This Star Wars game got it so right

[@Bombastic]

What was the first Star Wars game you ever played?

[@jamestsamaidis845]

Lego Star Wars the complete saga

[@renderproductions1032]

Star Wars battlefront 2 (original.)

[@christopherstansbury3719]

Bombastic LEGO Star Wars tcs

[@jacobkirby3526]

Star Wars battlefront 2 2005 Still my favorite battlefront game

[@haydentroyer8322]

Bombastic Star Wars battlefront the very first one.

[@general_pigface7203]

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga was my first Star Wars game. I remember failing over and over in the Mustafar level lol

[@lamasu8060]

Yeah lol memories

[@tomshields5210]

DUUUUUDE SAME

[@Caleb-jq5mj]

I played this game before I even watched Star Wars so that was my intro to the story 😂

[@santiagobrizuela2177]

General_PiggyFace same👍

[@mojodawg7046]

Same

[@SuhaylKhatib]

When I die, I’m gonna hear “it’s a new lap record!” That’s how much I played this game. Hell, I still can’t beat my lap times from when I was a kid on my N64.

[@tinpan6052]

NOW THIS IS PODRACI-Oh, it actually IS podracing. _ .

[@digitalnative5678]

Huh, fancy that.

[@karenvasquez-mcdaniel328]

Bruh

[@dragonslayer3631]

I remember this because every time I won, the game crashed

[@Kiosk.1]

Dragon Slayer9910 so sad

[@TemporaryGames]

Oof bro

[@masterchef9023]

the game doesnt like you winning ITS JELOUS

[@masterchef9023]

what ever i dont care if i spelled it wrong

[@GGA007Gaming]

@@masterchef9023 there ya go that's the way just forget about it and move on. Your not a horrible person cause you misspelled it. The people who freak out over that shit have no real worries in life and pay to much attention to pointless shit. Live your life and let it out man. It's the start of the healing process to just be the best you you can be.

[@ASCARNAZ]

Vehicle upgrades is to see what you have on your pod racer and in what condition they're in, Buy parts is to buy brand-new parts with no damage, but you need to get to the highr tier tournaments to unlock better parts, the Junkyard is to buy damaged parts at a huge discount and you can find higher tier pieces at early play time

[@lachlanlawrence8822]

Last time I was this early I still had the high ground

[@bromodragone8405]

Before becoming a racer, Ebe Endocott worked as a mailman Aldar Beedo actually worked as an assassin and was hired by fellow racer Wan Sandage to kill Sebulba. Elan Mak entered the Boonta Eve Classic to kill Aldar Beedo for killing his father. Ratts Tyerell was the only fatality of the Boonta Eve Classic.

[@redshirt49]

Heh, my first SW game was Dark Forces 2. Still play the old gems frequently, just finished Racer again a few weeks ago. Since I've seen no one else explain the shops here's how it works: Watto's shop will have the parts at a higher price point but in perfect durability and thus better stats. The stats of a part drop like a stone once its durability goes down. The junkyard sells parts at cheap prices but with random durability values and worse stats. Thing is, that's what the pit droids are for. You can have 4 droids that maintain parts between races and prevent their durability from falling and even fixing broken parts, this is important; if you know how, you can use them to choose the 4 vital parts of your pod racer that will never lose durability and either neglect the parts that aren't all that important or replace them on the regular. So you can buy the best engine, best coolant unit, best accelerator and best braking system on the junkyard for cheap and have the droids maintain them and bring them back to full durability. If you're trying to get the best parts for the later races, you can just do an earlier race again; the junkyard will have random items in it and resets after every race, rinse and repeat until you have what you need. You'll save thousands of credits, always buying top shelf/replacing degrading parts is a losing game, you don't earn enough money between races for this to work as the high-end items are incredibly expensive. On the flipside, a fully upgraded pod massively outclasses anything the AI uses and isn't generally required to beat the game.

