You forgot The Gungan Frontier. The objective of the game is to terraform a moon and build a Gungan colony. There was a cool ecology management aspect to the game that set it apart from Sim City. It was rather unique IMHO.
Late comment, but as a current WORKING Ecologist who played that game growing up, its absolutely NAILED ecological processes in game mechanics i've never seen replicated elsewhere. I feel like it was a psyops that totally worked on me.
Battle for Naboo is one that still sticks with me, I spent so much time in that one and to this day the N1-Starfighter is my favorite spaceship in any fiction.
Friend had a collection of Star Wars games on PC and the ones I went through were the two where you fly the new Mandalorian ship. They were good, if short.
Agree, I have very good memories of my dad and I playing that game, and yes the N1 starfighter is so cool-looking, it is among my top 5 favourite Starfighters of any universe.
When I was 8 years old I walked 4.5 miles to the nearest toys r us to play the pod racing game on the n64 demo case. I was gone for hours, my mom had no idea where I was and reported me missing to the police. About a mile away from returning home a police officer saw me walking and picked me up. I was absolutely obsessed with pod racing. I remember having this micro machines pod races that I used to race everywhere.
Don't forget about Pit Droids or Droidworks! I'd say Pit Droids is a tie in for Phantom Menance just because they only appear in Episode 1, it's also a *fantastic* puzzle game that never gets enough visiblity
Yeah but at the time it was made they were only in episode 1. Its a Lucas Learning game not a LucasArts game. Most vids like this don't include lucas Learning games.
I still play pod racer from time to time. Such great memories. I always hoped EA's Criterion Games would make a brand new modern pod racing game when EA got the gaming rights.
I mean they did re release pod racer for ps5 and Xbox series. But I do wish they would make a part 3 of racer. Part 2 was cool because anakin was older
@@zanfear "I mean" is another form of "in all fairness" with specific tonal and contextual implications, it doesn't work to remove it from the sentence entirely. I mean, if we removed all words and phrases with interesting implications and effects on the preceding or following sentence, wouldn't English be more boring?
I love that Obi-Wan game. Its nothing amazing, but I spent so many hours playing that game as a kid and the way you controlled the lightsaber was like nothing else. I actually really liked that they ended up using the second stick control scheme for Skyward Sword HD.
Definitely. It was a great feeling to swing left or right based on enemy positions. Also making shot reflection being based on pressing the right stick down at the right time (a narrow window) was always rewarding.
I remember Jedi Power Battles fondly, although I also recall getting mad at my friends who wanted to go their own direction and the camera would drag behind trying to keep both characters in view. Then I visited a friend who had The Phantom Menace and was amazed at the more story oriented parts, especially the multi-dialogue options.
I loved the Obi Wan game as a kid. The missions where you fight each jedi council member were cool, and the battal royale bonus mission was really fun. Also there's a post credits Trainspotting easter egg.
I remember playing this at like 6-7 years old and beating it in front of my dad and he lost his SHIT when he heard the ending easter egg, I wish i could've appreciated it in the moment when i was a child but that movie aint for kids
a few more maybe worth a mention: Demolition spanned a lot of star wars content but included vehicles, locales and species from episode 1. Galactic Battlegrounds had two entire factions and campaigns set during/around episode 1. And there's also a version of Pod Racer for arcade that had dual controls like in Anakin's pod.
Demolition is etched in my memory. Star Wars twisted metal. Highlights of boba fetts head rolling round as you smash him into things, the Wookiee piloting a stolen droid tank, and shooting the big cannon on both until it shoots and bombs somebody. Also those story videos were ahead of their time for worldbuilding and graphics.
Don't forget about The Gungan Frontier, the PC title that let's you create an ecosystem full of creatures on one of Naboo's moons. Really neat little title.
Oh it was great! Author needs to make a part with missed Star Wars games from the era... let me see, people mentioned Pit Droids game, there's a PC desktop app Yoda Stories, Gungan Frontier, and a bunch of other strategies... Also Jedi Knight games kept being made, and they gradually introduced prequel content like dual sabers in Academy. I think a video with PC games specifically might get those together as well as KOTOR, as it absolutely codified stuff like force power hierarchy, saber colors and crystal lore, Jedi classes and expanded on Phantom Menace's mind trick system where you have a separate non-force persuade skill as well and they act differently.
I would also count "Galactic Battlegrounds", as the Trade Federation single-player campaign had you playing through the events of the movie from the Federation's POV (seen through droid commander OOM-9).
The Phantom Menace video game was the one, which worked for me :D The whole experience so close to the movie and new setting, various droids and talkative characters in Theed and Mos Espa - this was something truly new with Star Wars for me. I always wanted to explore some new areas in the galaxy, especially towns and streets, and TPM video game offered just that.
@@KasumiRINA I felt the same way! And despite being old TPM showed Tatooine quite vividly. I expected the same level of background in Mysteries of the Sith, which offered browsing through the halls of the Ka'Pa's Palace, and the streets of Katraasi Spaceport... Yet it was Mos Espa with all these bizarre aliens and thugs, traders with Dung Worms, Rancor-Skin Jacket and Chokie! As well as the cantinas with Jury Juice and unique music.
You need to time the blocks to hit the blasters back at it. But you can avoid killing it and rack up points on droids to get max rank, that let you get health, combo and Force power upgrades. It was essential to make game less grindingly hard. Also there's a place in first level where there are two 1ups between checkpoints, so getting both then yeeting yourself into a bottomless pit let you hoard a bit of lives.
