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You can fight them by swinging your light sabre to reflect the laser beams back at them. At the start of the game you take control of Obi-Wan Kenobi, with a third-person view, and your trade negotiations get interrupted by some poison gas and killer robots firing lasers at you. And yet I had one of my less fun struggles to find a version I could play, and have been unable to get any pictures beyond the photo above. It was one of the most successful Star Wars games so far, and did well past the point where word of mouth was out there about how it played. The Phantom Menace, on the other hand, spent its first two weeks at UK #1 before returning to the top for a third week after an interruption for the Sega Dreamcast’s launch week. None of those games got anywhere near the top of the charts.
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That puts it in the elevated company of: Star Wars Chess Star Wars: Behind the Magic, which was not even really a game as such but an interactive CD-ROM and the reportedly terrible Star Wars: Yoda Stories. The Phantom Menace is not available to buy on Steam.
#Star wars episode i the phantom menace video game Pc#
That’s been one of the upsides of so many of the PC games I’ve had to play being Star Wars ones – at least I’ve been able to rely on it being easy to do so. Of those seventeen, fourteen are available to buy on Steam now. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace was, best as I can tell, the seventeenth Star Wars game LucasArts released for PC. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (Big Ape/LucasArts, PC, 1999)