[@DuckInGameStop]

You can also switch to a different podracer and it'll refresh the junkyard, on the Steam version anyway. I just started a playthrough last night where I unlocked Bullseye Navoir as soon as possible (because he's cool and has really good stats except top speed) and then started buying only 4 of the 7 upgrades. You can only have 4 total pit droids, so if you buy any more upgrades than that (and crash frequently), they won't be able to keep up with repairs and at least one part will always be heavily damaged after each race. Once I finish all the tracks, I can buy the other remaining upgrades with the tens of thousands of truguts I'll have saved up, and then I'll permanently have a perfect podracer because the parts don't get damaged unless you're doing a race you haven't won before! (This technique was suggested to me by someone on the SWE1R Discord server. I can share a link if anyone's interested in joining that, here's an active speedrunning community on there and they've been very helpful explaining things to me since I started playing a few months ago)

[@themanwhowouldbebrick]

@@DuckInGameStop can I have the link to the discord

[@domiraessb]

Answer to have I ever played this game before: yes, yes I have. An excessive amount actually. I grew up playing this game and as a young adult (20) I play it almost daily still. You might wonder how I can still play it that much but it’s because I speedrun it now. The depth of the mechanics of this game go so much farther than anyone can imagine just playing it. I’m happy to see someone bigger bring it to light again :)

[@crazygamers2015]

That frame rate is so smooth!

[@starwarsstories]

Hey Andrew! I'm really enjoying your videos lately! Keep the good work up! Hope I'll see you again at an EA event in the future! Greetings from Austria! :D

[@chickenfeeet]

Hätte nicht erwartet dich hier zu sehen.

[@marwinklemm8448]

This Game was so nice, a new Version would be a Dream.

[@maximills6261]

Junkyard parts have less durability and need to be repaired by the pit droids, if you look at the parts they all have health bars. Parts bought for full price from the store directly have Max hp while discounted parts from the junkyard are cheaper but are damaged. This isnt much of an issue if you have pit droids to repair your parts between races, so as long as you are good at not blowing up your racer you should be fine as the parts dont have less max hp they just go into your inventory already damaged.

[@ii560k]

First game was LEGO STAR WARS. cant wait for the Skywalker saga

[@randomguy4024]

me too mate i cant wait

[@alpha00z26]

not my first but cant wait

[@randomguy4024]

@@alpha00z26 me too

[@jermo1470]

Wich lego star wars

[@ii560k]

@@jermo1470 T&t

[@MosoKaiser]

3:21 It's probably been explained multiple times already further down in the comments, but the difference between the parts store and junkyard is that the parts bought from the store are brand new and cost more, while parts from the junkyard are cheaper but come in various states of reduced condition and need repairs.

[@lukemilton66]

For an N64 game it certainly has alot of heart and detail in it.

[@ForTheBacon]

Its been a great week. Episode 1 Racer and Duke Nukem 3D were 2 of the first games I ever played as a wee bab and both were rereleased on the switch within 24 hours of each other.

[@colbee78336]

The first Star Wars game I ever played was Star Wars Scene Maker.

[@chip5892]

7:30 My mind’s telling me NO. But MAH BODY, MYYY BODYYYY IS TELLING ME YEEEES!

[@general_pigface7203]

I think this game was shown on a TV in Attack of the Clones, in the bar with the death sticks guy

[@jaketimberlake9023]

I think it was a cg made scene rather than from the video game

[@SuperTunnelBoy]

@@jaketimberlake9023 Actually hes half correct, the Podracer scene in the back there is from the Sequel Racer revenge

[@solidkingcobra]

Shadow of the empire on N64. classic game.

[@justinschultheisz4673]

I remember my dad getting this for me at a GameStop one night. It was $5. Still works on my N64

[@devinharris522]

lego Star Wars the complete saga can't call yourself a Star Wars gamer until you play it

[@Ghostkillaz]

Last time I was this early the Younglings were still alive

[@youngmonster2607]

Xd

[@SherloxPro]

Lol

[@lecapitaine5937]

So a long time ago in a galaxy far far away?

