This is one of the best series any gaming youtuber is putting out right now.

"it sucks when your enemy has the high ground" -Thab & Anakin

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 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.

“Battle of Hoth, where ever that is…..” You’re killing me smalls!

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

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.

I don’t think that’s the original Wilhelm Scream, it’s probably a recreation.

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.

10:44 he learned of the high ground the hard way. Those of us who are previously indoctrinated would never underestimate the power of the high ground.

4:30 -- That stupid crack in the floor made me die sooooooo many times back in the day.

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 was in middle school when this came out. Middle school was troubling times, so this game was a wonderful escape. Great video, man!*

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.

Switching to 1st person helped a lot in the shooting levels. And also the swoop bike level.

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!

Every so often I subscribe pretty much in an instant. No screaming, no cliché KZfaqr nonsense. Just simple narrative and gameplay. Good stuff.

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!

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.

An absolutely iconic N64 entry. One of my faves. The baster fire was so satisfying 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!

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

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.

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

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.

Love this series. And Shadows of the Empire was my first N64 game!

I'm not sure if "they have the high ground" was a joke or not. Your deadpan delivery is spot on thab. 👍

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

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.

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.

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

This is the beat part of my Friday morning

Only Star Wars game I had on N64 was Pod Racer, but I remember playing that game so much, it was great.

this is such a sick series. Really hope you stick it out!

I just hard binged this whole series... Now I have to be patient 😭😭

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?

It's kinda funny you went through the whole game not realizing you could go into first person.

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!

He keeps talking about the high ground advantage but he has never watched the movies and has no idea haha

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.

The mid-90s was a pretty cool time for Star Wars fans - Lucasfilm launched several projects to draw attention to the 20th anniversary of Star Wars and Shadows of the Empire was a cross-media experiment that not only included this game but also a pretty good novelization, comic books, and bunch of toys. People like to shit on Disney for a few of their missteps w/ the IP but for those of us OG Star Wars fans we remember a time when Lucasfilm released NOTHING to move along the story or expand the universe and we fans only had semi-officially licensed fan-fiction in the form of comics, video games, and novels like Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy. So it was pretty cool that Lucasfilm actually released an officially licensed addition to the franchise after more than a decade but I don't want to return to those days where the EU represented the vast majority of any new SW material. Disney's batting average hasn't been stellar but they gave us Andor so I count the current era as a W on the whole...

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 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.

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.

"apparently theres a battle at hoth, wherever the hell that is..." lmao as a SW fan i died there already ^^

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 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.

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.

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

Love this series so much man. Such a good idea. Really brings me joy on fridays

Enemies having the high ground being brutal in a game made a decade before Ep.3 being noticed by a guy who never watched Ep.3, how poetic.

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

Such a great video series man! It brings back so many nostalgic feelings for me, I loved this game. Liked and subbed!

That fucking speeder bike ring jump thing gave me PTSD flashbacks.

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.

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.

Watching someone who's never seen Star Wars talk about it with irreverence is the best thing in the world.

This is one of my fav Star wars games, the music in Xizor's palace is goated

I love this channel. Great nostalgia and much fun to see you discover all these games for the first time.

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.

The swoop bike is so difficult. Especially if you want to 100% the game and get the secret rabit ears medallion.

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.

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 KZfaq videos is also addictive. What a time to be alive

That's not a Wilhelm scream, but it's close

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.

For real dude, you having watched South Park, Indy, Star Wars, god knows what else. Mad like, how rare

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...

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

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 😢😅

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.

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.

I remember playing this. But I don't think I finished the game, it was too hard.

IT'S OVER, THAB. I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND.

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.

I’m really enjoying this series man, these videos and commentary is great. I be letting these play when i sleep lol

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.

Oh god, I remember this game. I never tried to play it without cheats because it was way too difficult and unfair.

"Depending on how you approach it you die" ThaB *flies in the middle of the group of enemies n dies*

I've liked and subbed. Trying to beat every n64 game is both insane and ridiculously entertaining lol keep it going, I believe in you!

This brought me back to watching my older brother beat this game. I was waiting for this one. Thanks, dude!

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!

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.

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.

This is a great idea for a channel. You got a subscribe and like from me pal. Shadows of the empire is one of the hardest games on N64. This isn't the only one either. Alot N64 titles are hard, no hand holding, sometimes no maps and frustrating but somehow still satisfying to complete.

Great concept and great content. You made a fan in me.

Excellent video ThaB. Keep doing amazing things.

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?"

The snowy Chewbaccas-you let them out of their cells and then run out the door. You hear them struggling with each other and then you hear a long growl or something. You reopen the door and one comes at you but it’s close to death. You can just run backwards and fire your blaster at it and it will go down with a little effort.

this lil baby boi playing all the old n64 games, bless, my heart

omg i remember putting hours into this when i was a kid....hated it and loved it!

Funny story: my friend and I got stuck on the Boba Fett level when we were kids so we called Nintendo Power for help. I guess we spent over $100 on that phone call and his parents were quite upset.

This game terrified me as a child, those sewers were nothing but pure nightmare fuel.

One of the best games on the 64. Wish they would make a good Star Wars movie about this story.

Great video as always thab. I remember this game as a kid and back then I thought the graphics were great. Haha 😂😂😂

Dash is like the smartest Star Wars character that doesn't want to deal with Sith, Jedi, and even Disney..

Loving this series. Watched you smash this game on long play too. Was a tough game as a kid, that sewer monster terrified me.

I used to rent this game alot lol the at-st on foot part was always hard as a child