Unremarkable and odd places in Star Wars Episode 1 Racer

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[@Skrimshady]

Next video idea: Diddy Kong Racing

[@MrAlexsfs]

Thank you, Holden!

[@Knee_Boy64]

Thank you, Holden!

[@chompythebeast]

Thank you, Holden!

[@BrentMalice]

Thank you, Holden!

[@bradybaker7650]

Imagine betting everything on a pod race, just to have your racer sit in a tent

[@goofbrush]

the level design for this game is unparalleled at points. Most of the tracks that share planets all overlap with each other, seperated by barriers so youre able to combine them to get the full tracks. So much care went into making every detail I still find stuff to this day

[@domiraessb]

Hi goof, fancy seeing you here

[@Captain_Blackbean]

I love this series. When I saw this video, I said, out loud, to myself, 'Hell yes, Austin."

[@boombob3D]

Yeah it’s a cool series

[@turntsnaco824]

I JUST THOUGHT-SAID THE SAME THINGGG. Played this game so much as a kid.

[@MAIMEDWOLF]

LITERALLY SAME!!!!

[@jonathanwilson7949]

All here, Hey Austin

[@mathiasgreyjoy1611]

And then everyone on the bus stood up and clapped 👏👏

[@thomasservon9097]

Imagination Prison is the most accurate term for canon universes I’ve ever heard of lmao

[@hashmere69]

I deeply appreciate the transitions between locations where you took off driving before the fadeout to imply that you physically drove to the next spot before continuing to speak. Thank you.

[@kasai1018]

I haven’t thought of it played this game in over 20 years but as soon as you said “new lap record” that goofy ass voice summoned itself from the depths of my subconscious memory

[@darkjapan]

8:42 This big circular room could be a Panopticon. A circular room from which all prisoners can be observed at the same time. A few old prisons have them. Fun fact. The Panopticon was an idea of English Utilitarian philosopher Jeremey Bentham, who is also famous for having his body embalmed and permanently displayed at the university of London. 5:52 My god you are right! Tattoine was a small and pretty boring planet, you can bet most of them would remember and still discuss podracing history like we still talk about football history. A little slave boy winning the grand prix would have been big news! Luke definitely knew about Anikins win that day! He probably watched repeats of it on TV a few times. Please make more N64 videos! Thank you Austin!

[@matheussodre3011]

I just love how you break each game's own concept of time and how it passes. Exploring and looking around spaces not designed to be looked around in "in real time" brings a different level of life to every single game you do this.

[@yetanotheruser1989]

That's one of my favourite aspects of these videos. What happens when you stop? What elements of the world continue, and what comes to a complete halt.

[@titanoboaoficial2014]

Wow man this episode is very special to me... This game in particular i played a lot in my childhood with my uncle, dad, friends and even friends who are not here anymore... The Zelda videos and this one are very nostalgic... Please keep doing these videos its an amazing work! By the way the sky and beach races were super hard for me damn.... Oh and your original music is amazing man! Saludos desde Colombia! 🇨🇴

[@Kafei2006]

3:28 I find it pretty funny, complaining about the audience in the stands being poorly represented when the audience filmed in wide shots in the actual movie Phantom Menace was just a collection of painted Q-Tips lol. This is a real piece of filmmaking trivia btw, if you didn't know about it I recommend you look it up, you can see pictures of the model of the stands that was used, lined with Q-Tips of various colours. If you can't find it, add Michael Lynch to your search, he was the model maker for that scene.

[@-ye]

Your unremarkable content is the best! I only wish it was longer form! ✌🏼🔥

[@swisserty]

What the actual drink? Yellow comment with Monterrey surrendering

[@quasicroissant]

go outside nerd

[@TankorSmash]

@@alixfidare9175 typically to support the channel, to help them make more of it

[@RavenRedwood]

I love that you just referred to Star Wars as _George Lucas's imagination prison_

[@edarjolefeu3575]

This game was always super weird to me with the areas. It makes me think of the game Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. That game is extremely weird and has a lot of weird vibes and vague sort of areas. Plus that game has a fully effective debug code that you can use to get anywhere. Hint hint. Also, nice shirt.

[@IceSpoon]

Star Wars Explained (incredible YT channel) did a Let's Play Series of Shadows of the Empire. And even he had to stop a few many times and say "...why is this here?". There are so many odd choices with designing that game that I feel it's worth an entire session of odd and unremarkableness.