[@r3stl3ss]

i remember playing the original at the arcade. sitting in that seat holding the handlebars is a feeling i will never forget.

[@madnimrod2489]

this was my first game, way back on the N64. Good times.

[@mattmillie007]

I used to get SO PUMPED to play the arcade version of this game! I loved how they had the same steering mechanism as Anakin's actual pod racer! Loved it! Talk about nostalgia lol.

[@CalebSmith45271]

Just tying to imagine a young Andrew slapping his computer, to try and get it to work.

[@stellarparallaxstudios]

Difference between the Junkyard and the store was that the store parts were always at 100% Health, on the junkyard their parts were sometimes low on health and since parts decay they become worse over time. However you could get really high tier upgrades in the junkyard pretty early on and cheaper.

[@Sir.Craze-]

Why would it slide on ice if it's hovering? 0\10 - Unplayable.

[@Veldaren]

because it's secretly running on wheels that are just invisible

[@darthmop1]

chill man, it is just a small cool feature

[@pelayosuarez4550]

@@darthmop1 it's clearly sarcasm bro xD

[@lenardstarks5891]

There actually is an answer for this the pod racers use repulsors to hover just above the ground by repelling themselves from the metals in the ground sometimes a set of rails underneath the track to improve “traction” but over a deep frozen lake you don’t get the “stick” that solid ground would give you. So it kinda makes sense if magnetic flying chariot races make any to begin with.

[@STR33TSofJUST1C3]

This was among the first three Star Wars I played. The reason I'm not sure if it was the first one is because I do remember playing two other SW games at the time. These were Episode 1: Phantom Menace and Battle for Naboo. I played those on the PC. I must've been six at the time, and I didn't understand a word of English. And yet, I played the everlasting sh*t out of those games. Somehow I managed to finish those games with barely understanding a word English. As I kept replaying those games my English improved and I started understanding what was being said. _EDIT: just checked the release date. Battle for Naboo would've been the third game as it came two years out after the other two. Funnily enough, it's the only game I can actually remember purchasing._ Those three games were my childhood. They basically were the foundation of me learning a second language, all on my own. I also had Star Wars Force Commander laying around, but six year old me clearly wasn't smart enough to know what the hell I was supposed to do in that game. That wasn't simple racing or flying a starfighter, that was a strategy game. So after hitting a brick wall in the first mission, that game disappeared in a drawer until two years later where my English had improved to the point where I could actually understand the game. Was still difficult at the time, but that was one hell of a game too. Had a banger of a main theme as well. Every time I booted it up, I let the main theme play out before I actually started a mission.

[@Stoopid_Sandwich]

I just finished playing this on steam yesterday. I still feel to this day that episode 1: racer is way better than racers revenge. It feels more like a racing game. The tracks are better, the camera is panned further away so you can just concentrate on the track and unlike the sequel, there are no constant demolition derby elements that just ruined the game for me.

[@DarthLevicor]

Battlefront (2004) Sooooooooooooo good!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As a baby, I would sit on his lap as he played Battlefront (2004) and I would always get scared when Darth Vader started breathing.

[@DarthLevicor]

Also Star Wars: Empire at War (2006) was another early game I played.

[@jackychan9326]

I just got this game and me and my dad had so much fun with it

[@chromerudolf8502]

._.

[@obama_cricket]

Bruh

[@gamerslobyt6680]

I was thinking youre Potato got ... with the other one. Lol

[@RCFlyBoy314]

So many memories! Bought my copy from a used book/entertainment store when I was in elementary school. Mine was glitched to where I couldn't complete one of the tracks, it always froze at a cave entrance. Never finished the series Thanks for the refresh, I'll have to snatch it up again

[@flerkensgalaxy5779]

this game is like a cool version of f-zero. im definitely getting this on switch. BTw, on switch, it has motion controls

[@jamescarbon7357]

@Jonathon Bangerter F-zero was already better then Mario Kart, most real racing games are.