Jedi Power Battles (the PS1 version) still remains to be my favorite Star Wars game. I have so many memories playing it with my dad. I still play it from time to time. It's why Plo Koon is my favorite Jedi. I mean look at him, he looks sweet and that orange lightsaber helps.
I don't know why Racer Revenge is so overlooked. The original is great, but so is this one. Some of the tracks were so incredibly cool and offered good variety. There was a good number of interesting characters to play as, and the game looks great. Although I may be biased since I grew up playing it, but I still think it's an incredible game that deserves much more attention.
i had a problem with the screen looking way too busy. also despite saying "you don't have to kill the other racers to win" i swear you sometimes did for the extra points.
Damned into being a console exclusive, for one. Still, would like to see it miraculously given multiplatform polished ports, alongside Bounty Hunter, Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, and the PS2/Wii/PSP version of The Force Unleashed.
Honestly for me it was solely because they removed Neva Kee I just really liked the design of his podracer enough so that I prefer playing the first game just to use it.
Ah, yes, you could unlock Darth Maul and a bunch of levels were from Phantom Menace despite game timeline being set between episodes 5 and 6. One thing about Demolition: turning off regeneration pads on levels makes it immediately more fun. You can still heal, but enemies stop being sponges. Best part was easily all cars feeling unique, and having endless (chargeable) unique specials, the harpoon car grabbing them behind you, Boba Fett with his tiny hitbox, Rancor on foot and smashing the rest, I loved it! It was like a third Vigilante 8 game.
Star Wars Episode I: Racer was the only Star Wars: Episode I game I had as a kid (the PC version) and I loved it so much and still do. As a kid I always thought of it as a mix of a rollercoaster ride and a flight simulator.
I know it's a long shot, but I would love to see you someday look at the several CD-Rom games The Phantom Menace had when it was new. There was one entirely centered around Jar Jar. Another was a droid game.
Have you played all pirates of the Caribbean games? It would be cool if you compared each of them like you did with harry potter and all the versions too
If I had the money, and space, to have a dedicated games/arcade room, along with stuff like Time Crisis 2, House of the Dead 3, and a pool table, I'd absolutely have two linked Star Wars Episode: I: Racer Deluxe cabinets, it had a life-size Pod Racer on hydraulics that leaned with the game - that was absolutely incredible back in the day!
@@thatguykalem It was so good - I am thinking about trying to open a "Barcade" here in Cambridge, if I can get the investors, and those machines would be the first on my list of purchases.
Racer on the GBC, I'd play that constantly, the triple aaa battery rumble pack attached to the top was a nice, all be it useless touch. Philosophers Stone/Sorcerers Stone on GBC was pretty fricken good too
you could conside Battlefront I a Semi tie-in ,first 2 mission are to fight as the Trade Federation against gungans on naboo plains and then the second is to fight the royal guard on naboo theed,hell you can even consider it even an EP2 tie-in as well
I've literally only played the Podracing games lol. Played a fair amount of the original Racer on PC (to the point it was many years before I learned it wasn't a PC exclusive), and my brother managed to borrow a copy of Racer Revenge for a brief time so I played that one.
Great video! I have two fun notes: While not a phantom menace tie-in game, the first rogue squadron game has a Naboo Starfighter cheat code that no one found for months. Does it technically make it the first phantom menace game?🤔 Also, Jedi Power Battles began production before it was decided that Mace Windu had a purple lightsaber so In the game and on the cover he has a blue one. :)
Not just cover, he had slightly different shade of blue ingame. On Dreamcast, the unfinished conehead character had purple saber instead (he reused other people's attacks but had unique combos). Adi Gallia also uses red saber while in official lore she has something more boring, so does Plo Koon, yellow saber was THE thing everyone wanted. What impressed me the most was choreography in Jedi Power Battles: it was made before episodes 2 and 3 and those movies have Plo and Mace do EXACT same moves as ingame animations with unique style. Also PS1 really lacked coop beatemups so this was a mainstay.
I remember there being another Episode 1 tie-in game for the PC where the player is tasked with looking after the wild-life of a planet or something. LucasArt was really throwing paint at a canvas for that.
My favorite is the Phantom Menace game on PS1. I had it as a kid but after a while the disc became unreadable. I got a new copy of the game for my birthday last month. I played and own most of these games except for Bombad Racing, the gameboy Obi-Wan game, the GBA Jedi Power Battles and Racer Revenge
Your OG video on the Episode 1 game is one of my favorites, so another was a wonderful surprise. Racer Revenge was a hell of a ride as a kid. I remember going off a ramp and landing on another pod, smashing it to pieces moments before crossing tue finish line.
I actually recall one more game. A citybuilder set on Naboo, where you had to balance economy and environment... Never played it, just saw some trailers on TV, but I wonder, whether it's still out there somewhere
Yep, I found the Outlaws room. It really is a great labor of love how much stuff is packed into this game and it’s sequel, a user named SlyCooperReloadedCoded is going through a lot of the files currently and there is stuff like a cut Rhys appearance in the 2nd game.
For the teen Anakin returning to racing... he actually did that while on a Jedi mission. Just like Obi-Wan had a pre-Episode 1 series following his adventures as Qui-Gon's apprentice called Jedi Apprentice, there was another book series set between Episodes 1 and 2 called Jedi Quest following Anakin as Obi-Wan's apprentice. Fun fact, this is referenced in the beginning of Attack of the Clones when they're taking the elevator up to meet Padme and they referenced falling into a nest of Gundarks. That happened in one of the books. All that to say that on one mission, IIRC, Anakin got separated from Obi-Wan and captured and forced (?) into a race. The person was the one who bought his pod after his Boonta race in TPM so he got to pilot his same podracer. But now that he had some training in the Force he was even better at racing.
