This review under sells the game in my opinion. I remember the game to be far superior than he makes it sound.

Actually thought this was a very underrated racer.

A very very underrated game

Best racer on n64

I disagree with the game being too easy. I've played the game on N64 since it came out, & it wasn't till a few years ago that I managed to beat every single race in 1st. I actually think it's a great example of how much harder older games really are to fully "beat", when compared to modern ones.

The hardest level in the game has to be Abyss imo. Grabvine Gateway is a close second, but you can still blast your way through it pretty easily. Abyss is a nightmare to try and stay on top of the track so you don't automatically fall back to 8th place from 1st and have Bozzie blast ahead and never be caught. I just played through it again today, and I spent a good three hours trying to get down the turns on Abyss.

This was graphically one of the most impressive feats on n64. True Dreamcast version wipes the floor with it, but with the expansion Pak, this is as good as a racer can look on n64

There was actually one weapon in this game and it's on Sebulaba's pod. He as a flame thrower on the side that you can use to set other racer's pods on fire.

This game is awesome and still holds up today. I love how fast paced it is since it makes you feel like you have lightning reflexes when you race well. The pod racing was probably my favorite part about the first movie also but i loved the movie so i was completely pumped for anything star wars related at the time.

I disagree with you on this one. I think I'd actually go as far as to say that this was probably my favorite game on the N64. (Goldeneye, this, Rogue Sq and Jet force gemini all fighting for that crown) I remember the moment I bought it in that beautiful black box. I put at least as many hours into this as I did Goldeneye, if not more. I loved it! I only wish the PC version would still run on modern systems, I bought a boxed version a couple of years ago and was left very disappointed. Maybe GOG will help us out with that. In a world of lazy remakes and reboots, this is one game I really would love to see made again. I do agree about the loneliness however, if they do make another, they it would certainly benefit from the some improved AI.

Man, I remember playing this all the time with my friends when I was a kid. This was one of the first games I got good at and enjoyed playing on a regular basis.

this was my favourite racer on n64.

This was my first game that I had. I received this game like gift of christmas in a Nintendo 64 Episode I edition with the Darth Maul face in the box and the Star Wars Racer game with a nice posters of Sebulba and Anakin. This was the best gift that I ever received in my life. This game is amazing. I think that this game had very advanced graphics for the time. The gameplay is well and the roster is perfect because the game includes all of racers of the film. "Bullseye" Navior has a insane speed and I think that is the best character in this game.

this game was like taking a relaxing stroll through a forest going at 800 mph :D

I love your reviews of these old N64 games. They bring back tons of memories! I was never able to beat this. I got to the very challenging level a few ones before the end (but after the very challenging Grapevine Gateway or whatever the hell it was called!).

Dude I remember playing this on my old Nintendo 64 thanks man for being in my fyp this is so nostalgic😭😭

I remember getting the bundle pack from my dad when I graduated 8th grade. I played with my friends for days, they all spent the night at my house and we beat the game within a matter of hours and you're right it got boring and I never went back to it that was 17 years ago but after seeing this review I want to play it again! So thanks and keep up the good work.

I never got bored of playing this game over and over!

I love this game and played the heck out of it during the era, and still can pick it up and enjoy it thoroughly. It's one that I feel a lot of people overlook on the N64.

Was looking forward to your review on this one! I remember watching Episode 1 in theatres and a couple face-palm moments - but felt it revived itself during the final scenes. I was pretty excited to play the game - and remember how fun it was to race against friends. I have since gone back to it, and find it very difficult to play, but the memories are always there. Great review man!

It's my favorite racing game, even above UG2. I love how the game's part repair system encourages you to pick a secondary racer so your tourney smasher can rest up. It gives you that option but you can still just spend your winnings to replace broken parts if you don't want to wait. There's alot more depth in manuevering tight corners, and the engine repair is convenient to use if you're in an area that you need to slow to 300-400 mph anyway so you've got fresh engines with a long boost duration once you come up to that adrenaline stretch.

This was and still is my favorite N64 game. I thought this game was super hard when I was younger but that never stopped me from playing it. I've went back through it recently to complete it and unlock all the racers and it was a challenge but totally doable. Thanks!