[@superdaveozy7863]

Dont do it. Graphics are not even remastered. You can get it for a dollar at used game stores.

[@Tharmorteos]

my first star wars game was X-Wing from 1993, though i played it around 1995 as a 10 year old. i remember playing it together with a friend who also was into star wars. we'd sit shoulder to shoulder in front of my 15 inch screen and one of us would be the pilot and the other the "R2 unit" managing power for engines, shields and weapons as well as shield distribution. fun times to remember :) also we didn't have a stick back then... i remember the frantic and repeated pulling of the mouse up and down and up and down just to stay behind an enemy fighter xD

[@johnnygoldhand2647]

Hey,bombastic there was this glitch on battlefront yesterday,it reset my money and progress for maul,but came back

[@roanderyker6170]

I had the same glitch

[@peterliu547]

Don’t play as maul anymore

[@grimcollapse]

Rip van winkle you alive?

[@johnnygoldhand2647]

Nighzmare Always Alive

[@suspectpanda3879]

I love this game whole heartedly. It is the first game I ever really played to complete, the first game I ever grinded. I played it on the Nintendo 64 and it made up a giant chunk of my childhood. The surprising thing is I never realized how good I was at it until I watched other people play it. I had such a knowledge of all the maps that I knew them like that back of my hand, and always won the race no matter what. I'm still in disbelief cause at the time I was only 4! This always has been and always will be my favorite star wars game and I am so happy its on PS4 for me to experience again.

[@luciouskyles4500]

I feel like this is the first time I heard Andrew laugh

[@captainkowu7770]

My first game was Lego Star Wars the first one. I won it in art competition and I still have the original box. Such an amazing game

[@TheGrandThrawn]

We want Lego Star Wars III : The Clone Wars ! Because I loved play the big battles with friends ! ❤

[@lecapitaine5937]

Best LEGO game ever, at least for Star Wars

[@alpha00z26]

my favorit

[@jermo1470]

Yes that game is so underrated!

[@Dass_Jennir]

I think Oovo IV was later featured in SW: Bounty Hunter. I believe it’s the prison in an asteroid, one of the most difficult sections in the game and where Jango gets the Slave 1.

[@daxxmason8308]

I played it on Nintendo 64. If i remember correctly, sebulbas pod, if you quickly double tap the repair button? It would flare the vent like he did in the movie. Aslo i think the difference between the shop and junkyard, is the junkyards cheaper, but prone to over heating during a race, or taking longer to repair anyway

[@Yaboi_Phantom]

I loved playing this game on the n64 as a kid and now having it on my ps4 is just the best!

[@randomvideogamenerd]

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire on N64 was my first introduction to Star Wars games. Although the controls felt a bit clunky sometimes I reallly have fond memories of shooting down AT-ATs and AT-STs on Hoth.

[@ElijahMe-rg5fc]

Who remembers Star Wars Racer Revenge? That was an amazing game btw my favorite racer was the last secret character Darth Vader because he had over max stats. Also I found out there's a secret hard mode to unlock it you have to get 7 KO'S with your best pod racer then after the race is over type in NO TIME then it will say ALL CHEATS ENABLE then go to the main menu screen and if you have a PS2 or PS4 hold L1+R1+L2+R2 and spam triangle until it says HARD MODE- ON and there you go gamers 😊

[@Full_Otto_Bismarck]

The tracks were honestly the best thing about this game, they all had a great unique feel to them that to my 11 year old self inspired wonderment.

[@woochristian]

Hi Bombastic, nice Video!!