[@JMBAD_art]

I just can’t stop watching these. I used to do this constantly as a kid. I still do sometimes, but the nostalgia of finding a place in a video game and just thinking about… what does that place mean to the fictional people who inhabit that world? God, I just LOVE this

[@demit189]

Hi, Austin. I do indeed know that you're a sucker for shorelines, skyboxes, and tree walls-- what a lovely surprise to find such a beautiful and cozy(-liminal) space in such an obscure game. Great vid, really enjoying this kind of stuff-- your personality is your strength in your videos I think and I'm really enjoying your creativity recently.

[@archangel5784]

I love this series. Racing games seem perfectly suited to creating these spaces, since you're pretty much never expected to stop and look too closely at anything. I'd love to see you show Diddy Kong Racing, as most of the courses have lots of areas that open up in ways that are never explored by most players and give off some odd vibes.

[@BierBart12]

Absolutely. The Gamecube NFS games and Mario Kart were where I discovered my appreciation of this Hot Pursuit 2 had some weird spots where certain sounds played over and over, like residential or bird noises. Usually, you'd only passingly hear them

[@55Kryan]

This is my favorite series on the internet right now. Your commentary is lovely and your taste in games is impeccable

[@TheJJZeeman]

There’s a level with a huge excavator or some big vehicle where you can crash into the treads or even get run over. It actually moves back and forth in a little route. I stopped racing once and watched it to see where it would go. It was like stepping back and realizing how messy and disproportionate your chalkboard drawing is haha. Great video

[@EddieEddieEddie90]

I once got stuck in it for about an hour and I just stood there looking at the tv screen waiting for the pod to blow anytime haha

[@TheJJZeeman]

@@EddieEddieEddie90 Haha stuck in the big dump truck thing?

[@Vtech1459]

The salt mine track, I got stuck there too

[@Monki-Birthday]

This video and the RE4 employment rate video have been the first thing to make me smile during a bad depressive episode. Love the videos and I thank you so much

[@Micolash_is_behind_you]

such an aesthetically unique game

[@joshshrum2764]

The higher resolution definitely amplifies it.

[@dooptown]

"Everyone knows I'm a sucker for a big tree wall" is a good shirt idea. Have like a tree wall beneath the text or something

[@any_austin]

You’re right

[@DracoGalboy]

4:35 kinda doesn't lining up like that is a small, odd, and unremarkable example of why your channel is such a wonderful one. The care you show to each piece of the process shines through like the stars behind the moon a few minutes later

[@Lilly_Belle]

I audibly inhaled in excitement when I saw this! I don't know how I got by without these uploads, honestly. You're a lovelyman, Austin.

[@TIN_Tevlev]

8:07 Notice how the moon is cut in half (not just eclipsed by the asteroid) because you can see the stars behind it lol

[@blerygriltt206]

Was looking for this comment. Odd but actually a little remarkable

[@CanuckMonkey13]

Came down to the comments to find this comment or make it myself. Reminded me of an old Slylock Fox cartoon where the solution involved the fact that you could see stars like this where they should have been blocked by the moon, proving that the photo (or whatever) was a fake. I couldn't stop looking at this the whole time the moon was on screen. I was trying to convince myself that maybe the light dots in the dark portion of the moon could maybe be sources of light on the moon, but that doesn't seem to fit with the multiple shots we see!

[@faedec_music]

When I was a very young kid I played this game all the time. I didn't know anything about star wars and didn't care about winning races but I liked to crash the pods in fun ways and explore the areas. This video feels oddly therapeutic

[@chompythebeast]

What a cool choice for this series. Played this game a TON as a kid on the N64, and you mentioned the cut scenes―when I got the Switch version, that was the first time I'd ever seen them! The tie-in games Lucas Arts used to do were pretty amazing, especially compared to other film tie-in games. Their choice to make so many different games in totally different genres based on the prequels made for some really interesting experiences across every console on the market at the time

[@zakashiXninja]

This was the first n64 game I beat as a kid, soo much nostalgia thanks I love these series, keep it up

[@stripedmilo]

I'm so glad you did a video on this game, the entire thing is so memorably "off." I just replayed it last year and what struck me was the massive scale of all of the courses. They feel huge, and also because of the strange difficulty curve, you will spend a LOT of time in the races without seeing a single other pod, so they feel very lonely. It's like the dreams where you're running and keep going faster and faster.

