all the time good memories to bad he never gotten the chance to beat it though
Man that gladiator droid at the end of xiziors Palace, id get him down to his floating head and he always killed me 😂😂😂
This was the best star wars game ever
Best set during the original saga. KOTOR is just above this one.
I agree. This and Rogue Squadron were the bees knees! They don't make em like they used to.
An incredibly underrated game!
Rogue Squadron 2 and 3 for the Cube were pretty good too.
You're also forgetting about the Star Wars Trilogy arcade game. Now that game was the shit!!
This brings back happiness of my childhood lol. But let’s be honest, that sewer level scared the shit out of us back in the day
this is indeed a classic of nintendo golden era quite posible the best star wars game till today.
Nothing else since this game came out has felt so much like Star Wars.
Right?! The scary, uncanny visuals and amazing music and art of this game feels more like Star Wars than the original movie trilogy in my opinion. It's hard to put in words.
Im so glad I found this. My father showed this to me as one of my very first few games. This game was insanely difficult as a child. I miss you Ryan
I'm still here
One word: nostalgia
This brings me such nostalgia and chills down my spine, I remember playing this on my brothers n64 when I was 5 years old. All the sound effects and music hits me hard.
Good God... This right here my man.. I used to sit next to my older brother as he played. Some sweet pan and a glass of milk on a Saturday morning as I watch him play, feeling like I was watching the movies. Sheeeesh..
same. I think we're the same age too. born in 91, this would make us 5 years old since it came out in 96
@@hinglemccringleberry9389 ahh nah man, my brother played this game in early 2000s. I as born 99
@@hinglemccringleberry9389 I was born in 91 and used to watch my older brother and his friend play this. It seriously hit me with tons of nostalgia watching this. Good memories!
@@FragRev yeah dude.
The sewer level gave me my first dose of
thalassophobia.
That shit gave me nightmares
Daaamn! I completely forgot about this game, I used to spend hours and hours playing it. It sure was one of the hardest, frustating and yet, fun game I've ever played.
Omg your comment brings me deja vu, like i've read it before
Este juego era de mis favoritos cuando era una niña y lo jugaba con mi hermano :') aún conservo el cartucho. Que tiempos...
The music and sound quality was a revelation to me when I first played this. Absolutely stunning quality for it's time. Set the mood and drew me in.
My very first Nintendo 64 game, Ah the endless nights playing this back in middle school 😊👍
they should have made a spinoff movie with Kevin Costner as Dash Rendar lol
Louisiana Live And should have Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Billy Dee Williams reprise their roles.
Ah... how things could have been.
Louisiana Live or Kevin Bacon...
Louisiana Live what if be cool dash renader got old and attack first order after that resistance just found him he alive been year never know about him.
agree at they do need to make a star wars shadow of the empire movie and remember at game was so awesome
switch port please.
The music and the weird artwork cutscenes always made this game feel SUPER creepy and scary as a kid.
Wampa Stompa
And using your face to tilt the joystick
This is one of my favorite N64 games.
I remember being little and my older brother renting this when it first came out. He got all the way to the end but couldn't beat it before we had to take it back. I remember being scared shitless by the sewers and the eyestalk monsters in there. Good memories...
Likewise. My brother owned the game but he let me play it. I could never get past level 8 because the monsters freaked me out too much. This recording is actually my second time ever beating the game!
I would watch my older brother play this as well. It was a horror side to starwars for sure
i wish i could go back to these days again, back when we had VHS films, nintendo 64 and ps2...no iphones, social networking sites or whatsapp
The sewers boss was the scariest thing in this game when I was 8 years old and ig88 was pretty scary also.
Gall spaceport level and Boba fett was my favorite!
Ahhh the old "brake the speeder as you mash fire" this gamer must be straight out of rogue squadron university
I remember watching my dad play this game when I was a kid. The second level he would let the wampas out and then speed run through the level while I had a mini heart attack. This game is what Starwars needs to be now scary yet thrilling.
I saw the name first. Then the avatar did not disappoint.
"OW MY EARS!"
Best Star Wars game ever. I struggled on the junkyard level with the moving trains and IG-88 boss fight, I was about 10 or 11 yrs old. Great memories
Facts
God! 30 years later and this game still gives me a razzle worth dazzling. Love the detail and passion poured into this.
