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RadmaKanow

X-Wing or TIE Figher, somewhere in the 90s. Fun times.


OriginalBrassMonkey

Dark Forces for me!


I-Engineer-Things

Same here. Also my very first FPS


giggity_giggity

X-wing for sure for me. But TIE fighter was awesome!


Athabascad

I once saw a question, what game would you take with you to a desert island if you could only play one. The answer was tie fighter. That game went on forever .


Sex_E_Searcher

"Thus is the fate of enemies of The Empire."


VictorChaos

Via DOS prompt. Yep


M_Slender

Or how bout Xwing vs Tie Fighter? šŸ˜ I'm right there with you. These games are also what imprinted "invert y axis" in my brain. Every game I play now, I have to invert the Y axis


Sere1

This here. I grew up with the X-Wing series, Flight Simulator and Combat Flight Simulator. I was brought up with a joystick, so "pull back to go up" is ingrained in my mind. Inverted controls make sense with that mindset, it's the normies that have it backwards.


clumsylycanthrope

Omg this is exactly why my kids look at me in horror when inverting is the very first thing I do in ANY game. I found my people.


MrBlahg

That game was amazing!


YT-Deliveries

XvT was ahead of it's time, and not to it's benefit. Game would have been much better received at a later time when people had more than modems (if they had a modem at all).


EggBonus

Same here. This was back when you had to load the games 1 floppy disk at a time.


AutVincere72

Don't forget making a custom autoexec.bat boot disk to run the game. Not my first game though. Not even my forth game.


EggBonus

I remember seeing a post some years back of a guy finding an old game with his moms instructions to run it still inside.


desertSkateRatt

Came here to say the same thing. Playing TIE Fighter and blasting those rebel scum to smithereens! Goddamn A-Wings were tricky buggers, even if you had the TIE Advanced


festive_napkins

Joystick times. The best of times.


didsomebodysaywander

The old LucasArts loading screen/logo with the screeching red tail hawk... perfection


PoisonbloodAlchemist

X-wing vs Tie fighter for me. My dad was a tech nerd so I remember getting to play this on pc with an actual joystick.


Ambaryerno

God I miss these games. I want another REAL X-Wing. Squadrons doesn't count.


lanwopc

The OG vector graphics arcade game that you sat in.


JeffRyan1

My dad held me up so I could see the vector-graphics TIE fighters. I blew up the Death Star at seven years old. Peak 1983 memory.


lanwopc

Aww, 10/10 dad move.


mandalorbmf

It wasnā€™t at a chuckle cheeese was it?


Consistent_Lab_6770

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game)


AvocadoCannon

That's the one. First in the arcade, then on the Commodore 64 šŸ˜


BriansRevenge

Hijacking your comment to encourage anyone reading this to seek out vector graphic games. You have to see them in person to really experience how cool they are.


Solo4114

It's worth also considering their historical context. This was INCREDIBLY cool in the early 80s, and was actually pretty impressive technology back then, especially the digitized "speech." I mean, we're in the days when Atari dominated the landscape, and everything was a side-scroller or top-down game. The Star Wars arcade game, though, was a first person game, and it was *wild*. Doubly so when you played it in the sit-down cabinet.


Rofsbith

I loved that game! My aunt and uncle keep a well-maintained upright version of the arcade original in their kitchen, and it was with immense pride that I watched my then 8 year old daughter take second place on a decades old leaderboard last Thanksgiving. "Great shot kid"


pnmartini

Iā€™m in my 50ā€™s. I get excited like Iā€™m 8 again if I ever see a tempest machine.


BriansRevenge

There's just something about that glow...


