@@GatCat seeing certain movies should not be a prerequisite for playing and beating every N64 game. This is possibly the dumbest attempt at gatekeeping I have ever seen.
I once shattered my older brother after losing like 6 games in a row in a fighting game. I was 4 or 5, he was 9, and I swung my controller,, knocking out his tooth!
@@ninja_tony it's a joke. When someone doesn't know a huge topic in pop culture it's common to making a friendly jab. Just trying to show some appreciation for thab.
this is one of my favorite N64 games of all time. When it came out it literally blew my mind. Thank you for the video and the nostalgic feelings I got from it.
I mean, there is also the nostalgia of pre-episode 1 Star Wars as well, when the franchise was largely driven by talented novelists and graphic artists.
@@forthrightgambitia1032 I didn't like Star Wars and I was 8 at the time. I tried watching Star Wars with a friend twice as he tried making me hype for Star Wars as well, yet I feel asleep both times as a kid. Loved this game to death though. The gameplay was honestly good considering the time it was released and had plenty of great moments imo.
The sewer level scared the shit out of me the first time I played. I was walking down the hallway and then I dropped in the water and all those monsters were trying to get me. It was terrifying!
The intended way to destroy Boba Fett's ship is to shoot the back of it, you're not supposed to damage it from the front, that's why the hitboxes seemed janky
@@countchoc90 i had an easy time with the ship as a kid, i quickly figured out to just keep getting behind him and shooting. boba himself is the fight that gave me a ton of trouble.
U can say alot about this game, but back then it had an atmosphere unlike any other. The amazing soundtrack in combination with the admittedly sometimes barebones environment which gave it this liminal space quality. It gave it an uncanny vibe which really worked well with the derelict space theme. It's a true cult gem imo!
I loved this game so much as a kid. I found it in my dad’s sock drawer during the lead up to Christmas 1997 and decided to take a gamble and cut the cellophane near the box flap. I wound up beating it before Christmas playing when my parents weren’t home. When they finally wrapped it I rented the game from Blockbuster prior to Christmas so I could practice finding the challenge points. When I finally got the game officially I beat it on all difficulties with all the challenge points. Then a few years later I ended up buying the PC version so I could see the new cut scenes and did it all again.
I can't even be mad that Thab hasn't seen Star Wars, because seeing people interact with SW media without having the context of the movies to draw on is such an interesting experience.
Seriously. It's like seeing a reflection of your naive self, the version of you that was unaware of what actually happens in popular media, but still has absorbed knowledge of it through pop culture osmosis
Thank. You. So. Much. For. This. I played this game so much as a kid and loved it, totally blacked it out from my mind and as you were playing it I kept saying “dang, I think I used to play this game.” The still frame with the second boss after the train confirmed it and I had a full blown nostalgia blast. Love this series. I was a huge N64 fan and user.
For the gladiator you should be using R to aim and c buttons to move around. Most people don't know this is an option in this game, but it's how you can aim and hit small targets but also keeps you moving around to avoid getting hit too. Conkers also has this feature if you play that!
honestly dude, you are pretty good at playing games. You are cruising through some pretty difficult games that took me years to beat playing on and off lol
I loved this game. The only way I beat Boba Fett's ship was with the same cheese. I loved trying to explore and find all the secrets. The sewer level freaked me out too!
Tip: you can change the control scheme and be able to strafe when running. This makes it easier when you need to Dark Souls the bosses: face in backside, attack attack attack. Changing the camera is a useful tool at times as well. The space stages offer an in-cockpit view.
It’s mind blowing to me thinking that this came out BEFORE the 90s rereleases of the original trilogy and all of the prequels. I was probably playing Dark Forces and Tie Fighter around this time which were my Star Wars video games of choice lol
Only people who played this as children can understand the visceral fear of fighting IG88 and the giant dianoga. I remember turning my game off when I got to the sewer level because I was afraid. Lol
To this day one of my favorite games ever. I must have been 11yrs old or so, and a huge Star Wars fan. The pure joy of having a 3D Star Wars game was something special that can’t exactly be put into words.
