8:12 A key note here is that Pit Droids do *not* up repair speed in a race. The "repair" parts do that (the ones at the end of Watto's shop lineup). All parts have a durability system, with durability dropping with taking crashes or scrapes. Pit Droids repair part damage after a race, with multiple parts repaired per your count of Pit Droids.
Fun fact: in the film the music doesn’t kick in until the final lap, which could account for that decision in the game. Thanks for another solid review of a great game!
You’re not wrong. I got this for the N64 and I swear it was called Pod Racer. I know I have to be wrong but I would have bet money on that being the title. Thanks for the video!
I kinda thought that, but then realised I've never seen the word "pod" in that golden font on the cover, but I've definitely seen all the other words in the title many times
sebulba also had his secret flamethrower as a wpn in this game Neva Kee was my fav podracer. its the unique podracer that is like 1 solid ship with engines in the back. its easily the fastest out of all the podracers. but very frail...
"They come here. How do they find me? They come here, mess up my store. Yhiee!" "It's a new lap record!" Times were better back then. I missed the 90's.
Pit droids did not speed up the repair during races, they fixed the parts you've damaged during races while you were in, surprisingly, the pit between the races. Also you could simply exploit this mechanic by going to Watto's second hand parts store. There, you could buy damaged parts for cheaper and since the performance of a part scaled with how much damage it had, sometimes this would mean having a downgrade in performance for the next race. However, spend the rest of your winnings on a couple of pit droids and all the parts would've been repaired for the race after that and you'd be leaving everyone in dust. Keep in mind that at Watto's shop, you would have access to the top tier performance parts that you haven't yet unlocked in the regular store. The game had some other rather obscure mechanics as well, for example if you wanted to stay on boost for longer, you'd have to upgrade the cooling related parts.
the hardest part is you have to go all in on the race bets so you can afford upgrades before the next race. not only that, but between races your parts degrade based on how many times you exploded in the last race, and only get repaired (incrementally) when you win a race
ya this does mean you CAN get a complete game over by having all your available pod races be at minimum stat lines for each one. I found that you can dig your way out of this by going back and winning races you know you CAN win to build up money to progress. Meaning that sometimes you will need to "farm" prior tracks to move on. The game is quite difficult but its the GOOD kind of difficult that isn't punishing and pushes you to overcome the challenge. Played the shit out of this game on the old family computer back in the day.
@@anthonyonfire I had the PC version, I dunno if I farmed a race or just repeatedly had to re-do one over and over again till I finally won to move on. Because the steam version is the same way, once you win, you win and can't go back. I just remember having to race the same damn track over and over again with different racers till I found one that worked and won.
I remember learning that maxing out turning/handling was the key to winning races, not speed. Anikins racer was well balanced vs the others, but one of them (the green one with V shaped pods) had the best handling from the start and I won a lot of races with him. Since NOT slamming into walls meant you stayed at top speed longer, better, and then boosting in key locations kept you head of everyone else. The less time you spent blow up the more you would win, and this was important later on in the series and maps. Going back and "farming" prior tracks you knew how to win also helped progress in getting better parts.
Loved this game and something like this is missing from my life but there were some difficult obstacles on some tracks that honestly left me guessing what the devs were thinking. Could use a Remaster, with even going as far as venturing into Remake territory with streamlining some maps to iron out the illogical difficulty spikes. If disney would finally starve under a bridge, a normal studio could also eventually release some fun Original Trilogy RACER with Imperial & Remnant, Rebel & New Republic, Mando, Pirate, Hutt and other Crime Syndicate (like Black Sun), and further civilian designed pods (like Corellian, Bespin, Trandoshan, even Kashyyyk designs). Maybe they could leave Tatooine out! Would love to see: Utapau, Dromund Kaas, Devaron, Rhen Var, Vjun, Sullust/Sarapin/TaspirIII, Felucia, Balmorra, Ord Mantell, Raxus Prime or Lotho Minor, Nar Shaddaa, Kessel, The Jade Moon, Katraasii, Bogden, possibly even Chandrila and Sulon. All selected on a galactic map!! I've obviously left out many which are by now too overused or boring. The game should also distance itself from the prequels to have its own identity, with a few exceptions I made. (Utapau, Devaron, Felucia, Lotho Minor.)
Well the reason you feel Mandela'd is because all the time through all the iterations, it's called pod-racing, the vehicles are called pod-racers and the drivers are called pod-racer pilots. Pod-racer, pod-racing, etc. That gets ingrained into your brain and so when you think about the game, your brain instantly connects pod-racing to it and overwrites the actual title. Happened to most people, myself included.
you do your videos like you are hanging out with friends, and it works man, please keep it up because I think you have a lot in common with all the rest of us 30 somethings!
it's just cool to hear someone say and feel the same way about a lot of these games (especially the Star Wars content) it's like "making friends" through the internet; between the gym, being a husband, dad life, and serving in and out of our church it just doesn't leave much time for purely social interactions haha@@evprince
i bought the game back then 2000 when i was 12 years old and loved it last year i replayed it on the switch and still love it the track difficulty requires your to be in tune with the force in order to play it
Hours on this one, N64 on a crappy crt with Composit output 😂, was thrilled to learn that the new pc my folks bought at the time had enough juice to run the PC version! That was so much fun! Such a better game on PC! 😊 Really good work my friend, masterful video content and for only starting a year ago! Well done! Keep it up!