N64, rouge squadron, and Ep 1 racer beefed up with the expansion pack, was some of my favourite gaming of all time!!!

english its not my native language, when i was a kid i didnt knew that you could upgrade your podracers, so i almost beat the entire game with 0 upgrades.... no wonder why it was so frustating and hard, many hours trying to beat a level that seem imposible.. i feel like a need to get a n64 and this game again, now that i know about upgrades and shit i will beat it

Big props to using the Star Wars medley by Big Head Mode. My best childhood friend exited his wedding ceremony to this recording lol

In my experience of collecting for the N64 I have concluded that this is the single most common N64 game, at least in North America. Would you agree with that Glenn?

I played the game at Pax South 2019. It was a challenge to get the fastest time on the Tatooine level as Anakin. I won and was impressed even for being way past its release date.

I just wish the phantom menace full movie game was on the n64.

I'm not a fan of racing games but love this one used to rent it and play with friends when I was a kid. Ordered it of amazon the other day can't wait till it arrives.

This was a game that you could play in the shop for free. At the time I got my fill while playing it there. Multiplayer games with replay value monopolized my gaming money. Another great review GP and I can't wait for the finale!

One of my all time favourite games!

I thought this was one of the best games on the N64 tbh, the graphics were great and with what felt like crazy speed and game play

For some strange reason the physics of how the pod and thrusters move strikes me as more realistic and appealing in the N64 version. I can't put my finger on it.

Wow I remember playing this as a kid. I had alot of fun playing it.

awesome review buddy! I'm really loving star wars month with you. I fall into the group of people that really love this game. It does have a few flaws as you pointed out, but between it being star wars, and the racing/speed/controls being so well done, I just cant get enough of it.

This was one of the best games of my childhood, also helps that I loved Star Wars.

I loved the tracks in this game... unlocked characters get very good near the end and the challenge really ramps up (although if you take care with your upgrades, you can really take a chunk out of it). I started off "Luke" warm on the game but after a few hours in I was hooked and having a ton of fun. The game was also insanely cheap in stores here in Canada. I also got the game for nearly free with some local retail store club points back in the day!

I remember playing this as a kid, being pretty good at video games then I still didn't manage to unlock the last 2-3 racers and laps though, so easy isn't what i'd call it! Was a fantastic game though, for kids since it really let you into the fantasy of being a podracer. Also some of the maps were very creative for the time. Asteroids zero gravity stuff especially :P

I loved this game so much. Played it non stop for ages.

good review and cool vid as always im a big n64 fan and played this on pc when i was little. now i got it for my n64 and love it even more. splitscreen is so much fun even tough it can get frustrating because of the grey mist

Oh jeez, you must be way better at racing games than I was as a kid. I remember playing this one a lot and finding it extremely challenging. Don't know that I ever beat all the races.

Best part of the game was Watto grunting the cantina music in the menus

This was one of the first games I have ever owned and played, alongside Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the Sega Genesis. I've gone back and played this game prior to recent (long before the Switch came out), and it still holds up today just fine.

I loved this game and i loved how u had to watch out for damage and how you had to repair it as u raced along

Never a star wars fan but this came with my n64 bundle my mum bought for my brother and i Xmas '99. Great memories

man, how i hate the swamp track and their close curves... but th e rest you just need to learn some corners and know when applied turbo and your will enjoy that blurry effect for speed.

At first it was just fun... Then I really started playing one day and saw how you customize your vehicle... It was great. It was like Beetle Adventure Racing. Lots of fun with more

I’ve played this recently on Switch. At 60fps in hd, it’s pretty awesome.

This was a awesome racer for the ninteno 64 this brings back good memories once again another awesome review gleen ^_^

Is nobody talking about the pod he was using at the start? Was it beta only and cut from the final game?