[@krush454]

I love these videos. I literally have this game in the next room sittting on my n64, with the CRT. I think this game looks better on a CRT just because it kind of blends the scenery in a less HD more Happ-Y way. Keep making these, make more, and keep reminding me why I kept my n64!

[@kelownatechkid]

talented devs like these used the characteristics of CRTs to make better-looking imagery. Anything from that era is best enjoyed on a CRT for sure!

[@CircusFoxxo]

Fun fact, devs from this era used the squares in a CRT screen as an early form of anti-aliasing

[@thoughtsforthebuilders]

you sonuvabich, i was watching your SWBF2 Skybox video today and lamenting the two week passing since your last video you take all the time you need King, always hyped to see you upload.

[@nilzero5686]

oh my GOD you have no idea what weird stuff you can find in oldschool racing games. Wipeout XL, or 2097 in PAL regions? check out the forest track, or the space track. The world outside the fence is so enticing. There's also Killer Loop and Rollcage which both have extremely uncanny tracks. Hell even the rally games and stuff feel extremely lonely and weird. It's a goldmine for this stuff.

[@erry9895]

It's so funny that this such a weird concept for content, yet people love it so much. Thank you to you and your dad for taking us to the races, what a wonderful time we had.

[@H3Vtux]

Something about the N64 era of games really does lend itself to "unremarkable and odd places" series. It seemed to have enough horsepower to have large spaces but not enough to have objects/npcs/decals in all of those spaces. Only exception would be banjo kazooie. I remember in that game every inch of the map was put to use for game design.

[@månemannmånemann]

It's impossible not to look the direction of the green race direction windows xp arrows, as if they point at what Austin describes. Also, about the seashore animation; i find that it's pretty rare,in all its crudeness, that the wet sand is colored differently than the dry. And the colors of the sand and water shades are the kind you'd want to pipette into a palette to use on your self-hosted tumblr

[@SimoneViles]

I watched (and loved) egg busters like a billion years ago when I was 2 years old and now I am 21 and I see this guy back in my recommended and I fell to my knees in a Walmart. Love ya Austin, I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

[@Z10ZeeTen]

This is the first video of yours I’m seeing and I love the Joe Pera energy of the whole experience

[@Eyetrauma]

The beach location with the foggy volcano, stone head and four frame shore has major vaporwave vibes. Personally I always liked the level with the lava and the crossing metal bars that you race through.

[@dragons_hook]

3:42 Surprisingly, Tatooine is the only planet to have only 2 courses on it, making it the least raced world in the game! Aquilaris, Oovo IV, Ord Ibanna, and Malastare have 3 tracks each, and Ando Prime and Baroonda have a whopping 4!

[@Falterdan23]

More of these and skyboxes please, cant get enough of these n64 era vids.

[@joman66]

7:51 The space stage with the tubes was my favorite stage in the game. My and my brother would fly through them on Coop and then turn around and we found a way to glitch outside of the level to fall into an ebyss and restart on the track. I vividly remember seeing the tubes snaking from under the map! Also always found the N64's low poly-ness to be interesting, for example with this game's garage having low poly models of things. Love your videos man!

[@mario7886]

"This is where they would put El Chapo if he was in Staw Wars" is a very funny sentence to hear with or without context

[@ianlarsen3920]

My goodness, this hits me deep with nostalgia. This is one of the games I grew up on. I loved taking the shortcut tent.

[@RadicalEdward2]

6:11 fun fact: Oovo IV would later appear again in the game Star Wars: Bounty Hunter where Jango Fett would get his signature ship that Boba Fett would later inherit after his death.

[@erinidum]

I never scroll past one of these videos when I see them. The moment it comes across my recommended, I click. Please make this series forever. I adore it.

[@Mech4]

A good game for this type of stuff is Monster Truck Madness 1 and 2. I enjoyed roaming around the tracks in MTM2 and, because there's no fences or barriers, you can drive in a direction until you loop back around to the track again. Quite a few of the tracks have hidden things scattered around like dinosaur skeletons, sunken ships, statues, train tracks and roads.

[@IceSpoon]

My favourite unremarkable place in this game is Ando Prime, the Expert Track where you race in what it looks like a frozen stadium. It's so eery because you actually hear some cracks in the ice. And if you think Oovo IV's open spaces are too open an un-detailed (just detailed enough to make you wonder "where the hell am I? What do they use this for?"), then that Ando Prime's stadium is super remarkably unremarkable.