I beat this game on Jedi. It was my greatest achievement in video games. Don’t play anymore, too addictive for me. But watching nostalgic UA-cam videos is also addictive. What a time to be alive
My older brothers and I got Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Christmas 1996 alongside Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey with the console..the latter game of which was a rental from a neighborhood video store.
This one is insanely nostalgic for me, epecially the music. I loved this game. I'm sure I would suck now, but I don't remember having that much trouble with the bosses. Who else did the wampa stompa code to play as the yeti guys?
i kicked this games ass as a kid and even played it on jedi difficulty eventually, but replaying it pretty recently i couldn't even beat it on normal. all these modern, handholdy games have softened us so we're not used to this kind of difficulty like we were back then.
I remember I got this with my N64 along with Mario 64 for Christmas the year it came out and what a joy it was. It was like a whole new world of gaming! It’s a shame people today won’t get to experience the jump forward from the previous console cycle to the N64
Yep, that leap forward into 3D gaming was astonishing at the time. I will say that the introduction of open-world gaming with stuff like Grand Theft Auto III was also astonishing at the time, but I was a little older by then (high school). Ocarina of Time felt like such a huge open world, though, at the time.
@@chambeet I totally agree! Jesus the memories with GTA 3! My best friend has ps consoles while I had Nintendo. This is awful but I remember in high school we would be drinking at his house and if we needed to leave for a party we would decide if we were ok to drive if we could drive on GTA3 without crashing or getting a cops attention. Looking back at how stupid that was we’re lucky we never got hurt, hurt someone, or got arrested
@@UnwrittenSpade I will say, that's an interesting story, haha. I wasn't drinking or using drugs back at that point, but I'm a recovering addict, so yeah, I've definitely done many things that were stupid and I regret over the years. Getting as many stars as possible was always fun in GTA 3. My friends and I put so very many hours into that game, mostly just doing dumb shit.
When I replayed some of my childhood games, such as this, I was like "How the hell did I manage to beat all these games so easily before?" lol I was rusty :o like REALLY rusty
It's a shame he never figured out that you're supposed to damage Slave 1 by shooting its engines, and that melts Boba's ship. I bought a N64 on release but didn't want Mario or Pilot Wings, so I just had a system until Christmas when I got Shadows of the Empire as my first game. IG88 and his level gave me so many problems when I first started. Became quite adept at the Hoth level!
This game could be one of the goats if it was not for some of the jankiest controls ever and so many cheap deaths. Also, you should have tinkered with the control schemes, there are ways to circle strafe in this game that help a lot with bosses and turning corners.
I remember getting this game when I was like 8 or 9 years old. It took me a LOOOOONG time to actually beat it but when I did it was one of my proudest early gaming moments. That game and Ocarina of Time, I will never forget certain moments in both of them. Beating the Sewers in this game and like beating the 3rd boss as child link in Ocarina because I knew that I could unlock adult Link, and by extension Epona. I remember being excited but then I realized I had forgotten to get Epona's song (well, not really "forgot" but I didn't know I needed it) THEN I had to beat the first temple as Adult Link to go back in time to get it. Games just had more of a sense of wonder back then.
Wow I have super vivid memories of having a hard time getting the tow cables wrapped around as a kid and calling my dad at work to tell him I finally did it by myself
This game, is the one that started it all for me, came home from school one day, with mom telling me and my brother my dad had a surprise for us at home, he had the N64 set up and was already playing Shadows of the Empire in the living room when we got home. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
Between the one-on-one AT-ST fight and the train level, this feels shockingly like a really primitive Jedi: Fallen Order in places. The parallels can't just be coincidence, considering all the things you _could_ include in a Star Wars game... It's like whoever made that game liked those sequences and said "Remember that? What if we did the same thing, but better?"
@@alexnelson8 What memes?? It's just common sense that there's a high ground advantage, that idea didn't even come from Star Wars, but people always act like it's something that only exists in George Lucas's head lol
This game is one of those fever dream games from my childhood. My cousins had it at their house and we would visit often but only play it there and not all the time as it was 1 player. I distinctly remember the Hoth speeder and base lvls, and the train lvl, the rest is real fuzzy though lol. Such nostalgia.
