The RetroBeat: The Phantom Menace game deserves some love

A lot of Star Wars fans are excited to see that Episode I: Racer is coming to Switch and PC on May 12. And, sure, I am too! But I can’t help but feel a bit bad for another game based on The Phantom Menace. In fact, I am talking about the game based off of that 1999 film.

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the game, is just that. It’s a direct video game interpretation of the film. This is something we used to see a lot more of in the 1990s, with every major blockbuster having a video-game tie-in that retells the events of the movie. The Phantom Menace game came out for PC on the same day as the film, May 19, 1999. A PlayStation version followed on August 31.