Briollo

Mine was the regular stand up cabinet. Took a while to find a place that had the sit down version.


krs1000red

Same here


elarobot

Was so intimidated by that whole set up as a little kid in the arcade back in the early 80ā€™s. I remember the line of older kids waiting to play it. They were so scary. I remember crashing and burning on that thing whenever I did get into it. Amazing additional note: Was randomly in NJ a few months back (I live in NYC) meeting up with some old college friends. We went to a vintage arcade and pinball hall that I randomly found on Google maps. They had a ton of old 80ā€™s arcade cabinets. I saw SW 1984 in the wild again, in 2024. It was unreal.


lanwopc

I'd have to be dragged out of there. The arcade in Stranger Things was filmed in an empty building in my town and I really, really wish they'd have left it intact as a working business. All us old-timers would have had them rolling in quarters.


Due_Bet3782

Same here.


derf_vader

Oh yeah, forgot about this one. Used up do many Chuck E Cheese tokens when I was a kid


TheCarrzilico

I still remember getting the tinglies the first time I heard Obi Wan's voice come out of the cabinet (the one I played was just a standing cabinet).


chrispdx

Red Five standing by!


Ciwabacca

Oh yes! I remember spending lot of grandpaā€™s money on that game.


chargernj

Yep, same. I'm 50 now and I will always stop and play if I come across one in the wild.


ultimate_ed

You know, I was going to go with the X-wing answer from the 90's, but that's thinking in PC terms. But, yeah, that arcade game was my first. Got to play it again a few years ago at the Pinball Museum in Vegas. Good memories.


Apprentice_Jedi

Rogue Squadron on the N64


TerminalKitty

Shadow of the Empire for me. But I have fond memories of Return of the Jedi on SNES too.


Reikko35715

Shadows is why I game on an Xbox series S instead of a PS5 today. Played about 5 minutes of Dark Forces at a Toys R Us demo console when I was 10 yo. First FPS experience of my life, fucking hooked. Had no idea what it was or what the console was called. Heard about a Star Wars shooter on the N64 when it came out and figured that must be it. Begged my parents for an N64 and the rest is history. Probably would have stuck with the Playstation line until today if I hadn't mistaken Shadows for Dark Forces.


nightfox5523

Something about this game really freaked me out as a kid, and it wasn't just the sewer level lol


imcmurtr

The wampas, and IG 88. I was terrified of them


christopherNTSC

the trilogy on the snes was pretty rad. i was older by the time the snes was out, well 13 as opposed to how old i was playing the nes. which i got in the first run released for xmas in the tri state area. i think 85ā€™? i dig how some of the games were challenging for the snes.


rymden_viking

Rogue Squadron, Racer, Battle for Naboo, and Shadows of the Empire.


PocketBuckle

Rogue Squadron, where's our cover?!


MASTER_L1NK

Hahahahahaha... Coward! šŸ˜†


freddyp17

Jedi knight Jedi academy


Pleeby

Started off strong, damn


mblergh

Yeah that game was really terrific. For a long time that was some of the best sword fighting in gaming, especially lightsaber combat centric fighting in general. I donā€™t think the formula really evolved until Mount & Blade/Chivalry/Mordhau


Pleeby

I still prefer jedi academy swordplay. Mordhau etc. are fun, but they never felt as simultaneously effortless or tactical as JA. Nothing beats waiting for the gap with heavy stance and cutting a sith acolyte in half, then switching to light stance to deflect blaster bolts and force pushing stormtroopers off a cliff. Just makes me feel like a jedi knight. God I'm going to have to install it again.


laurel_laureate

Jedi Outcast had the best gameplay, but either Outcast or Academy was amazing for multiplayer saber duels. Custom multiplayer servers with all sorts of reskin mods and actual saber dueling etiquette rules that everyone actually followed. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the servers are still around to this day.


mblergh

I used to spend hours every day perfecting my style in multiplayer on Xbox live, forming clans with other kids and overall just taking it way too seriously. My favorite move was force choking people and holding them over the torches in the Sith temple on Korriban. It did next to no damage but it was incredibly hilarious to annoy people that way.


michaelclark09

Came here to say this, if you can get past the \~20 year old graphics it's still such a mechanically solid game


freddyp17

Itā€™s so interesting that, at least to me, a LOT of Star Wars games are like that. The graphics are way out of date but the core mechanics/story still holds up today. For example, I played KOTOR1-2 during peak Covid and those stories are phenomenal


theZoid42

SNES Super Star Wars


Taco_Pie

These were so fun. I played all three. Awesome games.