One aspect I always loved about this game, was how the majority of the bosses come at you with the same weapons you have. IG-88 uses a Blaster and Pulse Cannon, Boba Fett uses a Blaster and Seeker Missiles. And the Gladiator droid uses all your weapons, except the Stunner and Disruptor.
It really adds the aspect, that the Star-Wars universe has a lot of focus on the gunplay. Especially with the IG-88 and Boba Fett matchups; since it plays into aspect how similar the weaponry is. When you fight Boba Fett; you at this point have probably been using Seekers on everything, because of the damage they deal, and their value since they lock on... imagine how it feels having that weapon turned on you. Suddenly, you understand how it feels, to be hit with such a strong weapon... and it really makes you fear, hearing the noise of a seeker being launched.
2:37:26 "Congratulations! Now try finishing the game on hard" ......right.
Was this really just 3 hours long? Damn.
Try playing this when you're seven. I had absolutely no idea what was happening most the time.
*Thanks everyone who didn't erase their progress so I could jump ahead. Video stores will be missed.
It has been more than 20 years since I have played this game for the first time, and this video made me remember every single emotion I experienced. The troopers falling screams always made me laugh so hard.
Oh man, watching this in 2023 was incredible. It's been well over 20 years since I last played this. Was pretty young too, don't remember my exact age (Maybe 6-8 years old?), but wow...this just oozes nostalgia for me around every corner. Normally when I go looking at games I played way back in the day I usually find gaps in my memory, but not with this one. Every room brings with it that sense of deja vu. I guess it makes sense since it was one of my first games ever, but just didn't expect the amount of serotonin I just got.
Glad to know I wasnt the only one scared by some of these levels as a kid lol. Especially the octopus in the sewer one. I think it gave me PTSD because I am now scared af of any body of water.
If this game was fully remastered, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Good childhood memories of playing with my father.
Me too execpt it was playing with my father-in-law before he sadly passed. He loved gaming even as a near-retired gent. This and Golden Eye on multi-player mode was hilarious. Good times.
Simply amazing truely felt like star wars
I was around 4 years old when I played this game. My little brother and I would fight over the N64, when we lived with our grandparents.
I remember the Gall Spaceport mission which was somehow unforgettable to me, but I kept talking down the canyon and dying so I never got past it. I remember just how creepy this game made me feel, even when it wasn't meant to be that way.
I'm 23 now, and seeing this is on Steam, I'm looking to buy it and finally finish it.
Brandon I shit you not the same damn thing happened to me, i could never forget that mission or the enemies and the music😳😂
This is on steam !!!!??? Thank you 😄
This game always had a creepy feeling when I was a kid. Still loved it though thanks for uploading this.
I am literally choking out tears, what a simple time it was when i played this game, good old days are all over.
Yeah it was fun playing this game as a kid, but there's lots of new fun games nowadays to play too :)
I Remember getting the The N64 that came with Shadows of the Empire for xmas. good times
I remember this game to be hard asf, also scary, it Made You feel the actual star wars universe as being very hostile and dangerous. As it should be now, like the original trilogy...
The jetpack levels were always my favorite levels. It was so fun just to fly around and see how far the jetpack would fly before running out of fuel indicated by the jetpack percentage you see on-screen :)
Em 1997 esse jogo era espetacular....tinha cara de futuro,e eu sempre alugava na locadora....bons tempos
During the Hoth level I couldn't figure out how to use the tow cables so I just pretty much shot those AT-AT walkers down manually lol! Until later on as a couple of years past I felt silly after figuring out the controls how to deploy them! ;)
The digitized voice they use for Dash Rendar when he gets hit is so weird...ARK ARG OCH ARG
😂😂
UGH!!
Goddamn, nostalgia city right here!
Nostalgia Wars!!
I remember accidentally deleting my progress on “Medium” mode, and having to start over when I was 8 years old. OMG I flipped shit..lol.
It was pretty rewarding to beat this game the second time and realize that Dash actually made it out alive.
With that said, I loved every second playing this awesome game. It had variety and tons of atmosphere, and it really immersed you into the Star Wars universe. Best Star Wars game in my mind alongside the supreme masterpiece: Knights of the Old Republic
This game is why I read some of the Tales of the Bounty Hunter books.