[@quieness]

That tune of Watto at the end of every race has been stuck in my head for over 20 years now x'd (and counting) Bought it on a sale last year and i was super impressed by how well it held up. Usually when i play a super old game i remember fondly, i still enjoy them ofc, but can notice very well the setbacks of it, but this one, man it aged pretty well honestly. My only complaint after i finished it on Steam was that it wasn't longer lol i think i finished it in about 4-5 hours (i'm still playing it ofc, trying to establish and beat some records c: This game would be BOMB if they remade it well

[@ScrollwormoftheFanWings]

My first game was Battlefront 2015

[@kikhiithekhajiit8770]

Bro this game was rocking in the original arcade machine of the plaza shop such nostalgia in it...

[@JoaoGuilhermePan]

I used to RENT this game and Rogue Squadron for the N64 at the local game store. The amount of hours I spent trying to beat the final circuit... Those were the days!

[@dannutefall5150]

Star Wars podracer revenge was really good for ps2

[@TheDominator25]

Oh this is wonderful news!!!! I have only played the game twice on a former friend's N64 and I enjoyed myself so much on those moments. Now i get to have a copy for myself and play the full experience. The Wipeout series personally for me is the other game that fits this niche for me

[@danielkries6824]

My First Star Wars game was X-Wing vs. Tie fighter, I remember my dad bought it along with a big joystick to play on windows 98...good times

[@AlexTorres-tv7qg]

There is also Star Wars Racer Revenge which originally came out on PS2 and has been available on PS4 for 6 years. It's a very similar game to this.

[@corporategunner5972]

Now this is Pod Racing!

[@walmartdoomguy1131]

You got it wrong- Now this is PORG racing!

[@thornes70]

This takes me back... glad you finally got to play it without the issues

[@Sup3r10n]

The first Star Wars game that I grew up with was Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, and I enjoyed fighting against Darth Maul.

[@CaptainMetal92]

The upgrades have health/durability that goes down if you crash etc and gets repaired by your pit droids. The more droids you have the more gets repaired after a race. The items from the junkyard are cheaper because they already have damage on them that needs to be repaired. Btw repairs only happen after you finished a race.

[@dylanbrosnan4301]

Hey Bombastic great vid!

[@jaredmeenach4885]

Some of my Star Wars introduction Games were Lego Star wars TCS and star wars battle front 1 and 2, but i mainly played 2 in my childhood

[@allengentrick7257]

The junkyard is where you can buy damaged parts for a cheaper price. You have to race in order to fix it. The Buy Parts is where you go and buy new parts that aren't damaged

[@nickmhc]

Dark Forces, X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and Podracer were all awesome games. I remember if your playthrough gave you the top engine part in the used section of Watto’s shop you were good

[@Dios_De_La_Muerte]

This brings back so many good memories

[@bucelliLeo]

I think this was actually the first star wars game I ever played, though I wasn't into it all that much. Galactic Battlegrounds caught my attention after that, and that's partially because I was already a fan of age of empires. The game that really sold me and actually got me into star wars was jedi outcast 2; now that was a banger!

[@huf1180]

Amazing video!

[@Radorian]

Funny I just replayed this and finished it a week ago. So much fun... Gotta love GOG for making old games playable again

[@somethinglol9354]

Love your vids bombastic

[@bpmgaming7747]

I love playing this on the n64

[@j-jam0440]

OG Star Wars battle front for PS2 which is the reason I got into Star Wars in the first place

[@jrmiller1310]

This brings back so much nostalgia

[@mikedoge5559]

This and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace game were my first Star Wars games....it was all in english so back then I didnt understand anything, not to dialogue and texts...that didnt stop me ofc as I just tried every option of dialogue in Phantom Menace for the best option :D

[@arvelcrynyd6311]

Dude! I've been saying they need to reboot Racer as like a Forza Horizon type game! But in the new Racer you can race not only Pods but Speeders, and Speeder Bikes too. Make it all customizable, different paint jobs, different parts that affect the way your vehicle looks and the stats, etc. Build your own vehicle. Race online against other players. Have a short single player story campaign that's cannon but have a large emphasis on online play. I think people would buy the hell out of that.