So when I played that game, I didn't spoke English. Imagine how long it took me to figure out that cable thing?!?! I think it took me a full day to figure it out and it was only by accident 😢😅
that mission is complete bs for completionists. as a kid i got at least most of the collectables in that stage, possibly even all of them, but trying to replay it recently i could hardly get any of them. no idea how i was able to do it as a kid but it seems nearly impossible now.
This one was super fun to play growing up in the early N64 days. The Canyon maze took forever to me back then and Xizor's Palace was also super difficult. And yes, Sewers were gross and scary.
I was never able to beat this game. Once I finally was able to get past Boba Fett and slave 1 there was the racing level that I just never got around to beat.
This was the game that sucked me into the N64. My uncle had it along with Super Mario 64, Wave Race 64, Cruis'n USA, Killer Instinct Gold, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy, but I gravitated towards this because the story was super interesting to me, I loved the music, and it felt manageable because it had a linear level structure instead of seeming like an endless open-world like Mario 64 did. I have the PC version of this on my backlog. IG-88 was the scariest thing I'd ever seen in a video game before. Gosh, experiencing the N64 when it was new was so amazing.
This game actually has a debug cheat that was revealed in an old issue of "Nintendo Power" in which you have to hold down a series of buttons on the controller, and then move the control stick halfway to the left, then right, and repeat. It basically breaks open the game and allows to you to make any alterations you want. You can get infinite ammo, permanent invincibility, change the planet's gravity, and even get the jetpack from the very first level. Makes the game incredibly fun. Also, the Swoop Bike level CAN be beaten if you treat it as a race. Yes, the game wants you to take out all of the gang members, but it is possible to beat the level by just getting to Luke first.
Boba Fett's ships hit box is the turrents and the back of the ship where the thrusters are if I remember right. Loved this game as a kid and the fight with IG-88 was the toughest part imo
I'm here two years late but man... this was one of the two games I got with the N64 on Christmas morning. It's a classic. I beat it as a kid, and I tried again last year when I found my old video game stash... couldn't beat the first AT-ST fight on foot. I'm a disgrace. Hahaha this series is awesome man, so many memories.
I remember this game as a kid, but I only remember the first stage. I feel like I must’ve never made it very far, so it was cool to see the whole game. Keep up the good work. Love the series.
Dude IG-88 (the "robot guy/boss" as you called him) took me so many tries. I was just a kid back then when I was trying to beat it. But yeah, I could do that train section blindfolded by the time I finally did beat him. The most memorable boss fight of all besides the first one where you learn you can press Z to manually aim (the AT-ST walker thing) is Boba Fett of course. THAT was one of the best boss fights on the N64 IMO.
Thank you for beating this game. When I was young I wanted to play the bike mission which was described on back side of game package, it looked like so fun, but I could not reach there and always failed to pass the Boba Fett mission. Now I know the mission I wanted to play is the next mission of the Boba Fett`s...
as someone who knows EVERYTHING about Star Wars and about Shadows of the Empire, it's interesting and refreshing to see someone play this blind. "this little robot" = IG88, etc. it's good to see if a game like this can stand up even without side knowledge.
It's irrelevant giving tips now that you completed it. I too got intimate with this game. Pretty good for 1996 N64. I was hoping to see a bit of footage from certain part but no. But yeah it was a trip to watch. I never quite finished it.
This game was one of my favorites as a kid. I loved the gorge level and actually really enjoyed the speeder bike level as well - those two are the main ones that still come to mind when thinking of it. There was also some pretty cool cheat codes, if I remember correctly, that allowed you to do all kinds of weird stuff, like controlling some of the enemies. I wish I had an easy way to play it again.
Back in the day there was the infamous n64 gold club. Open to those who had 100% completed around 20 games. You had to send in your video tapes to prove you have done it.
awesome! I played this as a rental/used game a lot a few months after it came out. Fond memories but also frustrating, since I was too young to make a real dent. With this video (and series), i don’t have to go back and play it again!
For the speeder bikes, slower is better, they all stay slow if you're slow. And if you pick the easiest difficulty you don't even get the final level, like Castlevania. Yet compared to Superman, still fun!
