1999’s Star Wars Episode I: Racer has received a release date – Aspyr Media will not make the console owners wait a lot.

StarWars.com has an interview with the developers, and here, they explained how they improved the controls that might be a little troublesome by today (even though they were fine in 1999). „Star Wars Episode I: Racer originally came out in an interesting time for controllers. We were really starting to see interesting things—rumble, multiple analogue sticks. Even the shape of the Nintendo 64 controller. So it’s sort of fitting that when you look at controls today, we’re seeing the same thing. Like the Switch Joy-Cons.

You really want to make sure that the game plays well and embraces as much of the variations as possible for them. So we’ve done a lot of work to make sure that the game feels comfortable in all configurations, including playing with each individual Joy-Con. The team here is a big believer that the best control scheme is the one you don’t ever think about and that philosophy really permeates everything we’ve done with the controls,” James Vicari, the producer of Star Wars Episode I: Racer said.

The game has 25 playable racers including Anakin Skywalker, Sebulba, and Ratts Tyerell. The race tracks are spanning eight unique worlds including Tatooine, Baroonda, and Malastare. The PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo Switch both have split-screen multiplayer, and the Switch version also offers LAN multiplayer.

Star Wars Episode I: Racer launched on May 18 (and on June 4 in Europe) on Nintendo 64 and PC, followed by a Game Boy Color and a Macintosh port in December. The Dreamcast got it in April/August 2000. Now, Aspyr brings the original over to the Nintendo Switch and the PlayStation 4 on May 12. The price will be 15 dollars. Perhaps everything was better in the past. Including Star Wars.

Source: Gematsu

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