Star Wars DroidWorks: Robot Abomination Simulator

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Lucas Learning's first edutainment game from 1998! Nobody needed to see what it'd look like if beloved Star Wars droids had a terrifying lovechild together, but here you can. Shame that it's also a bit broken.
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  • @HistoricaHungarica
    @HistoricaHungarica7 жыл бұрын

    STAY ON TARGET!

  • @fishnutter5219

    @fishnutter5219

    7 жыл бұрын

    There's... two many of them!

  • @OdaSwifteye

    @OdaSwifteye

    7 жыл бұрын

    HistoricaHungarica They came from, behind!

  • @androzani

    @androzani

    7 жыл бұрын

    LOOSEN UP!!! *orgasm*

  • @Neverhoodian

    @Neverhoodian

    7 жыл бұрын

    "It's a hit?!" "Negative negative, it didn't go in..."

  • @Jetbat

    @Jetbat

    7 жыл бұрын

    lgr is low key hilarious 😂

  • @Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets
    @Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets7 жыл бұрын

    Jar Jar's Journey was released in 1999, the same year as Episode 1. It looks like they were REALLY counting on Anakin and Jar Jar being popular.

  • @LGR

    @LGR

    7 жыл бұрын

    Among the target demographic of "children ages 4 and up," they were quite popular indeed and they sold a ton of stuff. Folks seem to overlook that large portions of Star Wars was made for kids, especially the prequels.

  • @YarugumaSou

    @YarugumaSou

    7 жыл бұрын

    So we adults ruin all the fun then?

  • @PokettoManStar

    @PokettoManStar

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes, the adults ruined it. I was born in 1993, TPM was my foundation for understanding the Star Wars Universe, but I fell out of that interest because you couldn't talk about TPM unless you wanted to parrot a list of ~5 basic complaints. George always saw Star Wars as 'just a kids thing', people forget that when they look back to the original films and fail to discount the lens of childhood which it was first seen through.

  • @Cythil

    @Cythil

    7 жыл бұрын

    I would say it was a lack of focus that ruin it. I do actually like that Star Wars can be for kids. But you need to weight it right. (And besides to me Jar Jar did not really ruin Star Wars. The telling of Anakins fall was so badly done that this really ruined the prequels. I mean that love story was at best creepy and at worst totally devoid of any emotion at all.) Star Wars is such a expansive world of fantasy that you can tell many stories. Some stories can be aimed more for kids. And other can target a more adult audience. I think the many Star Wars games that where made showed pretty well how wide you can go. The many ways you could explore this fictional universe.

  • @Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets

    @Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets

    7 жыл бұрын

    I was 11 when I saw it in theatres. I'm actually surprised that Jar Jar and Anakin were popular with kids since I remember even the younger kids in the audience not liking them. They were more mesmerized by the lights art fights and the space battles. Oh and the pod racing. Can't forget the pod racing.

  • @TaranVH
    @TaranVH7 жыл бұрын

    I loved this game. And never had to deal with weird physics glitches!

  • @chrisfratz

    @chrisfratz

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe the computer you had at the time was fitted with a magical set of hardware that made the game function properly

  • @Mr.guy24

    @Mr.guy24

    2 жыл бұрын

    You probably had the imac

  • @RichardGQue

    @RichardGQue

    2 жыл бұрын

    I didn't have any issues bad enough to have remembered either. I think it worked better if you had just the right hardware, and some of us didn't know how lucky we were.

  • @Anubis1101

    @Anubis1101

    2 жыл бұрын

    yea same i had it on my windows pc at home AND got my 4th grade teacher to let me install it on the mac at school, never had any issues gotta be some kinda compatibility issue

  • @AlcomIsst

    @AlcomIsst

    Жыл бұрын

    It's based on framerate. The physics work fine at ~30fps. At 60fps and beyond, ramps become increasingly impassible.

  • @JohnGabrielUk
    @JohnGabrielUk7 жыл бұрын

    Well, they missed a golden opportunity by not calling it LucasSmarts...

  • @vanillasadboi

    @vanillasadboi

    7 жыл бұрын

    Classic

  • @TheDemocrab

    @TheDemocrab

    5 жыл бұрын

    As long as it's not LucasSharts.

  • @KoopaMedia64

    @KoopaMedia64

    4 жыл бұрын

    I never even noticed that. Nice

  • @Jakepearl13

    @Jakepearl13

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh my god youre right

  • @TheChaosDragoness
    @TheChaosDragoness7 жыл бұрын

    That box is brighter than my future.