Man I loved both Jedi power battles and the movie tie in game on ps1 and also loved star fighter on ps2. They might sadly not hold up very well in today’s gaming environment but I could still play any of those three and have a good time!
I was really bad at Star Wars Racer Revenge, but I loved the mechanic of using the duel sticks for the left and right engines. I know the original game technically had that too, but it required holding two N64 controllers...
I played Racer Revenge and I loved it. Yes, it was visually amazing and quite immersive with its varied environments. I liked how it gave you options for control methods. You could use the analog sticks to control each engine separately, but if you can't make it work, you can always go back to the familiar left-thumb-only mode.
I loved Jedi Power Battles myself and the RPG part in official Ep. 1 game, but almost everyone loved the vehicle games, the Racer was pretty good and I enjoyed the 2-3 flying games that are relevant again since Mandalorian got that Naboo ship to fly.
FYI, Darth Maul was unlockable in the GBA version of power battles. I don't remember how, I used a GameShark as a kid, but he was sweet because he spun his lightsaber every time he jumped and did damage
The podracer arcade game was one of my favorites growing up. You sat in the pod, and each hand took a handle like the actual film version and it even would lean left and right depending on the turn. It blew me away as a kid. SOOOOOO many quarters went to that, TMNT arcade, area 51, and house of the dead. Being born in 92, I got to enjoy the last hurrah of arcade gaming... And boy was it wonderful.
I guess I suffer from Mandela effect because I really though that you already made Episode 1 tie in games video. Must be from all those lego games and seperate power battles videos.
I’ve been wanting to play the Obiwan Xbox game for a while now. I’m not expecting anything amazing, it’s just so elusive being one of the few OG Xbox games that was never made backwards compatible and I think it looks interesting
@@cu1tc1assic I mean if you want to stay legal will this however not be easy. The XBox has a weird disk drive leading to DVD's for it to not be readable on a regular DVD Drive. Additionally will getting a legal copy of an XBox Bios be not easy ether... All of this is assuming you want to be legal about it.
@@cu1tc1assic I love when people like you use this as some “gotcha”. Get it through your head that most console gamers will not switch to PC, the constant sales pitch is obnoxious
I played almost every single one of these games growing up in this era with the exception of the two Obi-Wan titles. My first two games I got on PS2 were literally Racer Revenge and Super Bombad Racing and I remember thinking Racer Revenge and Starfighter had the best graphics I'd ever seen. What's amazing is, while none of these are exactly masterpieces today, at the time I played and enjoyed all of them. They may have been cash-grabs, but all were solid in their own way and felt different enough to justify their existence with good developers behind the wheel.
There was also a podracing game for the arcade simply called Star Wars Racer Arcade. It's fairly similar to the original game but with better graphics (maybe just me but the screen felt massive) and of course a great two throttle control setup. I played it once at a Sega Gameworks, seems like it was a pretty uncommon machine
Got to be phantom menace on the PS1 and pod racing on the N64. Remember looking through the isles at ToysRus and all the phantom menace merchandise, the shelves looked like they went 10 stories high and buying both games for my birthday. Also the amount of hours spent on the Phantom menace game exploring Mos Espa, fantastic game and quite challenging at times. What I'd do to go back.
Spent many hours playing Jedi Power Battles as a kid, it was tough especially on harder difficulties but a fun time. Never did unlock all the secret levels
I think "And whatever you do, don't fall into the ketchup" is probably one of the best jokes you've made, just because of how well you delivered the line. 🤣
16:24 I'm gonna be honest here, I had no idea Racers got a sequel. I remember the first one and I remember liking it quite a bit. I never knew they made another one
You forgot Galactic Battlegrounds, which had campaigns for TPM and the OT era. There was legit a Trade Federation campaign that takes place during the occupation of Naboo, and you see how they solidified their control over the planet, as well as an Imperial campaign that followed Vader after ANH. There were even two Wookiee campaigns, the first one takes place before Phantom Menace where Qui-Gon teaches the Wookiees how to wage a proper war, as they colonize some faraway planet, and the second campaign takes place during the New Republic era where they liberate Kashyyyk from the remnants of the Empire.
Oh, yeah, and both the "evil" campaigns ended with simulations of what would have happened had the Naboo and the Rebels lost on their home planet and Endor respectively. Alas, the Force had other ideas... In the meantime, GB wasn't exactly a contemporary tie-in for TPM, so that's probably why it didn't count for the time being.
Episode 1 Racer is the most playable of these today especially the new Xbox release which is fantastic. I'd love to see a remaster of some of the others like Starfighter which had wonderful potential.
I loved playing The Phantom Menace game when i was younger! I would replay the Mos Espa mission so many times.. this video definitely brings back some great memories when i was a kid!
Racer and Racer Revenge are soooo good. I remember playing both of those with my friends when they came out. I still play the ports on switch and PC. Starfigher was also very fun, along with its sequel Jedi Starfigher.
ep 1 racer feels so good on n64 because of the boost mechanic, if you ever got good at F-ZERO X you might enjoy it ALOT more, the goals to push the engines to their limits without catching on fire, i.e overheating, it's a fine good balance to get. good game-play still love it.