One of my strongest childhood memory of this game was that of disappointment for not being able to play as Luke. We had never heard of this Dash guy and we were kinda pissed about that.
can you imagine? i see the first three movies multiple times, i don't remember about hoth either, i guess it is not so importantant to remember every single event or name. yes they were funny movies but that's it.
It's funny watching you fight the gladiator and then finding put you can just run around him in phase 1...I did the same thing when I was a kid lmao. That robot was so annoying to beat. Great job!
2:42 the hoth level I can pick up and ace to this day. Frustrating af initially, but the motion necessary to trip the walker eventually gets internalized, forever. Unless you are not playing on an N64 controller, that might throw me lol
This is one of the best series any gaming youtuber is putting out right now.
Thank you!
Not if dude hasn’t seen Star Wars or Indiana Jones. Not cool.
@@GatCat Star Wars is overrated but I agree about Indiana jones
Agreed!
@@GatCat seeing certain movies should not be a prerequisite for playing and beating every N64 game. This is possibly the dumbest attempt at gatekeeping I have ever seen.
"it sucks when your enemy has the high ground" -Thab & Anakin
I love how he got the genuine Shadows of the Empire experience we all got as kids. Only he didn't shatter his controller or a sibling in anger.
Whoa whoa whoa we weren't all kids. Slow down.
Whoa whoa whoa....we don't all have siblings.
Whoa whoa whoa!
Whoa whoa whoa we weren't all alive, slow down there
I once shattered my older brother after losing like 6 games in a row in a fighting game. I was 4 or 5, he was 9, and I swung my controller,, knocking out his tooth!
“Battle of Hoth, where ever that is…..”
You’re killing me smalls!
I wouldn't let many slide for not knowing star wars but thab is an awesome dude. This series is great 👍
Yeah, everyone knows it's the second star to the right, straight on til morning!
@@spoonMANfork It's ok for people to not like things just because you do.
@@ninja_tony it's a joke. When someone doesn't know a huge topic in pop culture it's common to making a friendly jab. Just trying to show some appreciation for thab.
Would love if he responded with "I've never seen The Sandlot" haha
this is one of my favorite N64 games of all time. When it came out it literally blew my mind. Thank you for the video and the nostalgic feelings I got from it.
same man, loved seeing this one. Really enjoyed it as a kid, the last stage was fantastic
me too. i never understood why it got so much hate. i spent more time playing this than zelda, mario, or any of the other big name n64 games.
I mean, there is also the nostalgia of pre-episode 1 Star Wars as well, when the franchise was largely driven by talented novelists and graphic artists.
@@forthrightgambitia1032 I didn't like Star Wars and I was 8 at the time. I tried watching Star Wars with a friend twice as he tried making me hype for Star Wars as well, yet I feel asleep both times as a kid. Loved this game to death though. The gameplay was honestly good considering the time it was released and had plenty of great moments imo.
@@T3n50r , same deal with me. I've never been into Star Wars, but I really liked this game.
The sewer level scared the shit out of me the first time I played. I was walking down the hallway and then I dropped in the water and all those monsters were trying to get me. It was terrifying!
I found the boss after the trainride frightening as a kid.
Haha same
Not to mention it was dark as hell. Playing it on an old TV was a nightmare.
I don’t think that’s the original Wilhelm Scream, it’s probably a recreation.
That or it's so over-compressed it's unrecognizable. I agree that something sounds distinctly off about it though.
The intended way to destroy Boba Fett's ship is to shoot the back of it, you're not supposed to damage it from the front, that's why the hitboxes seemed janky
took me forever to figure that out when I played as a kid. Hardest boss fight ever
@@countchoc90 i had an easy time with the ship as a kid, i quickly figured out to just keep getting behind him and shooting. boba himself is the fight that gave me a ton of trouble.
I remember beating it as a kid in exactly the same way as he showed here. I never figured out the back part, haha.
U can say alot about this game, but back then it had an atmosphere unlike any other. The amazing soundtrack in combination with the admittedly sometimes barebones environment which gave it this liminal space quality. It gave it an uncanny vibe which really worked well with the derelict space theme. It's a true cult gem imo!