  • @Demonskunk

    @Demonskunk

    7 жыл бұрын

    The Chaos Dragoness yeah, if you're rolling with team skull!

  • @PeterBenedetto
    @PeterBenedetto7 жыл бұрын

    Droidworks is actually a thing a Disney World. You can basically build all of these and take them home as souvenirs. :)

  • @KuraIthys

    @KuraIthys

    7 жыл бұрын

    Democritus86 If the parts are mix and match they wouldn't need 3d printers, just stocks of all the parts. That's still cheaper and more efficient at large enough scales.

  • @PeterBenedetto

    @PeterBenedetto

    7 жыл бұрын

    Democritus86 no they just have tons of parts to pick from

  • @PeterBenedetto

    @PeterBenedetto

    7 жыл бұрын

    A person | Yeah. They do it at Disneyland in California as well.

  • @TheJkidd222

    @TheJkidd222

    7 жыл бұрын

    3D printing anything even the smallest thing takes a very long time, it would not be time or cost effective. They are best really for one of things at the minute

  • @sheilaolfieway1885

    @sheilaolfieway1885

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@aperson854 yes world is Florida Land is California.

  • @tfGalvatron1
    @tfGalvatron17 жыл бұрын

    oh man, this game makes me want a spore game, but with robots instead of creatures.

  • @LGR

    @LGR

    7 жыл бұрын

    Or dude, imagine a game like Kerbal Space Program or Besiege with Star Wars droid items. It'd be fantastic with a solid physics engine.

  • @tfGalvatron1

    @tfGalvatron1

    7 жыл бұрын

    Lazy Game Reviews totally! that'd be awesome!

  • @Cythil

    @Cythil

    7 жыл бұрын

    I do hope they officially add more robotics to KSP. But there tons of good mods for that.

  • @CybeargPlays

    @CybeargPlays

    7 жыл бұрын

    Do you think it HAS to be Star Wars droids? I mean, obviously that would add a delicious layer of charm to it all, but since using the Star Wars IP is impossible these days, could something that's basically a functional Droidworks without the glitches and Star Wars veneer still work?

  • @WillcraftAnimations

    @WillcraftAnimations

    7 жыл бұрын

    That can to some degree be achieved with mods. I tried it. But yeah, doesn't really work since it's still Spore... They still hatch from eggs and don't do robot things and all that. But it was fun to build semi-robot creatures in the Creature Creator. ...Of course the downside was that the game would, in ordinary Spore fashion, throw my robot creatures into my worlds. In the Tribal Phase my tribe was always being terrorized by "wild animals" in the form of flying death machines with laser cannons for arms.

  • @codenamegamma
    @codenamegamma7 жыл бұрын

    Jawa in the sky. I can go twice as high. Take a look. What's in a droid. It's Starwars DroidWorks!

  • @Kaze_Horosha
    @Kaze_Horosha7 жыл бұрын

    FWIW, many of the engine bugs were far less severe on hardware existent at the time. The engine just lost the gamble on forward compatibility. (especially the edge-between-two-surfaces issue) The physics bugs were MUCH less present on W98SE and a P3 era system.

  • @SierraSierraFoxtrot

    @SierraSierraFoxtrot

    5 жыл бұрын

    I played it aeons aho when it was already old but still ran perfectly and it was fantastic. The level design is almost on par with Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2.

  • @gearhead743

    @gearhead743

    5 жыл бұрын

    talking about bugs in a physics-based educational game, this man must have never played Kerbal Space Program

  • @Skorpeonismyrealname

    @Skorpeonismyrealname

    5 жыл бұрын

    I got nostalgic when first watching this, and rooted through my old CDs to see if I still had the copy from childhood. Didn't find it, my older brother has it, but he sent me a copy of the iso. Playing it on modern computers was like liding while recording, then speeding up the footage by about seven times. So, yeah, you need old hardware (or software limiters to make high tech appear old) to play this game, which is unfortunate. I wonder if Steam could get the rights to publish it alongside the other old LucasArts games...

  • @Joesolo13

    @Joesolo13

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gearhead743 Those aren't glitches Learning how to contend with the eldritch abomination that is the Kraken is a core gameplay feature

  • @samanthawiechert1561

    @samanthawiechert1561

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Skorpeonismyrealname I just replayed it this weekend. You can try and use the program dxwnd. The main problem with the physics is that these are tied to the fps. So you can set a delay between the frames with dxwnd and you are good to go. I had some very minor bugs but nothing gamebreaking at all. Played it through in one go :)

  • @Coin945
    @Coin9457 жыл бұрын

    I was the guy who wrote the Wikipedia article on this game and got it featured on the main page. So stoked to see you give it your own spin. :D

  • @pauljones3017

    @pauljones3017

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your service (against ignorance)!

