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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: Episode 73: Star Wars Episode I: Racer
Description: Star Wars: Podracer launched with a bang. It wasn’t the first Star Wars game, but it promised something that the world had been waiting for 16 years: a new movie. With only a few short segments of the film at their disposal, the in-house LucasArts Team designed a racing game - aiming to not only replicate the environments, but even the imaginary physics of the vehicles. The fact that they produced something uncannily similar to the pod racing scene from the movie is worthy of celebration in and of itself.But can it hold up all these years...