True. The high bar at the time was SNES superFX chip (Starfox) but this was next level. I think I preferred the cleaner solid filled polygons of SNES though -- Never was a huge fan of the muddied textures of that generation PC game or PS1, which is why I was a big N64 guy a few years later.
This game has aged very badly. The controls are abysmal. But boy, oh boy Playing this back then was something absolutely fantastic. Even then we realised the controls were not that much, and how simple the game was. But everyone loved it. I couldnt even believe I was playing that at home.
Back in the early to mid 90's these amazing Star Wars PC games kept my love for the franchise going while Lucas was deciding whether or not to start working on the Prequels.
It looked very realistic :) ..coming from games like X-Wing or even all the MicroProse games - but it was on rails (pre-rendered 3DS FLIcks) with only small (but essential) movement control of your sprite, same as in MegaRace by Cryo (with real footage and a hilarious host for the cut scenes). CD-ROM just had too much space...
It was not just the graphics. The sound, music, animations, real speech (and the staff of this game is better then modern ones). MS DOS games, or genesis\snes games that we had back then were awesome (still are)... but this was next level. We knew the game was simple and the gameplay was not a big of a deal... but damn! I remember I couldnt even believe I was playing a game like that. At home.
I enjoyed the video and watched it in full because this game was a favourite of mine on the Panasonic 3DO. The 90s was an exciting time for gaming and still my best gaming memories. Thank you.
Sega CD version owner here! I could never beat the first level as a child, and here you're telling me there was an even harder mode? Haha. It may have been too hard but seeing it always brings back smiles.
I still remember this. Back in 1993, it was a jarring feeling going from X-Wing to this game. In X-Wing you had full control of the ship. In this, you spent most of the time fighting the controls. They somewhat fixed this on Rebel Assault 2, but this is the one game that a joystick was all but required. I could beat this on Easy and Normal, but never on Hard.
@@Shot5hells To clarify, you can beat both Rebel Assault games with a mouse - and I'd argue it's the better setup for the second one. But for the first one, it's near impossible. I've seen playthroughs of the original X-Wing and TIE Fighter with a mouse. X-W Alliance required the joystick due to the more complex maneuvers and options that weren't a part of the original games - namely rudder control and secondary axis movement, which a mouse couldn't manage.
Recently tried Star Wars Squadrons, which made me wish I gave those early Star Wars combat sim games a chance back in the day. I was more into RPGs during that era.
This game blew my mind as a 10 year old, the game was really hard because of the janky controls, I think I completed it somewhere till the 30 minute mark where you play as a human. I couldn't beat that part.
I never made it to chapter 12 I believe. I played this with a joystick back in the days and found it to be extremely hard. I was a child back then and never figured out that I could jump to a level using the codes so I had to start over many times.
Amazing how video game graphics have evolved as time goes by. This game i remember as my first videogame on pc. I had an Intel 80486 SX 25 with 25 mhz and 4 mb ram and a 8x cd rom drive or something like that 😂
Ah the memories. I was terrible at this game, which means I played the training and the first couple levels more times than I care to think about. Know those intro cutscenes like the back of my hand. Thanks for the good memories.
Man, the memories! I got this game as part of a PC pack of Lucas Arts game from Best Buy back in the day. I was never able to beat Rebel Assault. I think the farthest I got was the first Hoth mission where you're following a probe droid through Ice tunnels. Now Rebel Assault II, I not only was able to beat, but I went back and beaten that game on the hardest difficulty. I do have both games through Steam, so one of these days, I need to see if I can get them to run again.
I speak for anyone who ever played this game that Planet Kolaador is the hardest level in the game. If you can manage to barely survive that, the rest of the game is pretty easy.
Hearing the sounds and music makes me nostalgic for back when LucasArts was one of the best studios around. It was a wild time where some of the most cutting-edge games were Star Wars games, like Dark Forces. I never get sick of these music loops of digitized John Williams mastery.
I'm a starwars fan and I've played this game in the early 90s. I've played the ps1, GameCube and any starwars games I could find. Now I have a powerful PC with an oculus quest 2 tethered playing starwars squadrons.