  • @tomaszmagierowski2166

    @tomaszmagierowski2166

    9 күн бұрын

    It's amazing how often I look up a Wikipedia account and see that it's blocked

  • @TheWRYYYYYYY
    @TheWRYYYYYYY7 жыл бұрын

    I had and still have this game! I remember I enjoyed building droids way more than playing the actual game (that could be because English isn't my native language, and so as a kid I had almost no idea what I was supposed to do :D) ...I also remember the terrifying assassin droid you had to run away from in some mission. That thing appearing out of nowhere scared the shit out of me every time.

  • @darthjimmi1481

    @darthjimmi1481

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheWRYYYYYYY i never even finished the training missions xD

  • @Kishmond

    @Kishmond

    6 жыл бұрын

    I was also terrified of the assassin droids. I did not usually leave the testing zone.

  • @hal5699

    @hal5699

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is so funny I was terrified of the droids too! I remember that once I had to do those missions, I couldn't stop looking behind me or the feeling of terror. Then, when I would replay the other missions I was still scared that it could be around a corner. I'm so happy that I wasn't the only scared kid!

  • @KoopaMedia64

    @KoopaMedia64

    4 жыл бұрын

    Droid works was always secretly a horror game

  • @ShiningSakura

    @ShiningSakura

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear I wasn't the only one terrified by the assassin droid.... that thing is made of nightmares. But to my credit I did finish the mission. It took alot of mental buildup to do it, but I did it. Modern day horror games have nothing on that sinister droid.

  • @shanemczane6725
    @shanemczane67257 жыл бұрын

    Oh god, this was one of the very few games I had played as a kid. I don't know if I'll be able to handle this nostalgia bomb.

  • @DeltaOps3

    @DeltaOps3

    6 жыл бұрын

    Shane McZane right

  • @kennan10101
    @kennan101017 жыл бұрын

    LGR is such a gem on youtube. Extremely simple format with excellent content and the result is a wonderful channel that has everything that a youtube channel should have with no extra crap.

  • @Stumpfs
    @Stumpfs7 жыл бұрын

    I often fall asleep to your great videos at night, and not due to boredom either. You have the perfect soothing narrator voice!

  • @CheeseburgerFreedomMan
    @CheeseburgerFreedomMan7 жыл бұрын

    Damn, that box has more colors than my soul

  • @TheNinToaster

    @TheNinToaster

    7 жыл бұрын

    Cheeseburger Freedom Man Rip

  • @ChlorideCull

    @ChlorideCull

    7 жыл бұрын

    souls don't have colors, I think

  • @CheeseburgerFreedomMan

    @CheeseburgerFreedomMan

    7 жыл бұрын

    Dammit, should've said that the box is brighter than my soul

  • @F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R

    @F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R

    7 жыл бұрын

    Your soul is RED WHITE'N'BLUE

  • @ink3988

    @ink3988

    7 жыл бұрын

    Cheeseburger Freedom Man It would have more colours than mine as well, if I had one. Also, I hope you win in 2020. LEGALISATION OF WEED!

  • @Vvardenfell_Outlander
    @Vvardenfell_Outlander7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for saving my morning.

  • @LGR

    @LGR

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching!

  • @maxmetalknight
    @maxmetalknight7 жыл бұрын

    Duuude, I want A Jar Jar's Journey review sooo bad! :D

  • @virg0_lem0nade

    @virg0_lem0nade

    7 жыл бұрын

    maxmetalknight agreed

  • @maxmetalknight

    @maxmetalknight

    7 жыл бұрын

    I never got my Jar Jar cartoon, that Lucas promised, so at least there's that :D

  • @indeimaus
    @indeimaus7 жыл бұрын

    Oh man, I remember playing this game as a kid

  • @manospondylus4896
    @manospondylus48967 жыл бұрын

    Damn, I miss the times when game packages had a lot of content and effort put into them. Today you don't even get a manual.

  • @HerrSchrodinger

    @HerrSchrodinger

    5 жыл бұрын

    You are lucky to even get meaningful physical media sometimes. MGSV's PC version came with a DVD case with a printed code on a sticker inside of it.