Damn good description
I loved this game so much as a kid. I found it in my dad’s sock drawer during the lead up to Christmas 1997 and decided to take a gamble and cut the cellophane near the box flap. I wound up beating it before Christmas playing when my parents weren’t home.
When they finally wrapped it I rented the game from Blockbuster prior to Christmas so I could practice finding the challenge points.
When I finally got the game officially I beat it on all difficulties with all the challenge points. Then a few years later I ended up buying the PC version so I could see the new cut scenes and did it all again.
*I was in middle school when this came out. Middle school was troubling times, so this game was a wonderful escape. Great video, man!*
I can't even be mad that Thab hasn't seen Star Wars, because seeing people interact with SW media without having the context of the movies to draw on is such an interesting experience.
Seriously. It's like seeing a reflection of your naive self, the version of you that was unaware of what actually happens in popular media, but still has absorbed knowledge of it through pop culture osmosis
Switching to 1st person helped a lot in the shooting levels. And also the swoop bike level.
That fucking speeder bike ring jump thing gave me PTSD flashbacks.
Every so often I subscribe pretty much in an instant. No screaming, no cliché UA-camr nonsense. Just simple narrative and gameplay. Good stuff.
I played this game a lot when I was a kid, it was tough but I enjoyed the atmosphere, music and the feeling of overcoming a tough boss. Great video!
Thank. You. So. Much. For. This. I played this game so much as a kid and loved it, totally blacked it out from my mind and as you were playing it I kept saying “dang, I think I used to play this game.” The still frame with the second boss after the train confirmed it and I had a full blown nostalgia blast. Love this series. I was a huge N64 fan and user.
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That stupid crack in the floor made me die sooooooo many times back in the day.
An absolutely iconic N64 entry. One of my faves. The baster fire was so satisfying lol
For the gladiator you should be using R to aim and c buttons to move around.
Most people don't know this is an option in this game, but it's how you can aim and hit small targets but also keeps you moving around to avoid getting hit too. Conkers also has this feature if you play that!
honestly dude, you are pretty good at playing games. You are cruising through some pretty difficult games that took me years to beat playing on and off lol
I loved this game. The only way I beat Boba Fett's ship was with the same cheese. I loved trying to explore and find all the secrets. The sewer level freaked me out too!
Tip: you can change the control scheme and be able to strafe when running. This makes it easier when you need to Dark Souls the bosses: face in backside, attack attack attack.
Changing the camera is a useful tool at times as well. The space stages offer an in-cockpit view.
It’s mind blowing to me thinking that this came out BEFORE the 90s rereleases of the original trilogy and all of the prequels. I was probably playing Dark Forces and Tie Fighter around this time which were my Star Wars video games of choice lol
Oh man Tie Fighter!! That game was so good! That was how I knew Palpatine was Sideous when Episode 1 came out and many others did not 😁
Only people who played this as children can understand the visceral fear of fighting IG88 and the giant dianoga. I remember turning my game off when I got to the sewer level because I was afraid. Lol
To this day one of my favorite games ever. I must have been 11yrs old or so, and a huge Star Wars fan. The pure joy of having a 3D Star Wars game was something special that can’t exactly be put into words.
I remember this game being insane on the hardest difficulty. Also, this game had tons of cheat codes which were very cool.
Yes! I think playing as a wampa was one?!
I beat this game on Jedi. It was my greatest achievement in video games. Don’t play anymore, too addictive for me. But watching nostalgic UA-cam videos is also addictive. What a time to be alive
Love this series. And Shadows of the Empire was my first N64 game!
My older brothers and I got Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Christmas 1996 alongside Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey with the console..the latter game of which was a rental from a neighborhood video store.
Droid solders... do we tell him they were humans? If only thab had learned the strafe button the game would have done a lot better lol
"Laser gun"
Love the series dude. N64 was my first console as a kid. Crazy to see all these games I have never played, or heard of. XD Good luck sir.
I'm not sure if "they have the high ground" was a joke or not. Your deadpan delivery is spot on thab. 👍
As a little kid I just did the first mission over and over. I loved flying around. Now I fly fpv drones for fun so hey, some thing never change.