I feel bad for today's generation of teenagers who will never know the sheer excitement of being in front of a black DOS screen of a freshly booted 486 with the following text a seemingly open invitation to start your adventure: C:\>_ Then after typing a few command lines and some tentative seconds later, the black screen is replaced by a pixelated, almost clumsy but wonderous world of colour and sound, brought to life by a machine with 1% the power of what they today carry in their hand. Just a modest collection of games, stored in big boxes complete with thick paper manuals, sometimes maps and other goodies, but that was it. No overwhelmingly large library of sugar-coated rubbish, just a solid collection of games you loved. Simple graphics and sound that somehow transported you to other worlds better than the "life-like" games of today even do. This game was epic back in the day, those cut-scenes and official sounds from the movies were next-level...Time to fire up the old emulator!
This game was so so hard on a 386. The fps was low and the frames drew/teared down the screen so slowly. Every single level I recall being stuck on forever
It's my head canon that his name is pronounced "Rookie One" despite having it spelled slightly different like "Ruekei Wune" or something like that and they just call him "Rookie one"
Oh, man, this was among my crop of Mega CD games way back in the day, I played this to death on there, but I don't seem to remember Chapter 7, though... and a lot of other stuff, though, jus chalk that up to having not played it in years, I suppose... Although, I will tell you what, if you want a challenge, try playing this on Hard on a black and white tele! Forget Dark Souls, at least on there you can SEE your enemies!
it played like garbage even back then :D objectively didn't look all that great either, especially when pixellated video compression took most of the screen, but that was the CD-ROM speeds for you... even later Wing Commander III still struggled hard with the video quality and stuttering drives.
Wow, this was bad looking even for the time it came out. I'm sticking with Rebel Assault 2. Nothing to write home about, but it was certainly easier on the eye.
![Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 (PC) Longplay | Expert Mode [1995]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/m3JxcfIjyPc/mqdefault.jpg)
![Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 (PC) Longplay | Expert Mode [1995]](/img/tr.png)
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May not look like much now, but back then, this was mind-blowing.
you kidding? I am 32yo and this looks mindblowing to me in 2023
Better made than many today's games
True. The high bar at the time was SNES superFX chip (Starfox) but this was next level. I think I preferred the cleaner solid filled polygons of SNES though -- Never was a huge fan of the muddied textures of that generation PC game or PS1, which is why I was a big N64 guy a few years later.
I thought it was a crappy fmv rail shooter in 93 🤷♂️ nostalgia is fun
This game has aged very badly. The controls are abysmal.
But boy, oh boy
Playing this back then was something absolutely fantastic.
Even then we realised the controls were not that much, and how simple the game was.
But everyone loved it.
I couldnt even believe I was playing that at home.
Back in the early to mid 90's these amazing Star Wars PC games kept my love for the franchise going while Lucas was deciding whether or not to start working on the Prequels.
This looks way, way easier than it felt in 1993 when I was ten.
Wow... I'm so old now.
Don't worry, I'm older and it was a hard game - especially at 10fps on a 386SX-33, didn't pass Chapter 3 I think.
I remember seeing this in 1993 and thinking "that's it, we've reached the peak of realism, games will never look better than this".
An then it got even more realistic X)
Had the same feeling with the Arcade racing game F1 Exhaust Note :)
I thought about that when I was Altred Beast. On a MASTER SYSTEM.
Since we watched everything in 480p and it was impossible to see the flaws on screens like that.
Never seen or played this game, but man I can only imagine how surreal it must have been back then playing this game. Mind blowing
It looked very realistic :) ..coming from games like X-Wing or even all the MicroProse games - but it was on rails (pre-rendered 3DS FLIcks) with only small (but essential) movement control of your sprite, same as in MegaRace by Cryo (with real footage and a hilarious host for the cut scenes). CD-ROM just had too much space...
It was not just the graphics. The sound, music, animations, real speech (and the staff of this game is better then modern ones). MS DOS games, or genesis\snes games that we had back then were awesome (still are)... but this was next level. We knew the game was simple and the gameplay was not a big of a deal... but damn!
I remember I couldnt even believe I was playing a game like that. At home.
I enjoyed the video and watched it in full because this game was a favourite of mine on the Panasonic 3DO.
The 90s was an exciting time for gaming and still my best gaming memories. Thank you.
Sega CD version owner here! I could never beat the first level as a child, and here you're telling me there was an even harder mode? Haha. It may have been too hard but seeing it always brings back smiles.
Star wars rebel assault is legendary with Spectacular graphics and STUNNING gameplay
I think the gameplay sucks. And the game aged poorly. Very poorly.