  • @sosomadman

    @sosomadman

    5 жыл бұрын

    I want my gaming manuals! No one reads the read me, I want a hard back instruction booklet I can fap over on the bus home from town!

  • @420sakura1

    @420sakura1

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sosomadman pay extra.

  • @sheilaolfieway1885

    @sheilaolfieway1885

    4 жыл бұрын

    some computer parts don't even come with a full manual, heck my chair had two seperate instructions one for the chair and ONE for the arm rest pieces which the chair instructions EXPECTED You to know and already have the 3 part sets of the armrest already built...

  • @LegallyBlindGamer7926
    @LegallyBlindGamer79267 жыл бұрын

    This game is almost like a spiritual predecessor to Kerbal Space Program. You build something to accomplish a particular goal, then try to do it with what you built. If anything goes wrong, you iterate on your design until you get it right.

  • @LGR

    @LGR

    7 жыл бұрын

    The game Besiege is quite similar as well. It's definitely a subgenre that's taken off in recent years!

  • @DogweIder

    @DogweIder

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ryan Rardin I would say it's more like Spore

  • @mvl71

    @mvl71

    7 жыл бұрын

    I just bought Besiege the other day. A friend showed me _Kerbal Space Program_ (awesome game btw, check it out, you'll like it) and that reminded me of you dabbling with Besiege some months ago. It's now just over €5 on Steam. Get it while it's cheap! [/shameless plug]

  • @csmlyly5736

    @csmlyly5736

    5 жыл бұрын

    Also Robocraft

  • @atomicthumbsV2
    @atomicthumbsV27 жыл бұрын

    jawas live in the desert because they're looking for a hot time lucas learning, WHAT

  • @jimshoos5272
    @jimshoos5272 Жыл бұрын

    @7:33 I laughed harder at this part than almost any other youtube video ever. that was great

  • @kadelcoakley5907
    @kadelcoakley59077 жыл бұрын

    Awesome memories from this game, I do remember kind of not really being able to beat any levels because of frustrating glitches. But I was just a Star Wars loving kid just enjoying building and driving around droids. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

  • @leleedler
    @leleedler7 жыл бұрын

    "Stay on target!" Funny enough I totally remember playing this in elementary school, very faintly though. I haven't thought of this until today.

  • @julien2983
    @julien29837 жыл бұрын

    Oh man I had this game for Mac along with "the gungan frontier" it was slim pickings for a star wars fan with a Mac. Great video!

  • @fistofthesnortstar
    @fistofthesnortstar7 жыл бұрын

    The "stay on target" had me chuckling a good bit :-D

  • @huntergman8338
    @huntergman83386 жыл бұрын

    Seems like this game could stand an update or a remake.

  • @grayfire99
    @grayfire997 жыл бұрын

    Waking up to an LGR video is the best feeling ever. Love ya, Clint.

  • @LGR

    @LGR

    7 жыл бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @tjsase
    @tjsase7 жыл бұрын

    Aw you should have talked about how scary the assassin droids were for kids! Seriously, to this day, I have dreams they're chasing me.

  • @Poundage2794
    @Poundage27945 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha, oh lord, the nostalgia brought back by watching you struggle to get up those inclines is too much. I adored this game as a child.

  • @felixdietzCGN
    @felixdietzCGN7 жыл бұрын

    oh yes! I DO knew this when it was new, so awesome (as a child)

  • @alexkrueger9415
    @alexkrueger94157 жыл бұрын

    I remember playing this many years ago as one of my very first games ever. I played it on an old Mac my dad had set up in my room, along with a library of old ports of arcade games and dark forces. these games clocked truly unbelievable amounts of time. Even today I remember them fondly, albeit totally broken. Even then I could see the issues. This game, along with dark forces started me on the path I continue to this day if trying to find ways to break the game as much as possible. I'm very glad someone else covered this and brought out the dusty old nostalgia. LGR did a very good job with this video. I'm happy to see this game again. It's like an old friend. One that didn't age terribly gracefully, but an old friend nonetheless. Thank you, LGR

  • @farmhousemedia3000
    @farmhousemedia30007 жыл бұрын

    I love that you take time to shed some light on these obscure late 90's PC games that would otherwise be lost and forgotten forever. Keep 'em coming!

  • @therippedemon
    @therippedemon7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for making this. It brings me way back with those nostalgia feels.

  • @big-and-cool
    @big-and-cool7 жыл бұрын

    Dog. droidworks is a masterpiece when played on a CPU slow enough that it can perform as intended. You saying you won't play it again makes me sad. You need to do this game right by figuring out how to get it to run properly, because I promise you, this game is one of the very best when everything works properly.