Only Star Wars game I had on N64 was Pod Racer, but I remember playing that game so much, it was great.
It's Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer
@@KillTheLamb1 Yeah, that one
"apparently theres a battle at hoth, wherever the hell that is..." lmao as a SW fan i died there already ^^
This one is insanely nostalgic for me, epecially the music. I loved this game. I'm sure I would suck now, but I don't remember having that much trouble with the bosses.
Who else did the wampa stompa code to play as the yeti guys?
i kicked this games ass as a kid and even played it on jedi difficulty eventually, but replaying it pretty recently i couldn't even beat it on normal. all these modern, handholdy games have softened us so we're not used to this kind of difficulty like we were back then.
Modern games are too easy nowadays
It’s nice to see the latter levels of this game. I don’t think I ever got beyond the train as a kid. I got to know the first 3 levels very well.
I remember I got this with my N64 along with Mario 64 for Christmas the year it came out and what a joy it was. It was like a whole new world of gaming! It’s a shame people today won’t get to experience the jump forward from the previous console cycle to the N64
Yep, that leap forward into 3D gaming was astonishing at the time. I will say that the introduction of open-world gaming with stuff like Grand Theft Auto III was also astonishing at the time, but I was a little older by then (high school). Ocarina of Time felt like such a huge open world, though, at the time.
Yeah Super Mario 64 blew my mind as a kid, especially since I didn't own a SNES and went straight from NES to N64.
@@chambeet I totally agree! Jesus the memories with GTA 3! My best friend has ps consoles while I had Nintendo. This is awful but I remember in high school we would be drinking at his house and if we needed to leave for a party we would decide if we were ok to drive if we could drive on GTA3 without crashing or getting a cops attention. Looking back at how stupid that was we’re lucky we never got hurt, hurt someone, or got arrested
@@Tomn8er haha me too! I didn’t have a SNES, went from NES to N64. What a jump it was!
@@UnwrittenSpade I will say, that's an interesting story, haha. I wasn't drinking or using drugs back at that point, but I'm a recovering addict, so yeah, I've definitely done many things that were stupid and I regret over the years.
Getting as many stars as possible was always fun in GTA 3. My friends and I put so very many hours into that game, mostly just doing dumb shit.
When I replayed some of my childhood games, such as this, I was like "How the hell did I manage to beat all these games so easily before?" lol I was rusty :o like REALLY rusty
It's a shame he never figured out that you're supposed to damage Slave 1 by shooting its engines, and that melts Boba's ship.
I bought a N64 on release but didn't want Mario or Pilot Wings, so I just had a system until Christmas when I got Shadows of the Empire as my first game. IG88 and his level gave me so many problems when I first started. Became quite adept at the Hoth level!
This game could be one of the goats if it was not for some of the jankiest controls ever and so many cheap deaths.
Also, you should have tinkered with the control schemes, there are ways to circle strafe in this game that help a lot with bosses and turning corners.
I remember getting this game when I was like 8 or 9 years old. It took me a LOOOOONG time to actually beat it but when I did it was one of my proudest early gaming moments. That game and Ocarina of Time, I will never forget certain moments in both of them. Beating the Sewers in this game and like beating the 3rd boss as child link in Ocarina because I knew that I could unlock adult Link, and by extension Epona. I remember being excited but then I realized I had forgotten to get Epona's song (well, not really "forgot" but I didn't know I needed it) THEN I had to beat the first temple as Adult Link to go back in time to get it. Games just had more of a sense of wonder back then.
I just hard binged this whole series... Now I have to be patient 😭😭
I like this guy because he looks like everyone’s idea of a gamer and he is totally invested in winning good games and crap ones no matter what.
Wow I have super vivid memories of having a hard time getting the tow cables wrapped around as a kid and calling my dad at work to tell him I finally did it by myself
This game, is the one that started it all for me, came home from school one day, with mom telling me and my brother my dad had a surprise for us at home, he had the N64 set up and was already playing Shadows of the Empire in the living room when we got home. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
Between the one-on-one AT-ST fight and the train level, this feels shockingly like a really primitive Jedi: Fallen Order in places. The parallels can't just be coincidence, considering all the things you _could_ include in a Star Wars game... It's like whoever made that game liked those sequences and said "Remember that? What if we did the same thing, but better?"