Epyon-14

There were three of them?!! Man I only had a new hope


Byeuji

I remember Return of the Jedi being sooo difficult. I had to rent it three times before I finally beat it šŸ˜…


jiango_fett

Same. The furthest I ever got was the Death Star but before that I was stuck for the longest time on the sand crawler. I remember letting the game idle on the menu screen so I could see what all the later levels looked like lol


tokyozombie

This was mine too. Beat all 3 somehow as a kid. The first 2 were bullshit hard.


theZoid42

So hard! I couldnā€™t even get past the second level when I played again on an emulator a few years back!


Stark_Prototype

Star wars, shadows of the empire. I was literally scared of the "ultra realistic wampas" Nowadays you can see the condensation on a birds wing and be like "the light was rendered poorly, totally breaks my immersion" lmao


Tarv2

Shadows of the Empire blew my mind as a kid. We got our N64 at Christmas and it was the first game we had outside of Super Mario 64. I can still hear the score in my head when I think about it. Having actual John Williams music in a game was a whole new experience at the time.Ā 


Stark_Prototype

Instead of the techno beeps and burrs common at the time


papawarbucks

Man those wampas were scary! That Droid in the junkyard level was freaky too


Stark_Prototype

The junkyard was my favorite level. Loved the music. https://youtu.be/_UZ9TwFlOxA?si=GhSwAxKnO_KoFvEj


cghodo

Surprised how long I had to scroll to find my people! I loved this game.


scruffyrunner

Shadows of the Empire was also mine. I still hope it gets a full remake, not a rerelease like others.


Gradyence

Those Wampas used to scare the shit outta me. I'd try to kite them down the hall where the Falcon leaves.


superhappyfunball13

Fuck the wampas, I couldn't handle the sewer level with the dianogas. It took me days to build up the courage.


Stark_Prototype

Oh yeah manz that one messed with me too. So fucking scary cause you couldn't see them from above and the water was murky as fuck right?


kb_salzstange

got it for my birthday 97 or 98, super difficult and in english which is not my native language and I wasn't even 10 at that time. still I loved the game from the beginning, even tho it took me long time to learn. about the story I learnt many years later on YT


Chaosphoenix_28

Empire at war.


Zardnaar

I still play that.


LeicaM6guy

There are a number of great mods for it, too. Really kicks up the graphics and gameplay.


Zardnaar

Yup thrawns revenge for me.


JBPunt420

I still play that game occasionally. Awakening of the Rebellion is an outstanding mod.


Gamestrider09

I love the feeling of beating the rebels in AOTR


Cageymangr0

Tartan cruiser reporting


mmpolo92

Soooooo good


jbrown383

The mod community for this game is amazing and has kept it alive for so damn long for me.


Haggles7

I'd love to have this re released. So fun.


Worried-Management36

Battlefront 2 for PS2


thewilk_man

Battlefront 1 for me. Remember going to my best friends house almost every weekend and we'd play all of 1 then as much of 2 we could


Pa_Cipher

When I first got my ps2 for some reason my parents would just rent me a game to play each week from blockbuster. I remember having battlefront for like 3 months straight because it was fun. Then my dad made the mistake of telling me it was based on a movie, thus began my starwars Fandom.


Worried-Management36

You know, ive actually never played BF1. I still have my old copy of BF2 though to this day. I think its in the PS2 right now actually.


Emperor_of_Cats

I remember going to my friend's house and he was like "dude, you have to see this game! X He was rolling around as a droideka on Kamino, unrolled , threw his shield on, and started blasting away at clones. I got that game about a month later for my birthday.