  • @spockthelogical

    @spockthelogical

    4 жыл бұрын

    How DO you run it properly on a modern PC? I've been trying on and off to figure that out for the past ten years.

  • @KoopaMedia64

    @KoopaMedia64

    4 жыл бұрын

    He should try it on an iMac G3, game runs well on those old PowerPC Mac computers

  • @HappyBeezerStudios

    @HappyBeezerStudios

    4 жыл бұрын

    How slow does it has to be to work properly?

  • @samanthawiechert1561

    @samanthawiechert1561

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@spockthelogical I just replayed it this weekend. You can try and use the program dxwnd. The main problem with the physics is that these are tied to the fps. So you can set a delay between the frames with dxwnd and you are good to go. I had some very minor bugs but nothing gamebreaking at all. Played it through in one go :)

  • @samanthawiechert1561

    @samanthawiechert1561

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@spockthelogical Oh, I almost forgot. you want to aim at about 30 fps! :)

  • @martiqueheisler5959
    @martiqueheisler59596 жыл бұрын

    Dude, I use to love this game! It was installed on my grandparent's old computer and I remember my siblings and I would play it all the time before they got a new computer. Man, the nostalgia lol

  • @martiqueheisler5959

    @martiqueheisler5959

    6 жыл бұрын

    Huh, I don't really remember it being that glitchy tho. Then again it was a long time ago, plus I didn't play too many levels. Or maybe we just pretty much ignored it lol

  • @davidinark
    @davidinark7 жыл бұрын

    Ellie Mae, Daisy Duke, and Wham! all in one review of a Star Wars "game!?" You just won the Internet, LGR!

  • @FrankLoon
    @FrankLoon5 жыл бұрын

    R2 and C3PO's love child is surprisingly nimble.

  • @strain42
    @strain427 жыл бұрын

    This game seems like one of the most amazing ideas ever on paper. Everything about this game is just begging to me updated and tried again in the modern age.

  • @alexbowen7306
    @alexbowen73066 жыл бұрын

    im so glad i found these videos. keep it up lgr.

  • @CybeargPlays
    @CybeargPlays7 жыл бұрын

    Yes! I've been looking forward to this for a long time!

  • @USSMariner
    @USSMariner6 жыл бұрын

    As an aside, it's depressing that despite all the work done to make the *other* Sith Engine games work on modern systems, *this* is the one I actually want to see again.

  • @Crocogator
    @Crocogator7 жыл бұрын

    This is one of those games that I saw advertised many times, but never got around to ever playing despite wanting it.

  • @darthjimmi1481

    @darthjimmi1481

    7 жыл бұрын

    Still got my dusty disk :)

  • @anziety1983
    @anziety19834 жыл бұрын

    I LOVED playing this game as a kid. I got my copy through a scholastic book sale along side with star wars pit droids. I can't remember how many hours I spent playing this game in all it's glitchy glory.

  • @brandoncook6505
    @brandoncook65055 жыл бұрын

    My goodness I LOVE that box. Im glad you take care of those so much

  • @VipermanSBD
    @VipermanSBD7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting on my Birthday! Always love your content! Cheers!

  • @LGR

    @LGR

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you and happy birthday!

  • @Proquer
    @Proquer7 жыл бұрын

    I played the shit out of this as a kid in the early 2000s. Didn't speak any english, so I had no idea you could even test the robots until I found the button after months.

  • @whiteyexotics
    @whiteyexotics7 жыл бұрын

    I had this back in the day, I don't remember the box being holo on the Uk release though. LGR you are the man for my nostalgia needs!

  • @pacman10182
    @pacman101827 жыл бұрын

    10:08 what was with those late 90's morphing textures?

  • @LGR

    @LGR

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's a fascinating topic and it has to do with how the software renderer cheaply maps textures without perspective correction! A bit much to explain in a comment, but here ya go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_mapping#Perspective_correctness

  • @moosemaimer

    @moosemaimer

    7 жыл бұрын

    You can see that a lot in old PS1 games, especially anything with a 1st person mode where you can get right up against a wall, like MGS. It went away as 3D acceleration became standard.

  • @kittbluevenom2384

    @kittbluevenom2384

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes, it was very distinctive of the PS1. Perspective distortion is mainly in mid 90's shooters, a different type of distortion to PS1.