He keeps talking about the high ground advantage but he has never watched the movies and has no idea haha
He has must of seen the memes?
@@alexnelson8 What memes?? It's just common sense that there's a high ground advantage, that idea didn't even come from Star Wars, but people always act like it's something that only exists in George Lucas's head lol
@@ninja_tony but it’s a Star Wars game
I came to the comments to see if anyone else brought this up lol
Wow until I watched this I remembered not beating this game but apparently it’s way shorter than I remembered so I guess I did beat it. Good memories
This game is one of those fever dream games from my childhood. My cousins had it at their house and we would visit often but only play it there and not all the time as it was 1 player. I distinctly remember the Hoth speeder and base lvls, and the train lvl, the rest is real fuzzy though lol. Such nostalgia.
So when I played that game, I didn't spoke English.
Imagine how long it took me to figure out that cable thing?!?!
I think it took me a full day to figure it out and it was only by accident 😢😅
This was one of the few games as a kid that I could beat on the hardest difficulty. I swear jedi was easier than very hard.
Oh god, I remember this game. I never tried to play it without cheats because it was way too difficult and unfair.
The swoop bike is so difficult. Especially if you want to 100% the game and get the secret rabit ears medallion.
that mission is complete bs for completionists. as a kid i got at least most of the collectables in that stage, possibly even all of them, but trying to replay it recently i could hardly get any of them. no idea how i was able to do it as a kid but it seems nearly impossible now.
This one was super fun to play growing up in the early N64 days. The Canyon maze took forever to me back then and Xizor's Palace was also super difficult. And yes, Sewers were gross and scary.
I was never able to beat this game.
Once I finally was able to get past Boba Fett and slave 1 there was the racing level that I just never got around to beat.
this is such a sick series. Really hope you stick it out!
This game was amazing, the implementation of gameplay changing around the lightweight story gave it some decent replay value
sounds a little off from a Wilhelm Scream
This was the game that sucked me into the N64. My uncle had it along with Super Mario 64, Wave Race 64, Cruis'n USA, Killer Instinct Gold, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy, but I gravitated towards this because the story was super interesting to me, I loved the music, and it felt manageable because it had a linear level structure instead of seeming like an endless open-world like Mario 64 did. I have the PC version of this on my backlog. IG-88 was the scariest thing I'd ever seen in a video game before. Gosh, experiencing the N64 when it was new was so amazing.
I was never really a huge Star Wars fan, but this was my first N64 game and I really loved it. Please come to NS0
This game actually has a debug cheat that was revealed in an old issue of "Nintendo Power" in which you have to hold down a series of buttons on the controller, and then move the control stick halfway to the left, then right, and repeat. It basically breaks open the game and allows to you to make any alterations you want. You can get infinite ammo, permanent invincibility, change the planet's gravity, and even get the jetpack from the very first level. Makes the game incredibly fun.
Also, the Swoop Bike level CAN be beaten if you treat it as a race. Yes, the game wants you to take out all of the gang members, but it is possible to beat the level by just getting to Luke first.
Boba Fett's ships hit box is the turrents and the back of the ship where the thrusters are if I remember right. Loved this game as a kid and the fight with IG-88 was the toughest part imo
I'm here two years late but man... this was one of the two games I got with the N64 on Christmas morning. It's a classic. I beat it as a kid, and I tried again last year when I found my old video game stash... couldn't beat the first AT-ST fight on foot. I'm a disgrace. Hahaha this series is awesome man, so many memories.
This is the beat part of my Friday morning
This is one of my fav Star wars games, the music in Xizor's palace is goated
IT'S OVER, THAB. I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND.
I love this channel. Great nostalgia and much fun to see you discover all these games for the first time.
I like how chat was all GG too early on the bike mission. And that one guy made a joke about the Gladiator having a phase 3, only to see it come true!
It's kinda funny you went through the whole game not realizing you could go into first person.
I remember this game as a kid, but I only remember the first stage. I feel like I must’ve never made it very far, so it was cool to see the whole game. Keep up the good work. Love the series.