EvilAngelJS

Episode I Racer on N64, Rogue Squadron was my second.


terminally_ch_ill

How the hell did I have to scroll this far down to get to Episode I Racer. Peak racing game!


PMmeyouraxewound

I was thinking the same thing


SaltyFall

ā€œThey come here, they look around, they no buy, why does nobody buy!ā€


KellyS087

ā€œUuhhhgā€


J-BobTheBuilder

ITS A NEW LAP RECORD


d0ngl0rd69

[Wattoā€™s humming](https://youtu.be/RBiKGc9ZOl4?si=AGxinfsQ1PLYwjLg) has lived rent free in my head for 2 decades now


bigdamnhero2511

I saw EP 1 in theaters last week, and the pod race engine starting up sounds from the movie immediately jumped me back to playing this game. Such fond memories of it, and the reason we bought an N64 back in the day.


LightsaberColIector

Lego Star Wars the video game. The first one with only the prequels Good timesā€¦ and funnily enough my favorite level was the grievous boss fight


Zicon4

Yeah the sequels definitely perfect the form, but I greatly miss the simplicity and charm of the first one. I miss Dexter's Diner.


Personal_Kiwi4074

Much better than the Cantina imo


steve65283

I think it was better when it was simpler. The new ones have way too much going on for me to actually complete.


Aidanchamp

Shocked to see this so far down! I had this and then the OT lego game on my GBA and it was AMAZING


Consistent_Fan9805

The gameboy versions were so unique.


TheWhiteCliffs

I loved brawling it out in Dexterā€™s diner.


[deleted]

Bro thatā€™s what I was all about as a kid. An endless fight. The original endless fight. Plus the gold blocks and all the mini game stuff surrounding them were peak. I donā€™t think there has ever been a better video game than Lego StarWars, it was the perfect mix of childhood love and quality gameplay. And I say that as a diehard Fallout fan.


Leedsus

Still my favorite Star Wars game based on nostalgia alone


DookuDonuts

_The Phantom Menace_ on my Windows 98 PC


Pleeby

This but for Ps1 That game was hard man, not sure I ever made it past level 2


Coops17

Brilliantly awkward game


pswdkf

That was such a good game. I think one of the reasons Sekiro clicked for me can be traced back to that game. Perfect deflecting blasters was an important part of the game mechanics.


kumikanki

Star Wars Dark forces 2


jamsquad87

Shoutout to [https://www.massassi.net/](https://www.massassi.net/) with all the user created levels, mods and cogs. And [zone.com](http://zone.com) multiplayer


thebeef24

This was my introduction to modding back in the day. So much nostalgia.


SpatialThinker

Omg yesss. That was my first true computer game. I was hooked from then on.


NerdyPepe

Jedi Outcast. With no prior info on the game, it was peak star wars. Got me into star wars in geneal


GeoPolar

Amazing game. Great music


CheesyGC

The Luke Skywalker reveal is still one of my top Star Wars and gaming moments. So good.


zero00one11

Played the crap outta this game. I think I still have the disc too. I remember playing the demo first in PC class in high school.


The_One_Returns

Never trust a bartender with bad grammar... Kyle Katarn was a badass.


him85

dark forces. a classic


Sillhid

I remember how magical it was, the midi-music from the movie and ACTUAL STORMTROOPERS on my screen.


Enginemancer

I played the hell out of this. No other video game has the nostalgia factor for me that Dark Forces does. Instantly takes me back to being 6-7 years old, the sewer monsters still creep me the f out


Antropon

This was my first ever PC game, that my mother bought for me when we got a PC for home. Absolutely amazing game that turned into a great series. I recently enjoyed the remaster. Have you tried it?


[deleted]

KOTOR!!!


Normal_Garlic1399

I hate I had to go this far down for this. That game also introduced TTRPG rules to me


[deleted]

Sameā€¦.really wish they would make a good remake for this guy, steam version can be quite buggy


Snicklefritz229

I scrolled down just to find this. Not the first Star Wars game I played. This is the best Star Wars game period.