  • @AntiChangeling

    @AntiChangeling

    7 жыл бұрын

    Z-buffering and perspective-correct textures were some of the things that the N64 had that the PS1 didn't. Unfortunately, the N64 also had over-aggressive texture filtering, which kind of evened it out. Also, while quickly doing some research to find out whether that was as true as I remembered, I found out that the 'warping' effect I remembered actually has to do with the PS1 not having the ability to perform floating-point operations, it could only use integers (or whole numbers) to calculate the positions of whichever effect/polygon/vertex was being used. This meant that the vertices would often be warped, because there wasn't enough precision in the calculation to put everything in the 100% correct place.

  • @HappyBeezerStudios

    @HappyBeezerStudios

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not only warped but often switching back and forth between different positions.

  • @LasseHuhtala
    @LasseHuhtala7 жыл бұрын

    "Unpredictable Glitchy Garbage" I'd wear that on a T-shirt. :-)

  • @hal5699
    @hal56995 жыл бұрын

    Ah I had such a good time playing this as a kid. I remember restarting missions because I got the boxes in a hole and I actually remember having to learn about levers and pulley systems from the game. Huh, never struck me as a learning game as I played it. I could never finish the games though because the assassin droids scared me! Only ever finished the intro missions. Anyway, I'm sure you would have loved it if you played it as a kid back in the early 2000's

  • @BigBlackBe4r
    @BigBlackBe4r7 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos man! Keep up the excellent work cheers

  • @Loren_Law
    @Loren_Law4 жыл бұрын

    When I played this as a kid I remember it running perfectly, I wonder if it runs better on older machines. My Brother and I used to work together to each play and we would share our discoveries. my favorite memory was when we descovered how on a night-vision head you could paint the eyes white to change it from a night-vision effect to more of a headlamp effect which would greatly reduce battery consumption making the dark level way easier though 100 times creepier.

  • @vali6717
    @vali67177 жыл бұрын

    Star Wars Math was pretty fun from what I remember. The story was that you are a pilot whose ship got caught up in an asteroid storm and crash landing on Tatooine. You then have to earn money for new parts for your ship and eventually a brand new hyperdrive by playing games against other Star Wars characters and flying your ship-in-progress around the planet collecting scrap to sell to Wato so there is an unintentional theme of gambling through most of the game's content.

  • @thehippigeek3963
    @thehippigeek39635 жыл бұрын

    Thanks man, I love these videos!

  • @Collin-Kum
    @Collin-Kum6 жыл бұрын

    one of the games that got me hooked on starwars as a kid glad i found this vid

  • @Monody512
    @Monody5127 жыл бұрын

    Aw man! My childhood! I played this game a TON as a kid. (It ran perfectly without the glitches on my old Mac.) And it still holds a special place in my heart. … Except the phrik mines level. That place scared the shit out of me.

  • @Contla3
    @Contla37 жыл бұрын

    Now I REALLY want to see the other star wars educational games I think I'll go search for some videos now.

  • @karplusstrong
    @karplusstrong7 жыл бұрын

    oh man I played this game for many hours as a child! so great to see someone talking about it

  • @Slaanash
    @Slaanash4 жыл бұрын

    I loved taking this out from the library, how nostalgic.

  • @scifiexplained
    @scifiexplained7 жыл бұрын

    "stay on target!", simply hilarious!!

  • @cine3222
    @cine32227 жыл бұрын

    You've earned yourself a subscriber! Great reviews!

  • @LGR

    @LGR

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @Kaleo64
    @Kaleo645 жыл бұрын

    I had this on a PowerPC Mac back in the day and it ran perfectly. I remember loving this game to bits.

  • @hellborn2012
    @hellborn20127 жыл бұрын

    I vaguely remember loving this when I was 4 or 5. I just loved building the robots. Never remembered it being Star Wars since I never really got into it. But dang, this is bringing back a lot of memories.

  • @LeeroyRublev77
    @LeeroyRublev777 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad to know other people had these problems. When played this game back in '04(ish) I remember being frustrated because I couldn't pass the first level. I always clipped through the box.

  • @dylanmatthew4160
    @dylanmatthew41607 жыл бұрын

    I remember playing this game at the Museum of Science in Boston, but my family sucked and never let me do anything I wanted to and pulled me away after only like 5 minutes. We just HAD to see every single fucking exhibit in the museum, instead of spending meaningful time with each individual one. Rant over.