[@dizzythegreat]

I really like the idea of watching a podrace from a tent on the track in the Star Wars universe

[@chaoslord8918]

The more I think about this game and subject, the more I think that it really is just Uncanny: The Movie: The Video Game... and I love it.

[@Stereohead228]

Great episode, looooove this series, was so happy when this popped up in my feed. I will say I missed the cozy CRT filter in this episode, not sure if it’s something that requires you to play on specific hardware (in which case don’t worry about it), but if it’s just a filter/effect that you add in post-pro, I would say you should bring it back for this series, as I think it added a lot in previous episodes. Anyways great work I’ve been loving all your recent vids! 🫡

[@jessesmith4309]

Another game with some weird areas: Cruis'n World on N64. So many weird little details you can miss as you blaze by them, and completely unremarkable because they're almost all 2-D paper cutout looking sprites that are decorating the environment - but still enough to have a weird little flavor all its own.

[@charlesc3564]

I was actually going to make a comment saying that the only flaw with this video is that you didn't use Neva Kee to showcase these worlds, and then you gave him his own little section. As someone that put hundreds of hours as a child into this game I can say this video is a masterpiece 👌

[@SOMEGUY7893]

I really hated how the sequel dropped Neva Kee for some reason.

[@Ostnizdasht206]

I always love stopping and looking into the crowds in sports and racing games.

[@DiggitySlice]

Wow his hair is actually amazing when he doesn't have a bunch of metal clips in it

[@Sinth_Node]

That large blue room reminds me of a panopticon! The style of prison arrangement where the guard towers are in the middle and can view any cell at any moment! Might just work since it’s you mentioned it as a jail planet.

[@shisky]

These are easily my favorite videos on KZbin

[@seiretzym]

I can't tell if "ando preem" is your joke, or george lucas's joke. I adore the way you mimic "new lap record!", that triggered the memory of the announcer voice instantly! more of these n64 vids please :D

[@organicketchup5171]

I love this. As big N64 and Star Wars fans, my friends and I used to like sometimes abandoning our races just so we could look around. One time we really scared ourselves when we mistook one of the rock pinnacles on Tattooine for a huge, wampa-like monster. That dragonfly beast on Malastare scared us too!

[@karldi7648]

I enjoy your odd places videos. I myself enjoy finding them when I'm playing!

[@thewarf3212]

Loved when I had this game as a child. My favorite part when Sebulba says it’s episode one racin time and then episode one racin’d all over the screen

[@musicshade9049]

I remember playing this back in the 90s. One of the few games I owned on N64. It looked great for its time and the sound was intense! We had some large speakers and the sound of the pod engines was crazy, at least to my little kid brain. No idea how that would hold up today. Guess I gotta find out!

[@pibbles_]

This series has immaculate vibes

[@anoriori]

hey i like this video! please make more videos like this! (unremarkable and odd places is such a great series and a reminder that i should stop and smell the roses more while playing games like i used to as a kid)

[@mintpalmer]

I find it amusing that there are stars in front of the moon at 7:05. Texture was obviously just the lit portion of the moon lol

[@illustrious-jaco]

ur making me realize how many of my life-altering early-childhood experiences were creepy and weird

[@AndrewChumKaser]

In the invitational races there's another race on the asteroid called the gauntlet that actually has a very prominent area that takes place on the surface of the asteroid with exposed rock. It even gets bombarded by meteors and you have to avoid the explosions or get engine fires.

[@HOUCEMATE]

I played this game a lot when I was like 10 or something, if I got it to work. I'm glad I'm not the only one with a soft spot for it. The vibes I got from circuits like Scrapper's Run or the Spice Mine Run feel palpable to this day. Growing up playing this game for me was realizing that Anakin had the best pod all along. There was just no point in trying to get Boles Roor's boar ass around a corner, even though he was faster. And no, I will not stand for any Neva Kee slander; that little man was zippy as shit. Regardless, I don't think I'll ever grow tired of the liminal quality of video games that came with the limitations of 90s hardware. It's kind of like dreaming; you recognize people and environments but your brain kind of 'imagines' the details. Like a flat texture that's supposed to represent a roaring crowd.

[@daleorth7690]

Yess please keep making videos like this! Love this content! Great job

[@ViridiansVivarium]

Love these style of videos, this one was especially fun for me. Thank you for continuing to upload.

[@StoneAndersonStudio]

I spent SO much time in this game as a kid. It really does feel like an amusement park or something once you stop.