I remember Episode I well. I wasn't exposed to the hate it had until years later and to that I say I got what I wanted (space battles and lightsaber duels). Episode I Racer was a fun experience as a kid. Now that you mention it, Episode I Racer was a tad on the easy side especially once you have a decked out pod but me and my brothers played that game a lot once we got it. Even back then, I knew that Neva Kee's podracer technically had the most sound design to it. It had a fighter-like cockpit that offered great forward visibility and its engines were structurally attached to each other and the cockpit which allowed the podracer to be more controllable. Its design, in retrospect, also indicates how unregulated podracers and podracing was. It became my favorite despite it being slower than other podracers. Fun fact: Qui-Gon wasn't kidding when he said that podracing was very fast and very dangerous. In addition to the obvious potential for collisions at high speeds pods that used jet engines had to worry about FOD or foreign object damage due to their use in close proximity to the surface. One small rock can destroy an engine and put a pod out of the race. Luckily that wasn't simulated in the game but it would have made the Boonta Eve Classic very perilous.

Not related to the game. But i love this intro tune, please bring it back on your newer videos :)

Brilliant review Glenn, I did like the arcade version of this!

I'm surprised you didn't mention 2 player mode. That was half of my experience with the game. Also even as an adult I found a couple of the later tracks quite challenging. In particular, the track that had two levels in a metal scaffolding tube. I wasn't very good at staying on the top level, which gives you an advantage, and I didn't finish first on the track until I was able to pull this off.

Both the New movie and The game were honestly my favorite when I first saw and played them

Enjoying these reviews so far keep it up but have you, or going to, review Hybrid Heaven? I remember playing it when I was younger and thought it was good.

Have you played Racer Revenge on the Ps2? One of my favourite Star Wars games and a great sequel to this one

Actually the game does technically have weapons but only with Sebulba, in case you didn't know, Sebulba can shoot flames from the side of his engine and overheat the engines of any opponents, this is a reference to a deleted scene from the movie and Anakin also mentions it as he was once a victim to it

my left thumb is still burning. I grind this game so much fun back then.

Nice review dude. I just reviewed this game not too long ago on my other channel Nintendo64Fanatic64 , I have so many great memories with this game. The movie and this game is so memorable. I'm probably the only one that thinks Phantom Menace is my favorite Star Wars movie in the franchise, but I played this game for hours upon hours. One of my favorite racing games on the n64 and one of the best racing games of all time in my opinion. :D

I played this with my friends all the time, but it was always borrowed as were most of my games. Really enjoyed it, but it got harder late on. All the pod racers would zoom past you despite all far ahead you were.

I loved the newer Star Wars movies, although I watched 4, 5, 6 a million times I still love the newer ones too. Maybe its because I was very young when the new ones came up, but I loved them. Great review btw!!

Going to buy this tomorrow along with Xtreme G2 , NBA Live 99 and GT 64 :)

Hey Glenn :-) I echo your views on the movie... Never plate the game but I feel I would probably echo the same view on this also ! It's amazing what a brand can do to a game and this is a prime example ! Great review again mate :-)

Always loved this game as a kid. Just got a N64 again finally. First game I bought.

I played this back then. It was...ok. That custom controller looks insane! As for The Phantom Menace film, yeah I think it's flawed to.

I really liked it then and it's still decent today. This is one of the ex-rentals I bought from my local blockbuster when they were phasing out the N64 stuff

Greetings from earth.. Pilot wings is so cool. Shooting people into dart boards makes me happy. 😁😁😁

Thanks for Video! I agree with a lot of what you said, but with this exception. I felt like like a Ninja playing 'Shadows of the Empire' on Jedi Level, you know, one shot -one kill! And searching for the Secrets was bo much Fun! Here, Racers is really fascinating, the Nick Names of Players, then the names of the Avatars, well, it seemed to me that each Vehicle and Avatar drove quite differently. In short, Check the Default Value at very beginning, meaning that if you select a Vehicle with 'Repair' then all you have to do is 'Crash it 3 times on the very first Lap, let all of the other Drivers pass you, take your time and 'Sight See' and when you get to the End all of the Avatars will sit there and wait for you to cross first, then follow behind you to finish because the Default value works, you only need to drive fast if you select a vehicle with 'High Speed'. Again, if you select a car with 'Turning' then turn a lot on first lap and you will win the race, the Avatars will wait for you at the finishing line because you have already Won the Race! (You can't take too long to Finish because eventually they will Drive thru the Finish Line!) Third, they had Rogue Squadron a very beautiful laid out game that worked kind of the same way, the 'Default Values' worked. Now, after that they lost it, my opinion the games were Common Productions, Ha-ha! But you can still like a Common Game. Good Luck