  • @Gigas0101
    @Gigas01015 жыл бұрын

    Droid Works and Gungan Frontier were my two star wars PC guilty pleasures, and I'd absolutely love to see both of these updated. Hell, throw in Tie Fighter and X-Wing to the "Remake for modern systems" bundle and you've probably saved the spirit of human goodness. Thanks for the review and the nostalgia.

  • @lmaolmao5587
    @lmaolmao55876 жыл бұрын

    This game ruled so goddamn much as a kid. I loved it so much. I’m pretty sure that if I played this game I’d suddenly be able to find all of the secret, hidden areas in the testing zone immediately because I spent so much time there, testing out my awful, awful droids, just to make one that can jump the most, or one that literally couldn’t even make it up the slope to get into the area because I wanted to see how heavy of a body I could put on how tiny and weak of legs...

  • @Jazzy7664
    @Jazzy76647 жыл бұрын

    I had this as a demo as a child - it have fascinated me ever since.

  • @Engel1916
    @Engel19167 жыл бұрын

    Man, I put so many hours in that game. Thanks for covering it, LGR.

  • @ProtoMario
    @ProtoMario7 жыл бұрын

    Jar jar binks, lord of hatred

  • @austinbaccus

    @austinbaccus

    5 жыл бұрын

    ProtoMario Sith Lord*

  • @AlexanderFort
    @AlexanderFort3 жыл бұрын

    I played this game when it came out and never had any issues like you experienced. It’s one of my favorite games from my childhood.

  • @jbfarley

    @jbfarley

    3 жыл бұрын

    Highly unlikely

  • @jordlor6260
    @jordlor62607 жыл бұрын

    I played this game like crazy back in the early 2000's and absolutely adored everything about it. I was about 6-7 at the time so I either never really noticed most of the glitchyness or just thought it was part of the game. If I had to go back and try to play through it now I would probably hate it. Good video tho.

  • @OsirisLord
    @OsirisLord6 жыл бұрын

    The Gungan Frontier was an interesting Lucas Learning game since it was an ecology management simulator and I don't see many people talk about it. Basically Boss Nass wants the Gungans to colonize Naboo's moon but it doesn't have an ecosystem to support a colony so you play as either Obi-Wan or Queen Amidala and you collect plants, herbivores, and carnivores from the Star Wars universe, set up an ecosystem, and then tell the Gungan's how much of each species they can harvest so that you can balance the demands of a growing Gungan civilization without causing your hard-won ecosystem to collapse. It was really smart, really hard, and really rewarding.

  • @jakey3332
    @jakey33327 жыл бұрын

    Played this when I was in preschool. I couldn't remember what it was called until I saw this video. Awesome I get to see this again!

  • @sammaster999
    @sammaster9997 жыл бұрын

    7:40 Hilarious! Great job on this vid Clint!

  • @CalmaxFilm
    @CalmaxFilm6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this awesome video even if you didn't talk about assassin droids :p This game makes me really nostalgic...

  • @AlexanderWilithinIII
    @AlexanderWilithinIII7 жыл бұрын

    Oh my goodness, I used to go my middle school library during lunch or after hours to get my hands on this gem. This was my jam game.

  • @racer927
    @racer9277 жыл бұрын

    Ah, CamelCase, whenever it's used in titles to make something look MoreImportant. Of course I play so much BattleTech with it's BattleMechs and OmniMechs, the MechWarriors that pilot them. Battle Armor that uses HarJel to seal armor breaches, AeroTech fighters that are used to escort DropShips and JumpShips. I've grown so accustomed to it. On the subject of this game, I have nostalgia with this game despite barely playing it. It was mostly watching my brother play it but I specifically remember the dancing mode on the construction screen. Also... Who else thought InDex would describe *the* Force and not the forces of energy when LGR showed it in the video?

  • @machiner6
    @machiner67 жыл бұрын

    I fell in love with Droidworks ever since I tried it on my library's computers. And after my parents bought me a copy, the PC that it worked on with little bugs was a Mac 7500/100. Now, it's sad to think I'll never get this experience back. I'm gonna miss this rare gem of a game. There's also one thing that makes the glitches seem trivial: Those GOD DAMN sadistic assassin droids!

  • @phocarrot
    @phocarrot5 жыл бұрын

    God, I loved this game as a kid. I don't think I ever finished anything past the second mission, but I spent a ridiculous amount of time just building droids and running around the training facility.

  • @RynoDBones
    @RynoDBones7 жыл бұрын

    One of my friends had this on his Mac back in 99. We sat and watched him play for hours.