All right! Now we've got comparison videos for all the prequel trilogy tie-in games! Now all we need is a video comparing every tie-in game for the Clone Wars animated series! Also, I'd like to see you do comparison videos for the Spider-Man movie tie-in games, since I've recently started watching the original Spider-Man movies on DVD.
Star Wars: Starfighter was both the first video game I played and the first introduction to Star Wars I had, so seeing that it's not forgotten is awesome.
I remember that painting area! I always wondered what those pictures were. They were too blurry to make out back in the day on my CRT. Cool to know they were from another game.
Oh my God, thank you for talking about the Starfigher easter egg. I also thought I had dreamt that, especially since I just could NOT recreate the stupid thing and was a beyond confused. I loved this and Bombad racer SO much
There is an amusement park with an arcade hall here, in which there is a star wars pod racing game from the Episode 1 era. It has been there since forever. It is pretty cool as you can be four players racing off.
When I got my PS2 for Christmas in 2002, the one game I got with it was Racer Revenge, and that was the only game I had for the entire next year. I don’t even know how many times I’ve played it through. When it came out again on PlayStation 4, I got it immediately. And after almost 20 years, I still have every single track perfectly memorized. I will also definitely be playing it with my kids when they can
Fun story about Battle for Naboo, on the N64 you can turn off the voices, so when I bought the cart second hand I thought mine was broken copy cause I just had cutscenes with FX but no voicelines, it was hilarious when I found the option in the menu
I remember hiring Racer Revenge from Blockbuster. Played it for a few minutes and hated that you don’t respawn after you crash like the original and haven’t played it since.
1:33 in-universe, podracing was indeed an intergalactic sport, the then-canon Star Wars: Republic comic portrayed Sebulba racing the Vinta Harvest Classic using his new podracer (formerly Anakin's). Then it got cracked down by the Empire following the Declaration of a New Order, but it still found a way to survive as the sport was still around by the time of the Legacy comics. In the current canon, it got outlawed by the New Republic (less stringently as the Empire did on Legends) but still thrived on the fringe.
Gotta love those Legends comics. Also, for extra trivia, Anakin's podracer was actually seen sold to Sebulba by Qui-Gon in the Episode I Adventures comics.
It was truly a time when the relatively short development time to create a decent game opened up for a breadth of licensed games that we simply can't get these days. I wonder how many fans were created by having this variety of ways to "live the movie", even if they were not all made equal.
This is the nostalgia trip you’ve been searching for.
Yippie!
This is where the fun begins
@@aamirrazak3467Flying is for droids!
This is the nostalgia trip I have been searching for.
Couldn't have said it better myself. As someone who was there and lived it, that episode 1 era was fun.
You forgot The Gungan Frontier. The objective of the game is to terraform a moon and build a Gungan colony. There was a cool ecology management aspect to the game that set it apart from Sim City. It was rather unique IMHO.
Late comment, but as a current WORKING Ecologist who played that game growing up, its absolutely NAILED ecological processes in game mechanics i've never seen replicated elsewhere. I feel like it was a psyops that totally worked on me.
Oh damn, I remember seeing an article about it in some PC magazine back in the day! Completely forgot about it!
Galactic Battlegrounds too. Only prequel RTS out there
In Legends the lore related to that game got really fucked up
"**Spits water** THE MOON?!"
-JonTron
Battle for Naboo is one that still sticks with me, I spent so much time in that one and to this day the N1-Starfighter is my favorite spaceship in any fiction.
RIP Captain Kael.
Friend had a collection of Star Wars games on PC and the ones I went through were the two where you fly the new Mandalorian ship. They were good, if short.
I liked Rogue Squadron more
Agree, I have very good memories of my dad and I playing that game, and yes the N1 starfighter is so cool-looking, it is among my top 5 favourite Starfighters of any universe.
When I was 8 years old I walked 4.5 miles to the nearest toys r us to play the pod racing game on the n64 demo case. I was gone for hours, my mom had no idea where I was and reported me missing to the police. About a mile away from returning home a police officer saw me walking and picked me up. I was absolutely obsessed with pod racing. I remember having this micro machines pod races that I used to race everywhere.
Don't forget about Pit Droids or Droidworks! I'd say Pit Droids is a tie in for Phantom Menance just because they only appear in Episode 1, it's also a *fantastic* puzzle game that never gets enough visiblity
Pit droids are also in Mandalorian which is a nice touch, but whether or not that counts is another story
Yeah but at the time it was made they were only in episode 1. Its a Lucas Learning game not a LucasArts game. Most vids like this don't include lucas Learning games.
@@DanBen07 but bombad racing was made by lucas learning
@@megahedgehog2039 Actually it's made by both LucasArts and Lucas learning
Star Wars: Demolition featured PM settings 1 year after PM released as well
I still play pod racer from time to time. Such great memories. I always hoped EA's Criterion Games would make a brand new modern pod racing game when EA got the gaming rights.
Squadrons even had a pod-racer decoration for your cockpit.
I mean they did re release pod racer for ps5 and Xbox series. But I do wish they would make a part 3 of racer. Part 2 was cool because anakin was older
@@MrDumdumkilla Instead of starting your statement with "I mean", just say what you mean.
@@zanfear "I mean" is another form of "in all fairness" with specific tonal and contextual implications, it doesn't work to remove it from the sentence entirely. I mean, if we removed all words and phrases with interesting implications and effects on the preceding or following sentence, wouldn't English be more boring?