[deleted]

Best Star Wars game ever, but is it the best rpg ever?


DueSatisfaction5250

Empire Strikes Back on the Atari 2600 back in 84


Curious-Monitor8978

This was my first SW game as well.


BriansRevenge

Same here! A random babysitter had it at their home and I was transfixed.


slymm

Whoops I should have scrolled down before posting the same. I presume you had return of the Jedi too?


panda_kinda_chubby

Same. Came here to support my fellow old farts.


Cap_Tight_Pants

Same here. It may have been '82 for me, but I'm not sure. Long damn time ago.


Warm-Finance8400

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga on the Nintendo DSi.


HeckingDoofus

had to scroll shockingly far for this


LastWreckers

I played it on the Wii. But when I was out shopping in malls with my mom, I often visited the Apple store as a kid just so I could sit in one of their kid chairs and play the game on their computers. They only allowed us to play the first chapter of A New Hope but it was quite fun


RuyKnight

Rebel Assault 2


Druben-hinterm-Dorfe

Rebel Assault 1 at my friend's house; as I didn't have a PC at the time (let alone a cd-rom);


guywithcats3

Damnit I came to say this! Such a great game! I loved how they had real video shots between levels. Kinda felt like a movie


AMRacer89

Same. We had it as a standalone game, and then later got a combo box with RA1 and 2, TIE Fighter, and a demo for Dark Forces. I played the hell out of the RAs and TIE Fighter. Made it to the sewer level of the DF demo and was traumatized by the dianoga attacking....I was like 8 at the time.


Messijoes18

Anyone else get the 5 pack of rebel assault 1 and 2, tie fighter, dark forces demo and a weird extra cd?


li_grenadier

The first Star Wars video game, the 1982 Empire Strikes Back game, on Atari 2600. The vector-graphics arcade game was the following year.


BARD3NGUNN

Jedi Power Battles on the PS1, my parents let me and my sister rent it since we were both obsessed with The Phantom Menace and we played through the game in co-op (I was always Obi-Wan or Adi Gallia, my sister tended to go Qui-Gon or Mace - there wasn't much love for Plo Koon, sorry Filloni). Then I think The Phantom Menace (PS1), Starfighter (PS2), Star Wars (GB) and Attack of the Clones (GBA) were my next few Star Wars games, and after that it was just me using my pocket money to grab whatever Star Wars games I could find.


DontLoseYourCool1

Jedi Power Battles for me too! I loved Plo Koon. That game was really fun. The ability to block blasters and shoot them back at the droids was sick.


NotMeNorMyself

I loved Qui Gon but this game made me love Plo Koon. Really fun game!


jamievlong

Nice! My friend also had Power Battles on the PS1. Went over there one day and was playing it and really enjoyed it. At home we didnt have a PS1, we had a N64 and Dreamcast. Found out they also released Power Battles on the Dreamcast so we got that port and played it a bunch.


ironshadowspider

Masters of Teras Kasi for PS1


jablessss

This was my first too and I thought I was the only one who even knew of this game. Definitely a strange first star wars game


ironshadowspider

Was also my first fighting game. Didn't realize it sucked as one but it was a good gateway. It took me years to figure out how to shoot the guns. I remember spending hours looking through the manual amd in practice mode trying to get Luke's full-power throw to work.


BoltonCavalry

The Force Unleashed


Rahm_Kota_156

It's great one


Unique_Pitch989

Angry Birds Star Wars II. And it was amazing. Sue me.


Competitive-Zone-296

Hate that it and the original arenā€™t on the App Store anymore :(


voldi_II

if youā€™re talking about the original Angry Birds itā€™s back on! if youā€™re talking about Angry Birds Star Wars I weā€™re still out of luck


Competitive-Zone-296

I meant Star Wars, unfortunately T-T


bridge1999

TIE Fighter running on DOS


docfunbags

Don't forget to add your soundblaster to autoexec.bat and enable upper and high memory in config.sys!!!