  • @natewashere5056
    @natewashere50567 жыл бұрын

    I'd kill to just chill with this dude and play through his collection

  • @Segmaster01
    @Segmaster017 жыл бұрын

    I still have my original disk of this game -- I played many, many hours of this game a kid. Loved it.

  • @ClowdyHowdy
    @ClowdyHowdy7 жыл бұрын

    Oh man... I had a lot of fun playing droidworks back in the day.

  • @Katosepe
    @Katosepe7 жыл бұрын

    I loved this game as a kid and I don't recall having any of the glitches you mentioned. Bad camera, yeah. Awkward controls, yeah. But not being unable to move up ramps or anything. I wish I could tell you my setup but all I remember from then was it was a Gateway Windows 98 box. Anyway, thanks for the nostalgia trip!

  • @queen_curie
    @queen_curie4 жыл бұрын

    Ah man, I played this game as a kid. This is like a blast from the past. Damn.

  • @zedsez
    @zedsez Жыл бұрын

    I used to rent this from my library all the time.

  • @chimerschang
    @chimerschang7 жыл бұрын

    This game was pretty much my main gateway into Star Wars. I'm not kidding, I had watched the movies previously as a little kid, but I had next to no memory of them other than some of the characters names and the fact that there were robots, space ships and lightsabers. I had also watched my older brothers play the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games, but that was pretty much it. I mainly wanted to play this because I was really into robots, and building and controlling robots was a thing in this.

  • @sirrliv
    @sirrliv6 жыл бұрын

    Wow. There's a blast from the past. I used to love Droidworks back when my best friend from middle school had it. Here's hoping someone creates an open source clone of it so that future generations can also enjoy this forgotten gem. Though hopefully without a lot of the game-breaking bugs.

  • @shaneleary88
    @shaneleary887 жыл бұрын

    Oh man, the nostalgia. I forgot all about this game. I used to love this back when it came out. Pretty sure I didn't get very far since I was, you know, 10 years old... and it was a little janky... still lots of love! It came out after the Sojourner Mars rover mission ended, which wholly captured my imagination back then. Robots are cool.

  • @DecentFarts
    @DecentFarts7 жыл бұрын

    Dang. We got to play this after all our work was done in our 2nd grade special projects class. This is the first time seeing it since then. This takes me back. hahaha

  • @UnfortunateFreakNo1
    @UnfortunateFreakNo17 жыл бұрын

    I don't remember those cutscenes or the index, but I do remember this game fondly!

  • @cloudyswildride
    @cloudyswildride5 жыл бұрын

    I only ever played this as a demo from the Pit droids disk. So it is nice to see the rest of the game!

  • @TheToodlesTeam
    @TheToodlesTeam7 жыл бұрын

    Man, I played the crap out of this game back in the day. Not having traditional game consoles or a Windows PC growing up, this was one of the few games I got to play on the family Mac. One of my all-time favorites. Thankfully, the game ran beautifully back in the day. I guess our old computer was just crappy enough to keep things running smoothly! I wish I still had a machine that could run it.

  • @balkloth
    @balkloth5 жыл бұрын

    i loved this game as a kid! didn't have the physics issues either (although I definitely got stuck a lot). always liked how the farmers in droidworks were the pedestrians in dark forces 2

  • @guardianbob
    @guardianbob7 жыл бұрын

    I played this game non-stop on my old iMac. Loved it. Thanks for the nostalgia trip! I'm not sure if the physics glitches were a byproduct of your Virtual PC usage or not, but personally i don't remember ever experiencing anything of the sort on my 333mhz iMac :P

  • @JeffreyPiatt

    @JeffreyPiatt

    Жыл бұрын

    He's using retro bare metal the issue is that the Sith engine is picky about CPU speed and his systems are basically dream systems for the Era.

  • @GeneralBison
    @GeneralBison3 жыл бұрын

    I loved this game when I was a kid! Still got the CD in my parents attic!

  • @ShotgunDiplomacy
    @ShotgunDiplomacy7 жыл бұрын

    I remember playing this game as a kid. I freagin' loved it, creating your own droid in the Star Wars universe? That shit was mind blowing. Now I just need you to review Forestia and you have about covered my childhood when it comes to PC/Mac games...

  • @busyak
    @busyak5 жыл бұрын

    I had Gungan Frontier in 99 (I was 6!) and it came with a demo of Droidworks. It had one mission, the one that teaches you the mechanics of gears, and a fraction of the parts available for droid building. But goddamn, I played the hell out of it. Probably played it hundreds of times more than Gungan Frontier.

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