[@MrDirrrty]

I remember having a heavy duty force feedback joystick to play this. The force feedback was so impressive.

[@joshant0920]

The flying trick works thank for teach me man

[@Rynewulf]

I played the ps2 sequel, it was so cool and such a part of my childhood, still gutted that to this day there hasn't been a proper stable pc release for either of them

[@blacksheepuniversal3799]

Oh dear, I must confess my first star wars game was... Droidworks!

[@engineergaming9877]

The first Star Wars game I played was Star Wars: Force Unleashed, which is absolutely my all-time favorite, but the game that really got me into Star Wars was Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

[@maddinpictures3102]

My first star wars game was Super Star Wars on SNES, this racer was my first PC full version game after starting with the Phantom Menace game Demo from Pizza (the) Hutt . But only last year I was finally able to win the last cloud track and get Bozzie Baranta^^

[@nomar5spaulding]

Episode 1 Racer is a great game. I think my first Star Wars game was Rogue Squadron on the N64.

[@gatree4413]

I never played this one but i played a lot of Star Wars Racer Revenge on my PS4 when it came with the Star Wars Battlefront bundle

[@TheOtherGuys2]

The first Star Wars game I played was the one that came packaged with my N64. Yep, Star Wars Episode 1 Racer. Played a TON of this game. Never managed to beat Abyss. Ebe Endocott was my racer of choice. Bullseye Navior was my brother's, Neva Kee was my sister's, and Dud Bolt was my mom's. The junkyard lets you buy broken parts that don't work as well, for lower cost. There's... ostensibly a way to repair those parts, but I don't understand how it works. (Does anyone know? I still have the N64 hooked up, so.. it could be handy.)

[@WillyFresh92]

It was so weird playing the rerelease because the N64 version I grew up on didnt have most of the voice acting/cutscenes

[@coffeecrusader4863]

Episode 3 the game was my introduction to star wars games

[@jayfeather7764]

This was the first star wars game i played. And it was on the n64. I still own both the cartridge and system. And they both still work. I guess its time to play it again. I love racing games.

[@theaninova]

Oh my God, I have a PS4 just for WipEout, now it's gonna be for WipEout and Star Wars Episode 1 Racer.

[@leightoncressman6188]

It was this game I just bought it yesterday when it released on the switch and it is glorious.

[@davidordaz5251]

I remember I would play this game so many times on my folks old Macintosh back in 1999 good times

[@doctor-who4267]

This was the first game I played when I was given a Nintendo 64 by a friend of the family

[@losbichosdeaxel]

i played it on the n64. this game destroys the sticks on your joystick because of the turbo.while accelerating you have to try to hold still the stick and when the bar goes black you push the stick forward and hold it while trying to drive

[@HistoryBluff137]

Podracer has sort of been on PS4 since 2015. If you got the 2015 Battlefront PS4 (and maybe other special editions, idk) Podracer, Bounty Hunter, Super Star Star Wars, and Jedi Starfighter came with it. Sony started pulling them from shelves shortly after release though so it's not that common. Later they'd rease a similar looking SW PS4 with Disney Infinity but it had a few slight differences

[@goodmusicpodcast7368]

I’m pretty sure this was my first Star Wars game too, never got past Grabvine Gateway as a kid

[@mackenzieshaffer3709]

Oovo IV is where Jango Fett acquired the Slave I in Star Wars Bounty Hunter.

[@jacobdude1]

This was my brother and I’s first and top star wars games. We played on Nintendo64 and still have the cartridge. I’m going to have to bust it out for old times sake.

[@MrZega000]

I could never figure out how to jump over that giant dragonfly as a kid

[@Arkey707]

Clegg Holdfast is my new favorite character

[@arvelcrynyd6311]

Also, I had this, of course. But my first SW game was Shadows of the Empire on N64.

[@MacG4me]

We need a Remaster of this game with UE5