But I loved it back then. It was mindblowing
First Star Wars PC game I had as a kid. Spent so many hours on it!
Man I remember being 6 years old, death grip on the Gravis joystick, my brother trying to explain to me what "on rails" meant...
I still remember this. Back in 1993, it was a jarring feeling going from X-Wing to this game. In X-Wing you had full control of the ship. In this, you spent most of the time fighting the controls. They somewhat fixed this on Rebel Assault 2, but this is the one game that a joystick was all but required. I could beat this on Easy and Normal, but never on Hard.
interestingly X wing alliance also won't work without a joystick, but X wing and TIE fighter which came before it don't.
@@Shot5hells To clarify, you can beat both Rebel Assault games with a mouse - and I'd argue it's the better setup for the second one. But for the first one, it's near impossible.
I've seen playthroughs of the original X-Wing and TIE Fighter with a mouse. X-W Alliance required the joystick due to the more complex maneuvers and options that weren't a part of the original games - namely rudder control and secondary axis movement, which a mouse couldn't manage.
Recently tried Star Wars Squadrons, which made me wish I gave those early Star Wars combat sim games a chance back in the day. I was more into RPGs during that era.
I remember the Christmas that my uncle got this.... the intro blew my child brain.
"Rookie one" ... wow, takes me back
This game blew my mind as a 10 year old, the game was really hard because of the janky controls, I think I completed it somewhere till the 30 minute mark where you play as a human. I couldn't beat that part.
I can imagine this was insane back in the day. I’m impressed now considering the hardware !
I never made it to chapter 12 I believe. I played this with a joystick back in the days and found it to be extremely hard. I was a child back then and never figured out that I could jump to a level using the codes so I had to start over many times.
So cool... fighting that on-rails aiming... love it! Thank you for the upload!
Amazing how video game graphics have evolved as time goes by.
This game i remember as my first videogame on pc. I had an Intel 80486 SX 25 with 25 mhz and 4 mb ram and a 8x cd rom drive or something like that 😂
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, during the nascent era of video compression technology...
Ah the memories. I was terrible at this game, which means I played the training and the first couple levels more times than I care to think about. Know those intro cutscenes like the back of my hand. Thanks for the good memories.
Saaaaaaame
Man, the memories! I got this game as part of a PC pack of Lucas Arts game from Best Buy back in the day. I was never able to beat Rebel Assault. I think the farthest I got was the first Hoth mission where you're following a probe droid through Ice tunnels. Now Rebel Assault II, I not only was able to beat, but I went back and beaten that game on the hardest difficulty. I do have both games through Steam, so one of these days, I need to see if I can get them to run again.
I remember playing this when it came out, it had crazy cinematic graphics!!
I speak for anyone who ever played this game that Planet Kolaador is the hardest level in the game. If you can manage to barely survive that, the rest of the game is pretty easy.
I remember being stuck to Chapter 3 - Planet Kolaador for weeks!!
Anyone who disagrees with your statement is just simply wrong 😅😈
@@stardust6004 or never knew how stress inducing it is or how many times they got the game over screen after crashing multiple times.
Hearing the sounds and music makes me nostalgic for back when LucasArts was one of the best studios around. It was a wild time where some of the most cutting-edge games were Star Wars games, like Dark Forces. I never get sick of these music loops of digitized John Williams mastery.
Played the hell out of this on my friends PC back when it came out. Anything Star Wars that came out we grabbed up back then.
I remember playing this game as a little kid on the 3DO man this brings back memories.
I'm a starwars fan and I've played this game in the early 90s. I've played the ps1, GameCube and any starwars games I could find. Now I have a powerful PC with an oculus quest 2 tethered playing starwars squadrons.
I just realized the flight trainer later voiced the mission briefing and spacecraft briefings in the Rogue Squadron games for the GameCube.
This was actually my introduction to the Star Wars saga.
My first CD-ROM game on my first Packard-Bell computer. We had to mail in for a 3.5 patch disc for the PC.
Yavin Training was always the hardest one for me. I did not bother with shooting the drones and just tried surviving.
the music is epic
Fact: this game is now nearly exactly as old as Spacewar! was when Rebel Assault came out.
I've played this for ages! only completed it once or twice haha, thnx for upload
I was still playing my SNES in ‘93. This would’ve been amazing to 11 year old me if I ever saw it.
Lol! And i couldn't pass beggar's canyon!