@@ravenanne1734 Yeah, like, you're right.
I love that Obi-Wan game. Its nothing amazing, but I spent so many hours playing that game as a kid and the way you controlled the lightsaber was like nothing else. I actually really liked that they ended up using the second stick control scheme for Skyward Sword HD.
Also obi wan doing a funny poem after the credits was hilarious
Agreed, it was one of my first Star Wars games
I enjoyed doing the slow-motion glitch.
Definitely. It was a great feeling to swing left or right based on enemy positions. Also making shot reflection being based on pressing the right stick down at the right time (a narrow window) was always rewarding.
I remember Jedi Power Battles fondly, although I also recall getting mad at my friends who wanted to go their own direction and the camera would drag behind trying to keep both characters in view. Then I visited a friend who had The Phantom Menace and was amazed at the more story oriented parts, especially the multi-dialogue options.
Yeah, the Phantom Menace is a slow burn world building where Jedi power battles is just a wild hack and slash!
I loved the Obi Wan game as a kid. The missions where you fight each jedi council member were cool, and the battal royale bonus mission was really fun. Also there's a post credits Trainspotting easter egg.
I remember playing this at like 6-7 years old and beating it in front of my dad and he lost his SHIT when he heard the ending easter egg, I wish i could've appreciated it in the moment when i was a child but that movie aint for kids
a few more maybe worth a mention: Demolition spanned a lot of star wars content but included vehicles, locales and species from episode 1. Galactic Battlegrounds had two entire factions and campaigns set during/around episode 1. And there's also a version of Pod Racer for arcade that had dual controls like in Anakin's pod.
Demolition is etched in my memory. Star Wars twisted metal. Highlights of boba fetts head rolling round as you smash him into things, the Wookiee piloting a stolen droid tank, and shooting the big cannon on both until it shoots and bombs somebody. Also those story videos were ahead of their time for worldbuilding and graphics.
On hoth*
Don't forget about The Gungan Frontier, the PC title that let's you create an ecosystem full of creatures on one of Naboo's moons. Really neat little title.
Oh it was great! Author needs to make a part with missed Star Wars games from the era... let me see, people mentioned Pit Droids game, there's a PC desktop app Yoda Stories, Gungan Frontier, and a bunch of other strategies... Also Jedi Knight games kept being made, and they gradually introduced prequel content like dual sabers in Academy. I think a video with PC games specifically might get those together as well as KOTOR, as it absolutely codified stuff like force power hierarchy, saber colors and crystal lore, Jedi classes and expanded on Phantom Menace's mind trick system where you have a separate non-force persuade skill as well and they act differently.
I would also count "Galactic Battlegrounds", as the Trade Federation single-player campaign had you playing through the events of the movie from the Federation's POV (seen through droid commander OOM-9).
The Phantom Menace video game was the one, which worked for me :D The whole experience so close to the movie and new setting, various droids and talkative characters in Theed and Mos Espa - this was something truly new with Star Wars for me. I always wanted to explore some new areas in the galaxy, especially towns and streets, and TPM video game offered just that.
TBH the Tattooine part was the first game that made me feel living in that world, and I didn't see it since anywhere else apart from KOTOR dilogy.
@@KasumiRINA I felt the same way! And despite being old TPM showed Tatooine quite vividly. I expected the same level of background in Mysteries of the Sith, which offered browsing through the halls of the Ka'Pa's Palace, and the streets of Katraasi Spaceport... Yet it was Mos Espa with all these bizarre aliens and thugs, traders with Dung Worms, Rancor-Skin Jacket and Chokie! As well as the cantinas with Jury Juice and unique music.
I remember playing Jedi Power Battles as a kid and I could never figure out how to beat that droid starfighter boss at the end of the first level
You need to time the blocks to hit the blasters back at it. But you can avoid killing it and rack up points on droids to get max rank, that let you get health, combo and Force power upgrades. It was essential to make game less grindingly hard. Also there's a place in first level where there are two 1ups between checkpoints, so getting both then yeeting yourself into a bottomless pit let you hoard a bit of lives.
Jedi Power Battles (the PS1 version) still remains to be my favorite Star Wars game. I have so many memories playing it with my dad. I still play it from time to time. It's why Plo Koon is my favorite Jedi. I mean look at him, he looks sweet and that orange lightsaber helps.
I don't know why Racer Revenge is so overlooked. The original is great, but so is this one. Some of the tracks were so incredibly cool and offered good variety. There was a good number of interesting characters to play as, and the game looks great. Although I may be biased since I grew up playing it, but I still think it's an incredible game that deserves much more attention.
Felt really slow and sluggish. Like your racing through treacle.
i had a problem with the screen looking way too busy. also despite saying "you don't have to kill the other racers to win" i swear you sometimes did for the extra points.
Damned into being a console exclusive, for one. Still, would like to see it miraculously given multiplatform polished ports, alongside Bounty Hunter, Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, and the PS2/Wii/PSP version of The Force Unleashed.
Honestly for me it was solely because they removed Neva Kee I just really liked the design of his podracer enough so that I prefer playing the first game just to use it.
I still play the phantom menace every once in a while. It has just enough variance in how to play and secrets in every level to make it fun each time.
Star Wars Demolition is also an interesting game from this era that has Phantom Menace content.
Ah, yes, you could unlock Darth Maul and a bunch of levels were from Phantom Menace despite game timeline being set between episodes 5 and 6.