TBH I might be the only person, but it would have been cool to have a young anakin TV show inbetween the phantom menace and attack of the clones with jake lloyd and ewan mcgreggor. Maybe we could have seen hm do couple more pod races, and towards the end maybe they could do a time skip where anakin is a bit older but before AOTC to see some of the adventures he might have had with Obi Wan.
I was just looking for a Star Wars Pod Racer for n64 retrospective. The name threw me off. I thought maybe Star Wars Racer was, like, a remaster or re-release or something. Weird.
Funny enough, I just beat this game without figuring out how to boost, I would have looked it up but I did it in one sitting, definitely not as hard as I remember, but is it ever fun.
Don't know if you know this, but this game has a cheat that lets you use twin stick controls with two controllers similar to how Anakin pilots his pod in the movie.
Didn’t get very far. Forgot the level where I quit, but the difficulty spike was far too high and I just kept falling into the abyss. I like the game overall but it was waaay too unfair.
I got this game after playing the hell out of Rouge Squadron. My brother got Majoras Mask and i was hella jealous. I remember on one mission one of your wingmen breaks off and goes "my family could be in that camp" then proceeds to alert the whole base. I should have shot him down myself.
I've been saying "ITS A NEW LAP RECORD" since I was a kid
8:12
A key note here is that Pit Droids do *not* up repair speed in a race. The "repair" parts do that (the ones at the end of Watto's shop lineup). All parts have a durability system, with durability dropping with taking crashes or scrapes. Pit Droids repair part damage after a race, with multiple parts repaired per your count of Pit Droids.
Fun fact: in the film the music doesn’t kick in until the final lap, which could account for that decision in the game. Thanks for another solid review of a great game!
One of my all time favorites. A total classic that holds up well to this day.
Man, SW:EU games were my jam growing up. I'm enjoying this videos you're making on them!
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I rewound 5:29 several times. Truth never sounded so good!
Free Mode is important because money is finite in the Tournament Mode, and your ship deteriorates over time if you don’t drive perfectly.
You’re not wrong. I got this for the N64 and I swear it was called Pod Racer. I know I have to be wrong but I would have bet money on that being the title. Thanks for the video!
I kinda thought that, but then realised I've never seen the word "pod" in that golden font on the cover, but I've definitely seen all the other words in the title many times
sebulba also had his secret flamethrower as a wpn in this game
Neva Kee was my fav podracer. its the unique podracer that is like 1 solid ship with engines in the back. its easily the fastest out of all the podracers. but very frail...
Man this game is such a classic, I loved playing this as a kid. Great review
I had Racer Revenge for PS2. Played that to death
"They come here. How do they find me? They come here, mess up my store. Yhiee!"
"It's a new lap record!" Times were better back then. I missed the 90's.
Pit droids did not speed up the repair during races, they fixed the parts you've damaged during races while you were in, surprisingly, the pit between the races.
Also you could simply exploit this mechanic by going to Watto's second hand parts store. There, you could buy damaged parts for cheaper and since the performance of a part scaled with how much damage it had, sometimes this would mean having a downgrade in performance for the next race. However, spend the rest of your winnings on a couple of pit droids and all the parts would've been repaired for the race after that and you'd be leaving everyone in dust. Keep in mind that at Watto's shop, you would have access to the top tier performance parts that you haven't yet unlocked in the regular store.
The game had some other rather obscure mechanics as well, for example if you wanted to stay on boost for longer, you'd have to upgrade the cooling related parts.
Found your video on my homepage :D
the hardest part is you have to go all in on the race bets so you can afford upgrades before the next race. not only that, but between races your parts degrade based on how many times you exploded in the last race, and only get repaired (incrementally) when you win a race
ya this does mean you CAN get a complete game over by having all your available pod races be at minimum stat lines for each one. I found that you can dig your way out of this by going back and winning races you know you CAN win to build up money to progress. Meaning that sometimes you will need to "farm" prior tracks to move on. The game is quite difficult but its the GOOD kind of difficult that isn't punishing and pushes you to overcome the challenge. Played the shit out of this game on the old family computer back in the day.
@@SirLANsalot in the n64 version u cant farm, once u win money u can't win more from the same track
@@anthonyonfire I had the PC version, I dunno if I farmed a race or just repeatedly had to re-do one over and over again till I finally won to move on. Because the steam version is the same way, once you win, you win and can't go back. I just remember having to race the same damn track over and over again with different racers till I found one that worked and won.
Was such a great game. It was my childhood.