I feel bad for today's generation of teenagers who will never know the sheer excitement of being in front of a black DOS screen of a freshly booted 486 with the following text a seemingly open invitation to start your adventure:
C:\>_
Then after typing a few command lines and some tentative seconds later, the black screen is replaced by a pixelated, almost clumsy but wonderous world of colour and sound, brought to life by a machine with 1% the power of what they today carry in their hand.
Just a modest collection of games, stored in big boxes complete with thick paper manuals, sometimes maps and other goodies, but that was it. No overwhelmingly large library of sugar-coated rubbish, just a solid collection of games you loved. Simple graphics and sound that somehow transported you to other worlds better than the "life-like" games of today even do.
This game was epic back in the day, those cut-scenes and official sounds from the movies were next-level...Time to fire up the old emulator!
THIS 90's Star Wars !!!!
For this game i bought my first PC a 386. But xwing my second pc game i got was even better. Still its great to see this again.
The very first game I purchased the day my computer was upgraded with one of those new fangled CD-ROM drives! Damn, exactly 30 years ago.
5:24 he’s flying an A-Wing, but that’s an X-wing cockpit
This was, and still is a masterpiece. Joystick plugged into sound card days
Yes. DB 15 port.
I love the captions on R2D2
BEEP BEEP BEEP
I always knew of Rebel Assault II, never really considered the first one lol.
This game was so so hard on a 386. The fps was low and the frames drew/teared down the screen so slowly. Every single level I recall being stuck on forever
My 10 year old self was so proud of himself at this moment. 46:46
This game was the reason i changed 1994 from Amiga 500 with 1 mb to a PC-Dos System ;)
So much memory
17:30 - Still looks better than Bethesda's face and speech engine
o ya I remember playing this game it was difficult
Wow, I do not remember the in game graphics being quite so muddy!
Even the easy mode was hard. 😢
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!
First game on CD Rom for me
Some people would look back at these FMV games with nostalgia. Not me. I hated the controls even back then when it was new.
It's my head canon that his name is pronounced "Rookie One" despite having it spelled slightly different like "Ruekei Wune" or something like that and they just call him "Rookie one"
Oh, man, this was among my crop of Mega CD games way back in the day, I played this to death on there, but I don't seem to remember Chapter 7, though... and a lot of other stuff, though, jus chalk that up to having not played it in years, I suppose... Although, I will tell you what, if you want a challenge, try playing this on Hard on a black and white tele! Forget Dark Souls, at least on there you can SEE your enemies!
Oh My GOD!!!! Luke was CAPED !!!!
Wait, this was a rail shooter?
Yep, a FMV rail shooter.
it played like garbage even back then :D objectively didn't look all that great either, especially when pixellated video compression took most of the screen, but that was the CD-ROM speeds for you... even later Wing Commander III still struggled hard with the video quality and stuttering drives.
Tie fighter is king
28:44 rookie one is dummie thicc
Now own my disney
The first game I remember playing, having 3 yo hahaha
"Difficulty is hard." Ain't that a fact of life?
No dedicated GPU, there wasn’t such a thing as a PCIe slot to put a graphics card in until later in the 90’s
I had a Trident S3 in a 8 or 16bit ISA slot that time. Next was a Cirrus Logic VLB card (played Strike Commander with that one)
PCIe came in the early 2000s, you probably mean PCI or later on AGP
It’s a torture to watch the player missing all the targets
Ah, the game CD-ROM drives used the be bought for.
Well, in my case, anyway.
I don’t think I ever beat the training leve.
Wow, this was bad looking even for the time it came out.
I'm sticking with Rebel Assault 2. Nothing to write home about, but it was certainly easier on the eye.
This is a blast from the past but the chronological order of the story makes absolutely no sense.
Hack downplaying how Beggar's Canyon isn't that tough. ;>_>
Wow, that game did not age well at all. I had forgotten it was a rails shooter, with everything being pre-rendered.
I played it with mouse and its rly hard...
Is this at all playable on a xbox controller? Mouse very sensitive.
The alternative was a joystick. No controller for these games
The one thing I'll never forget is how terrible the 3rd person flying controls were. Enjoyable, but very much style over substance
I prefer X-Wing or Tie-Figther, FMV games are not my cup of tea.
that time it was a revolution.. today its just eye cancer.
Great looking game but control was shit, unplayable