Dude IG-88 (the "robot guy/boss" as you called him) took me so many tries. I was just a kid back then when I was trying to beat it. But yeah, I could do that train section blindfolded by the time I finally did beat him. The most memorable boss fight of all besides the first one where you learn you can press Z to manually aim (the AT-ST walker thing) is Boba Fett of course. THAT was one of the best boss fights on the N64 IMO.
19:33. Seeing that head by itself made me laugh. Though I was really hoping you would keep in the "This is stupid! What is this boss?!", line.
This was the hardest game I remember playing as a kid. Can't believe you beat it!
Thank you for beating this game. When I was young I wanted to play the bike mission which was described on back side of game package, it looked like so fun, but I could not reach there and always failed to pass the Boba Fett mission. Now I know the mission I wanted to play is the next mission of the Boba Fett`s...
When I was a kid, the sound that IG 88 makes when you fight him used to scare me. I was legitimately, afraid the whole time I was fighting him.
That's not the Wilhelm Scream
Freaking loved this game. The final level has cheat codes to change you ship! And it wasn't just cosmetic, they flew and fired differently. Loved it
as someone who knows EVERYTHING about Star Wars and about Shadows of the Empire, it's interesting and refreshing to see someone play this blind. "this little robot" = IG88, etc. it's good to see if a game like this can stand up even without side knowledge.
Of all the Star Wars universe N64 games the best was Rogue Squadron...
Music was amazing in this game
One of the best games on the 64. Wish they would make a good Star Wars movie about this story.
It's irrelevant giving tips now that you completed it. I too got intimate with this game. Pretty good for 1996 N64. I was hoping to see a bit of footage from certain part but no. But yeah it was a trip to watch. I never quite finished it.
He has the vod up of his entire playthrough
@@SocialCreditScore Cool, thanks for the heads up!
This game was one of my favorites as a kid. I loved the gorge level and actually really enjoyed the speeder bike level as well - those two are the main ones that still come to mind when thinking of it. There was also some pretty cool cheat codes, if I remember correctly, that allowed you to do all kinds of weird stuff, like controlling some of the enemies. I wish I had an easy way to play it again.
Back in the day there was the infamous n64 gold club. Open to those who had 100% completed around 20 games. You had to send in your video tapes to prove you have done it.
The bike mission was one of my favorite missions. I'll replay it so much along with the ending ship ones.
awesome! I played this as a rental/used game a lot a few months after it came out. Fond memories but also frustrating, since I was too young to make a real dent. With this video (and series), i don’t have to go back and play it again!
For the speeder bikes, slower is better, they all stay slow if you're slow. And if you pick the easiest difficulty you don't even get the final level, like Castlevania. Yet compared to Superman, still fun!
One of my strongest childhood memory of this game was that of disappointment for not being able to play as Luke. We had never heard of this Dash guy and we were kinda pissed about that.
I don't think that's the Wilhelm scream.
I thought I could handle Thab not seeing any Star Wars movies but then he says he doesn't know Hoth and I lost my mind.
And Robots, not droids.
can you imagine? i see the first three movies multiple times, i don't remember about hoth either, i guess it is not so importantant to remember every single event or name. yes they were funny movies but that's it.
For real dude, you having watched South Park, Indy, Star Wars, god knows what else. Mad like, how rare
It's funny watching you fight the gladiator and then finding put you can just run around him in phase 1...I did the same thing when I was a kid lmao. That robot was so annoying to beat. Great job!
"Depending on how you approach it you die"
ThaB *flies in the middle of the group of enemies n dies*
That's not a Wilhelm scream, but it's close
This brought me back to watching my older brother beat this game. I was waiting for this one. Thanks, dude!
omg i remember putting hours into this when i was a kid....hated it and loved it!
2:42 the hoth level I can pick up and ace to this day. Frustrating af initially, but the motion necessary to trip the walker eventually gets internalized, forever.
Unless you are not playing on an N64 controller, that might throw me lol
Great game, holds up pretty well in my opinion just recently beat it for the first time (never beat it as a kid)
I remember that the 4th difficulty level was easier than the 3rd difficulty level. This game was so awesome.