[@Scrawlerism]

aaaaah that "getting away from it all" feeling. that shit is the good stuff

[@dinodude4486]

Your humour is great bro. Also, your music at the end. watching this after having a few drinks. Chefs kiss. Cheers 🎉

[@kirbyofthestarsfan]

This was probably my first videogame ever along Toy Story 2, and man this episode was special to me I loved looking at the corners of the levels and just look around the background for all kinds of cool landmarks, I hope you can make more of these with this game Btw: the prison level in the 4 champion stages has actually a whole zone on the asteroid field part, this game was always interesting since the racetracks in different planets all change layouts while keeping some assets closeby, it's neat Btw: the credits in the n64 version say Princess Zelda under special thanks lol

[@kemasuk]

I like how you can see the volcano in the Neva Kee race, but you go through it in a different race (the one against Ebee Endocott).

[@Girlwithanimpact]

Please keep these videos going! They’re awesome.

[@chuchu9649]

This unlocked yet another childhood memory I forgot I had

[@WC3fanatic997]

Never thought I would be all about a series of "Guided Tours Of the Most Mundane Places Imaginable" But the internet has this way about changing your mind

[@BilltheFifth]

I cant tell you how excited I was for this! Not only do I love your videos, I have been playing this game again recently. Perfection. 👌🏼

[@Ocarina654]

Just discovered this channel today and I've watched I think six of them now. Love this series, and this game is perfect for it! You could probably have found a dozen more odd spots in Episode 1 Racer and still not covered everything. Also, lol at the Neva Kee demonstration.

[@Ryan-Petre]

Good choice tackling this game. It features such huge, vast landscapes that you blow by, there's probably a treasure trove of cool stuff to find hidden in it's maps.

[@snugasapugonarug]

Yessss I loved every inch of Oovo IV when I was a kid, it's great. I raced on that map so many times.

[@Sone781]

Thank you for doing this one. This game is really important to me, as one of my firsts, and I used to just go exploring because of all the strange areas in 3D.

[@kamikazemelon787]

I had an absolute obsession with this game as a kid. In fact I still have my original console, cartridge and memory pak with all my saves...maybe I'll hook that bad boy up soon

[@pseudonym..]

Austin, I love these. I would love more. Instant watch

[@Slyfox2235]

Love the clouds that are on the beach level

[@ericalexander781]

You would love the game Interstate ‘76 (1997). My childhood favorite. Lots of neat little space. No invisible walls. You can drive into the open desert for hours.

[@chaoslord8918]

5:36 "Parsecs? No, that's distance." I see what ya did there. Shots fired, or should I say... Any Austin shot first.

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

Of all the games for you to do this. This one has so many strange vistas to take in. It's crazy that a PS1/N64 game vs could feel so big vast and fast

[@ce7.0]

I never got to the Baroonda levels when i played it as a kid but reading the description of it in the manual fascinated me. When i finally completed the game on Switch, it didn't disappoint. Beautiful

[@ManleyReviews]

that intro with the reverb had me checking my tabs thinking i had several playing lol

[@pirate4460]

I am glad I found this channel. you should check out the first level of Prince of Persia, sands of time as there are murals that reveal the plot to the game that are pretty cool.

[@shyferr]

I think a great addition to this series would be PacMan world 2. It was my jam when I was little, and I feel there are tons of spaces that would fit in these videos.

[@djinnspalace2119]

7:35 just realized theres a star inside the shadow of the moon

[@TheIncredible2IC]

Another racing game from this era with similar vibes is Hot Wheels Turbo Racing. Lots of tracks with areas you fly through when normally playing, but feel strange when sitting in.

[@bushdidtitanic3013]

Egg Controller you are a legend for the request and thank you Any Austin for the great video, Keep up the good work!

[@geminimojo8019]

I couldn't stop seeing a weird man's face with the pod racer your using. always a big fan of these vids.

[@nicholaslorenz9624]

There's something that feels particularly isolating about racing games, and I think it's even more noticeable in the strange, otherworldly, and outer space locations in Star Wars episode I: Racer.

[@jupitervideos7702]

You have to make a My Singing Monsters Skybox appreciation, they are very abstract but some are utter vibes like Air Island.

[@Rad_Dan]

I’ve never seen this game before, and I think you’re the only person that could get me to watch 15 minutes of just looking at random stuff in this game I’ve never seen before. Top quality content right here

[@IIITrunks]

liked this video. Unremarkable places in Crazy Taxi. That games got a weird aesthetic thats both cartoony but mundane