Replaying this on the playstation store earlier this year and damn i either forgot how hard this was, or as i was a much better gamer as a kid
Yeah it was brutal for me man
I remember learning that maxing out turning/handling was the key to winning races, not speed. Anikins racer was well balanced vs the others, but one of them (the green one with V shaped pods) had the best handling from the start and I won a lot of races with him. Since NOT slamming into walls meant you stayed at top speed longer, better, and then boosting in key locations kept you head of everyone else. The less time you spent blow up the more you would win, and this was important later on in the series and maps. Going back and "farming" prior tracks you knew how to win also helped progress in getting better parts.
Yeah I was good at this game when I was 9 and now I fucking suck
Loved this game and something like this is missing from my life but there were some difficult obstacles on some tracks that honestly left me guessing what the devs were thinking. Could use a Remaster, with even going as far as venturing into Remake territory with streamlining some maps to iron out the illogical difficulty spikes.
If disney would finally starve under a bridge, a normal studio could also eventually release some fun Original Trilogy RACER with Imperial & Remnant, Rebel & New Republic, Mando, Pirate, Hutt and other Crime Syndicate (like Black Sun), and further civilian designed pods (like Corellian, Bespin, Trandoshan, even Kashyyyk designs). Maybe they could leave Tatooine out!
Would love to see:
Utapau, Dromund Kaas, Devaron, Rhen Var, Vjun, Sullust/Sarapin/TaspirIII, Felucia, Balmorra, Ord Mantell, Raxus Prime or Lotho Minor, Nar Shaddaa, Kessel, The Jade Moon, Katraasii, Bogden, possibly even Chandrila and Sulon. All selected on a galactic map!!
I've obviously left out many which are by now too overused or boring. The game should also distance itself from the prequels to have its own identity, with a few exceptions I made. (Utapau, Devaron, Felucia, Lotho Minor.)
Well the reason you feel Mandela'd is because all the time through all the iterations, it's called pod-racing, the vehicles are called pod-racers and the drivers are called pod-racer pilots. Pod-racer, pod-racing, etc. That gets ingrained into your brain and so when you think about the game, your brain instantly connects pod-racing to it and overwrites the actual title. Happened to most people, myself included.
you do your videos like you are hanging out with friends, and it works man, please keep it up because I think you have a lot in common with all the rest of us 30 somethings!
Well, when we all get snubbed by the owners of these properties, what else can we do but reminisce together?
it's just cool to hear someone say and feel the same way about a lot of these games (especially the Star Wars content) it's like "making friends" through the internet; between the gym, being a husband, dad life, and serving in and out of our church it just doesn't leave much time for purely social interactions haha@@evprince
@@Silem2006 We are int he same boat in all of that brother!
a blessing to hear! keep it up brother and looking forward to more!@@evprince
Put alot of time into this game as a kid. Gasganos was my go-to.
i bought the game back then 2000 when i was 12 years old and loved it
last year i replayed it on the switch and still love it
the track difficulty requires your to be in tune with the force in order to play it
I had this game on my N64 and I now have it again on my Steam account, and I got my X52 HOTAS to work with it.
I played a one level demo on PS1. Was bummed the full version never made it to the shops.
Interesting. I seem to remember that on the PC version the music played right from the beginning of the race.
Hours on this one, N64 on a crappy crt with Composit output 😂, was thrilled to learn that the new pc my folks bought at the time had enough juice to run the PC version! That was so much fun! Such a better game on PC! 😊
Really good work my friend, masterful video content and for only starting a year ago! Well done! Keep it up!
Great review, very professional 👍
Play that game to this day they have both on Switch and PS5 (for real) and they are amazing af and best Star wars racing game ever
Same bro all my friends called it Podracer back in the day
Every time you watch a star wars video on this channel and see that clip of the little racing alien from Ep1 crash and scream....you drink!
TBH I might be the only person, but it would have been cool to have a young anakin TV show inbetween the phantom menace and attack of the clones with jake lloyd and ewan mcgreggor. Maybe we could have seen hm do couple more pod races, and towards the end maybe they could do a time skip where anakin is a bit older but before AOTC to see some of the adventures he might have had with Obi Wan.
I was just looking for a Star Wars Pod Racer for n64 retrospective. The name threw me off. I thought maybe Star Wars Racer was, like, a remaster or re-release or something. Weird.
The Arcade version was awesome with the control handles making the game so responsive.
Funny enough, I just beat this game without figuring out how to boost, I would have looked it up but I did it in one sitting, definitely not as hard as I remember, but is it ever fun.
what's the metal music at the very beginning of video?! made me subscribe on that moment
Don't know if you know this, but this game has a cheat that lets you use twin stick controls with two controllers similar to how Anakin pilots his pod in the movie.
Just got the game on Xbox one I can hear the music but can't hear the engines sound or voices
Didn’t get very far. Forgot the level where I quit, but the difficulty spike was far too high and I just kept falling into the abyss. I like the game overall but it was waaay too unfair.
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I got this game after playing the hell out of Rouge Squadron. My brother got Majoras Mask and i was hella jealous. I remember on one mission one of your wingmen breaks off and goes "my family could be in that camp" then proceeds to alert the whole base. I should have shot him down myself.
Am I crazy? But I’m pretty sure I played this on the PS1
Wait... you could destroy your pod-racer?
huh...
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