Hey hey, just heard the Kimble Justice plug... found your channel from your comment on one of his videos mentioning the plug :-P

nice review as always

unlocking bozzie baranta was brutal. that damn ord ibana invitational track was impossible.

The graphics hold up fairly well for it's time, I enjoyed the fast pace and alien trash talk feature during each track. A solid 7.5/10 from me.

I played the living heck out of this game when I was a kid,Ah, a fun game; at the very least it was satisfying to blow up one of your engines and watch you spin around futility :P It was always so hard to get that secret at the beginning of the snow place,The Dreamcast version was the best version.

Gasgano was my favorite podracer!!!

I saw it with my friends dad, Phantom Menace was actually my first Star Wars movie, so no expectations at least. I was so stoked for this game.

Me and my brothers rented this game pretty often; which was strange because none of us were really Star Wars fans nor racing fans lol. But the game was fun.

Ugh. Nostalgia overload. This and rogue squadron was my jam as a kid.

Bought this as a teen with moneys i got from a short summerjob, dont even remember why i wanted it so much. But it was fun anyhow.

4:13 Player this game since it came out and the idea of powerups NEVER came to mind! Yes having to become familiar with the tracks makes the turbo thing more fun and challenging! Ebe Endicott is my #1

You're like a video game version of Oliver Harper! I love these reviews!

Oh man I loved this game as a kid. I think I was 10 at the time so it was kind of tailor made for me. I recall the Dreamcast version being much better though

neva kee was my favorite pod racer

I still have this game on my n64 and I love it. Though I will admit, it's not nearly as good as the arcade version. Also Glen, I have to ask, what happened with the footage on this? it's so bright. Did you forget to color-correct it?

I loved this game back in the day. If you haven't tried it, the Dreamcast version looks gorgeous via VGA.

For your review, did you play it on the hardest difficulty? I remember having a lot of fun and that it was pretty challenging beating 100% and took quite a while. But that was also almost 20 years ago (ugh) so I could be remembering it wrong...

It's so cool that you are committed to N64. The last cartridge based, fast loading system! Fork disks!

Not a huge Star Wars fan, but I played this at a cousins house back in the early 00's and it was quite a good game.

It has distinctive mechanics. The lighter pod racers can basically fly, and that doesn't even include the anti-grav sections.

Hahaha, love the Kimble Justice refence to the A-Z of licenced games

The moment I saw the Pod racing scene in the movie I thought 'This is going to be a game' and of course it was.

I remember having tons of fun racing my friends on this game.

Episode 1 Racer is by far one of my all time favorite racing games I loved the pc version and regularly played multi-player with my family via lan. I have not played the n64 version on an n64 but it lives on my phone full time for pod racing on the go. That said I do prefer the pc version due to it's cut scenes and music scores. it's a shame it's so hard to get it to work on a modern system though.

I loved this game and played it pretty much all the time. Not being a fan of star wars myself I really did not mind the lack of cut scenes etc. Great game.

Yes I remember buying this game...Though I thought it was quite hard at the time, didn't bother me though still had a blast playing it. The sense of speed that I got from it was great I remember

This was my favorite game on the N64 even though I hated the controller. Nice nod to Kim he is how I found you and I really hate the N64 yet I still watch your videos..

I love the intro, the retroware one

Episodes I, II and III are cinematic brilliance and the best in the entire series. And I was a kid in 1978 when IV came out.

Loved this game one of my favorites on the n64

i found this game rather challenging i got this game when i was young. and i hadnt beat it in the 15 years or so i had the game only beat it recently and it was rather challenging for me. unless im just pure garbage or something. I also found that i could only chose one racer that had a particular speed and handle to beat the game.