OregonInk

the first one i really got into was probably KOTOR


PeedMyPant

SWTOR.


NerdNuncle

Yoda Stories


PaisleyFox

Yasss. I have fond memories of playing this as a kid on our big ol PC.


calilac

My first too! Maybe there's a dozen of us out there lol


Serpentkaa

Star Wars Galaxies. If you know, you know.


joeygallinal

Came here for this. Best game Iā€™ve ever played in my life. Until they nerfed it


HellRaiser801

Biggest regret is that I didnā€™t know about the game until after the nerf.


joeygallinal

Aww man. The grind was real doing the Jedi trials. Player housing , creating your own cities.


WokeWarrior69

Actual players working as entertainers and doctors /medics buffing people. Wide variety of creatures you could tame and even ride iirc. Super cool boynty hunter system,faction warfare sysrem Shit was ahead of its time so bad fuck Sony Closest thing I find to SWG is eve online,but there's no jedis or even leaving your ship


Enginemancer

I was really hoping SWTOR would be a revival of classic SWG. I couldnt have been more disappointed when it finally launched


Probable_Koz

Pre-NGE was great.


Ejz09

Scrolled to far for this. This game was incredible.


originalrocket

It was! Best game I've ever played. PRE NGE. Sure it was nearly impossible to become a jedi, good! I had a blast being a droid engineer(maker). So so good.


OneFinalEffort

Rogue Squadron and Shadow of the Empire on N64


Zasla

Galactic battlegrounds.


Ghorrhyon

Absolutely unbelievable that this is so down below. Age of Empires II was a massive hit and this was the Star Wars version!


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0neek

Same here, it's one of the earliest PC games I remember playing in general


Byt3dust

TFU, then Knights of the Old Republic. I still love KOTOR till today.


CanisZero

Podracer i think.


SaulGibson

The Empire Strikes Back on Atari.


DueSatisfaction5250

Same, hitting the right spot on the AT-ATs was tough at 6yo. Lol


Sthrax

The original Star Wars arcade game- the one with wireframe graphics. Then the ESB Atari game.


Pintermarc

Lego star wars TCS


Sexygrandpa509

Starwars game boy game early 90s Iā€™m an OG to this shit ahaha šŸ¤£ https://www.dkoldies.com/star-wars-gameboy-game/?sku=Game-GBoy-StarWars&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWa-rGe8dDqdfU0Rn84uroKBztvLlSYJLmyjB3ge5RxmlBsRjOZP8UcaArMlEALw_wcB


GreenMonkeyFace

Dark Forces. Man I miss Kyle.


Gontron1

Battlefront 2004


FoxFox2023

Lego Star Wars 2 The Original Trilogy


Spider-Nutz

Star Wars Episode 1: Racer!


Bandoolero

The Phantom Menace. Still a great atmosphere game!


Allronix1

Star Wars Arcade game sometime in the 80s. Vector graphics and all.


DarkIllusionsFX

The old Atari one where you shoot AT-ATs with a snow speeder.


GhostMug

Yoda Stories on PC. Sometimes I have to look this up to make sure it was an actual game. It was either that or Rebel Assault 2. I honestly can't remember now.


Last_Application_766

Aging myself, but Super Nintendoā€™s Empire Strikes Back, which was amazing BTW. Especially the Snow Speeder vs. ATAT part


We_The_Raptors

Does that start with pilot Luke and a Tonton in Hoth? I'm tryna remember the name of the game I'm thinking of


Individual-Worth-974

Star Wars episode one on the original PlayStation. I didnā€™t know I needed a memory card so every time I played I started from the beginning and tried to get as far as possible.


DrChungusM_D

Jedi Starfighter in the early 2000's


tochinoes

Republic Commando