One thing about Demolition: turning off regeneration pads on levels makes it immediately more fun. You can still heal, but enemies stop being sponges. Best part was easily all cars feeling unique, and having endless (chargeable) unique specials, the harpoon car grabbing them behind you, Boba Fett with his tiny hitbox, Rancor on foot and smashing the rest, I loved it! It was like a third Vigilante 8 game.
You're one of the best content creators on the platform. The passion you put into these really shows
Agreed, definitely one of the most underrated channels for sure. The attention to detail and time spent creating these videos shows big time
Star Wars Episode I: Racer was the only Star Wars: Episode I game I had as a kid (the PC version) and I loved it so much and still do. As a kid I always thought of it as a mix of a rollercoaster ride and a flight simulator.
Your content hits my nostalgia spot just right
Nice to see some love for Racer Revenge. I remember getting that for my birthday before I went to see Attack of the Clones.
I know it's a long shot, but I would love to see you someday look at the several CD-Rom games The Phantom Menace had when it was new. There was one entirely centered around Jar Jar. Another was a droid game.
Have you played all pirates of the Caribbean games? It would be cool if you compared each of them like you did with harry potter and all the versions too
Goddamn I played the black pearl game for PS2 as a kid. It was hot garbage, but fun nonetheless
The LEGO game rules, far as I know.
If I had the money, and space, to have a dedicated games/arcade room, along with stuff like Time Crisis 2, House of the Dead 3, and a pool table, I'd absolutely have two linked Star Wars Episode: I: Racer Deluxe cabinets, it had a life-size Pod Racer on hydraulics that leaned with the game - that was absolutely incredible back in the day!
I have the most vivid memories of that machine 20 years later. It was so unbelievably cool.
@@thatguykalem It was so good - I am thinking about trying to open a "Barcade" here in Cambridge, if I can get the investors, and those machines would be the first on my list of purchases.
Racer on the GBC, I'd play that constantly, the triple aaa battery rumble pack attached to the top was a nice, all be it useless touch.
Philosophers Stone/Sorcerers Stone on GBC was pretty fricken good too
you could conside Battlefront I a Semi tie-in ,first 2 mission are to fight as the Trade Federation against gungans on naboo plains and then the second is to fight the royal guard on naboo theed,hell you can even consider it even an EP2 tie-in as well
I've literally only played the Podracing games lol. Played a fair amount of the original Racer on PC (to the point it was many years before I learned it wasn't a PC exclusive), and my brother managed to borrow a copy of Racer Revenge for a brief time so I played that one.
Jedi Power Battles and Demolition were the games I used to play the most at the time.
Great video! I have two fun notes:
While not a phantom menace tie-in game, the first rogue squadron game has a Naboo Starfighter cheat code that no one found for months. Does it technically make it the first phantom menace game?🤔
Also, Jedi Power Battles began production before it was decided that Mace Windu had a purple lightsaber so In the game and on the cover he has a blue one. :)
Before Battle of Naboo, right?
@@TheAzureNightmare yes! :)
Not just cover, he had slightly different shade of blue ingame. On Dreamcast, the unfinished conehead character had purple saber instead (he reused other people's attacks but had unique combos). Adi Gallia also uses red saber while in official lore she has something more boring, so does Plo Koon, yellow saber was THE thing everyone wanted. What impressed me the most was choreography in Jedi Power Battles: it was made before episodes 2 and 3 and those movies have Plo and Mace do EXACT same moves as ingame animations with unique style. Also PS1 really lacked coop beatemups so this was a mainstay.
I wouldn't call Rogue Squadron a TPM game exactly, but rather the first one
to include a direct reference to that episode
I remember there being another Episode 1 tie-in game for the PC where the player is tasked with looking after the wild-life of a planet or something. LucasArt was really throwing paint at a canvas for that.
That one was called Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier
Playing The Gungan Frontier is one of my earliest memories of videogames. No idea if it was actually good or not but I loved it 😂
My favorite is the Phantom Menace game on PS1. I had it as a kid but after a while the disc became unreadable. I got a new copy of the game for my birthday last month.
I played and own most of these games except for Bombad Racing, the gameboy Obi-Wan game, the GBA Jedi Power Battles and Racer Revenge
Your OG video on the Episode 1 game is one of my favorites, so another was a wonderful surprise.
Racer Revenge was a hell of a ride as a kid. I remember going off a ramp and landing on another pod, smashing it to pieces moments before crossing tue finish line.
Your videos on Star Wars games have inspired me to try playing all the different Star Wars games over the years, as well as their different versions.
I actually recall one more game. A citybuilder set on Naboo, where you had to balance economy and environment... Never played it, just saw some trailers on TV, but I wonder, whether it's still out there somewhere
Yep, I found the Outlaws room. It really is a great labor of love how much stuff is packed into this game and it’s sequel, a user named SlyCooperReloadedCoded is going through a lot of the files currently and there is stuff like a cut Rhys appearance in the 2nd game.
man i love these types of videos, keep it up!
For the teen Anakin returning to racing... he actually did that while on a Jedi mission. Just like Obi-Wan had a pre-Episode 1 series following his adventures as Qui-Gon's apprentice called Jedi Apprentice, there was another book series set between Episodes 1 and 2 called Jedi Quest following Anakin as Obi-Wan's apprentice. Fun fact, this is referenced in the beginning of Attack of the Clones when they're taking the elevator up to meet Padme and they referenced falling into a nest of Gundarks. That happened in one of the books.
All that to say that on one mission, IIRC, Anakin got separated from Obi-Wan and captured and forced (?) into a race. The person was the one who bought his pod after his Boonta race in TPM so he got to pilot his same podracer. But now that he had some training in the Force he was even better at racing.
Love these videos a hell of a lot! Keep em coming 🔥
There was also Sega's Episode 1 Pod Racer arcade game, which was a completely different game to the console versions.
I remember waking up on Christmas morning and unwrapping my N64 along with battle for Naboo, it was pure joy and one of my fondest memories.
Man I loved both Jedi power battles and the movie tie in game on ps1 and also loved star fighter on ps2. They might sadly not hold up very well in today’s gaming environment but I could still play any of those three and have a good time!
I was really bad at Star Wars Racer Revenge, but I loved the mechanic of using the duel sticks for the left and right engines. I know the original game technically had that too, but it required holding two N64 controllers...
I played Racer Revenge and I loved it. Yes, it was visually amazing and quite immersive with its varied environments. I liked how it gave you options for control methods. You could use the analog sticks to control each engine separately, but if you can't make it work, you can always go back to the familiar left-thumb-only mode.
I loved Jedi Power Battles myself and the RPG part in official Ep. 1 game, but almost everyone loved the vehicle games, the Racer was pretty good and I enjoyed the 2-3 flying games that are relevant again since Mandalorian got that Naboo ship to fly.
Awesome Im glad you this video, I really enjoyed the Ep II tie-in games video.
FYI, Darth Maul was unlockable in the GBA version of power battles. I don't remember how, I used a GameShark as a kid, but he was sweet because he spun his lightsaber every time he jumped and did damage
So excited you did this, was waiting for a highlight of the XB Obi Wan game
The podracer arcade game was one of my favorites growing up. You sat in the pod, and each hand took a handle like the actual film version and it even would lean left and right depending on the turn. It blew me away as a kid. SOOOOOO many quarters went to that, TMNT arcade, area 51, and house of the dead.
Being born in 92, I got to enjoy the last hurrah of arcade gaming... And boy was it wonderful.
I guess I suffer from Mandela effect because I really though that you already made Episode 1 tie in games video. Must be from all those lego games and seperate power battles videos.
I’ve been wanting to play the Obiwan Xbox game for a while now. I’m not expecting anything amazing, it’s just so elusive being one of the few OG Xbox games that was never made backwards compatible and I think it looks interesting
Its almost as if pc emulators exist that can play any game ever created for free….
@@cu1tc1assic I mean if you want to stay legal will this however not be easy.
The XBox has a weird disk drive leading to DVD's for it to not be readable on a regular DVD Drive.
Additionally will getting a legal copy of an XBox Bios be not easy ether...
All of this is assuming you want to be legal about it.
@@cu1tc1assic I love when people like you use this as some “gotcha”. Get it through your head that most console gamers will not switch to PC, the constant sales pitch is obnoxious
@c1ltc1assic I can get the same unofficial emulator on my Xbox. So much for your evangelism.
I was wondering if you would mention the Outlaw picture easter egg in Starfighter. I did indeed find that as a kid.
Really hope he makes a video for this game, and NOT discount it as another Doom clone, or perhaps a Dark Forces rip-off.
I remember the Episode 1 racer. That was fun. On Game Boy Color, I remember the rumble feature
I played almost every single one of these games growing up in this era with the exception of the two Obi-Wan titles. My first two games I got on PS2 were literally Racer Revenge and Super Bombad Racing and I remember thinking Racer Revenge and Starfighter had the best graphics I'd ever seen. What's amazing is, while none of these are exactly masterpieces today, at the time I played and enjoyed all of them. They may have been cash-grabs, but all were solid in their own way and felt different enough to justify their existence with good developers behind the wheel.
I wish EP2 got a Jedi Power Battles game. Arcadie action fits the series
What an undersubscribed channel. Your videos are getting better and better. Keep up the good work, I just insta subbed 😊
There was also a podracing game for the arcade simply called Star Wars Racer Arcade. It's fairly similar to the original game but with better graphics (maybe just me but the screen felt massive) and of course a great two throttle control setup. I played it once at a Sega Gameworks, seems like it was a pretty uncommon machine
Yessss, I've been waiting for this one for a while now.
Got to be phantom menace on the PS1 and pod racing on the N64. Remember looking through the isles at ToysRus and all the phantom menace merchandise, the shelves looked like they went 10 stories high and buying both games for my birthday. Also the amount of hours spent on the Phantom menace game exploring Mos Espa, fantastic game and quite challenging at times. What I'd do to go back.
Spent many hours playing Jedi Power Battles as a kid, it was tough especially on harder difficulties but a fun time. Never did unlock all the secret levels
This is the type of video that i needed to watch for a long damn time. Thank you :)
I think "And whatever you do, don't fall into the ketchup" is probably one of the best jokes you've made, just because of how well you delivered the line. 🤣
16:24 I'm gonna be honest here, I had no idea Racers got a sequel. I remember the first one and I remember liking it quite a bit. I never knew they made another one
Even TV Tropes acknowledges said obscurity of the sequel, I'll say.
Most of them were my childhood along with the awesome N1-Starfighter in Rogue Squadron
You forgot Galactic Battlegrounds, which had campaigns for TPM and the OT era. There was legit a Trade Federation campaign that takes place during the occupation of Naboo, and you see how they solidified their control over the planet, as well as an Imperial campaign that followed Vader after ANH. There were even two Wookiee campaigns, the first one takes place before Phantom Menace where Qui-Gon teaches the Wookiees how to wage a proper war, as they colonize some faraway planet, and the second campaign takes place during the New Republic era where they liberate Kashyyyk from the remnants of the Empire.
Oh, yeah, and both the "evil" campaigns ended with simulations of what would have happened had the Naboo and the Rebels lost on their home planet and Endor respectively. Alas, the Force had other ideas...
In the meantime, GB wasn't exactly a contemporary tie-in for TPM, so that's probably why it didn't count for the time being.
Love the videos keep them coming
I love Pod Racers. It was my first N64 game and I still play it once in a while
Episode 1 Racer is the most playable of these today especially the new Xbox release which is fantastic. I'd love to see a remaster of some of the others like Starfighter which had wonderful potential.
You know flan boy,I don't know what it is about you my goodness. If you upload I HAVE to watch.
some of my favourite content lately
I loved playing The Phantom Menace game when i was younger! I would replay the Mos Espa mission so many times.. this video definitely brings back some great memories when i was a kid!
Racer and Racer Revenge are soooo good. I remember playing both of those with my friends when they came out. I still play the ports on switch and PC. Starfigher was also very fun, along with its sequel Jedi Starfigher.
ep 1 racer feels so good on n64 because of the boost mechanic, if you ever got good at F-ZERO X you might enjoy it ALOT more, the goals to push the engines to their limits without catching on fire, i.e overheating, it's a fine good balance to get. good game-play still love it.
Love your videos!
Quality work as always! Keep it up
I was only aware of the Obi wan game the TPM game and starfighter had no clue there were 9 tie in game! Awesome work as always flandrew
All right! Now we've got comparison videos for all the prequel trilogy tie-in games! Now all we need is a video comparing every tie-in game for the Clone Wars animated series! Also, I'd like to see you do comparison videos for the Spider-Man movie tie-in games, since I've recently started watching the original Spider-Man movies on DVD.
Battle for Naboo is so underrated! Grew up on that one and Pod Racer! We had a Pod Racer arcade machine at our local AMC Theatre!
Just imagine an alternate universe where Anakin leaves the Jedi Order and goes back to pod racing.
lol Great vid. I loved EP1 racer and The Phantom Menace game.
"Better stand back, mister as I'm about to slash.. ALL my prices!"
Star Wars: Starfighter was both the first video game I played and the first introduction to Star Wars I had, so seeing that it's not forgotten is awesome.
I remember that painting area! I always wondered what those pictures were. They were too blurry to make out back in the day on my CRT. Cool to know they were from another game.
Oh my God, thank you for talking about the Starfigher easter egg. I also thought I had dreamt that, especially since I just could NOT recreate the stupid thing and was a beyond confused. I loved this and Bombad racer SO much
The GBA version of Jedi Power Battles was amazing, very fun at the time
The Phantom Menace and Jedi Power Battles are the ones I remember the most. I never beat either one as they were way too difficult though
There is an amusement park with an arcade hall here, in which there is a star wars pod racing game from the Episode 1 era. It has been there since forever. It is pretty cool as you can be four players racing off.
When I got my PS2 for Christmas in 2002, the one game I got with it was Racer Revenge, and that was the only game I had for the entire next year. I don’t even know how many times I’ve played it through. When it came out again on PlayStation 4, I got it immediately. And after almost 20 years, I still have every single track perfectly memorized. I will also definitely be playing it with my kids when they can
4:24 I only ever played the PS1 Version. Over and Over. And it was awesome, haha.
Episode 1 racer was absolutely a blast at the time, I remember 100%ing it because it was just so much fun
Happy to see Battle for Naboo getting some love. It's just as great as Rogue Squadron
Laughed out loud multiple times. Well done lad
Fun story about Battle for Naboo, on the N64 you can turn off the voices, so when I bought the cart second hand I thought mine was broken copy cause I just had cutscenes with FX but no voicelines, it was hilarious when I found the option in the menu
I remember hiring Racer Revenge from Blockbuster. Played it for a few minutes and hated that you don’t respawn after you crash like the original and haven’t played it since.
Your content is unmatched
1:33 in-universe, podracing was indeed an intergalactic sport, the then-canon Star Wars: Republic comic portrayed Sebulba racing the Vinta Harvest Classic using his new podracer (formerly Anakin's). Then it got cracked down by the Empire following the Declaration of a New Order, but it still found a way to survive as the sport was still around by the time of the Legacy comics.
In the current canon, it got outlawed by the New Republic (less stringently as the Empire did on Legends) but still thrived on the fringe.
The Boonta Eve race also appeared in the Droids cartoon.
@@matane2465 except that it was a speeder race rather than a podrace. Nonetheless, that's where the name was borrowed from.
Gotta love those Legends comics. Also, for extra trivia, Anakin's podracer was actually seen sold to Sebulba by Qui-Gon in the Episode I Adventures comics.
The dancing jar jar in the background of that game boy music was funny
Jedi Power Battles was surprisingly difficult, reminded me of Castlevania 3 in terms of difficulty
TPM game was crazy. You could kill everybody and anybody with no ramifications. Still love it
The laser tag arcade I used to go to had a pod racer cabinet.
Was the coolest, most realistic podracing I've ever played. I want one..
I hope that the Marketing for the next Star Wars film just blows up!
It was truly a time when the relatively short development time to create a decent game opened up for a breadth of licensed games that we simply can't get these days. I wonder how many fans were created by having this variety of ways to "live the movie", even if they were not all made equal.