The night my Dad passed away I went home and played this game for hours. I don't remember much from that night, but I know I got lost in the game for hours. It helped the grieving process. Watched Star Wars movies with my Dad all the time so playing this game was cool.
I first played this game a day or 2 after my grandmother passed away. She was like my mother and it was really hard. I remember playing this game in my room while the funeral stuff was going on and my uncle came and berated me for playing a game during all the shit going on. My dad almost broke his nose for bugging us kids while we tried to find a moment of peace during that time. Will always be one of my favorite games.
Nostalgia hits hard with this game. Spent crazy amount of hours playing this as a 9 year old. Alot of times, i'd just randomly fly around and explore places and admire the views. What a beautiful game this was !!
One thing everyone fails to mention is loading times. N64 was quick. Hardly any noticeable load times. PS1 usually took a couple of minutes to boot a level.
Also the massive maps in the N64's open world titles. Ocarina, Majora's Mask, Body Harvest. I can't think of a single PS1 that looked that good with such large areas and detail.
i fucking loved this game, i remember i got it as a gift for christmas. the power had went out due to heavy snow so i went down to a family members house for a few days and i didnt put the controller down for days. id play till i fell asleep, wake up and keep playing the next day.
@@abstractdaddy1384 Funny thing is I remember how hard it was as it was one of the last levels I got gold in. On my second and third all gold play throughs I got it first try. There is a strategy to it that I had down those years ago.
I missed the gold by a second one time. A single enemy the next, and a single percent the time after that. I didn't rage quit, but I did go for a rage run.
Tyler Williamson fuck yea the gamecube version especially for a launch title still looks freaken amazing! I remeber people talking about how it looked even better then the movies!..... if i were a young gamer right now and i saw someone playing the gamecube version but they lie to me by saying it was an xboxone/ps4 game, i would definitely believe it!....... But what makes the n64 version a bit more special is how good it still holds up today some 20 years later especially when you remember that its running on 64 bit hardware that was developed in the early 90s!
I remember my brother coming home one day after work with a brand new 64 shortly after launch with this, and an arcade/flight stick combo. Hooked it up, cranked up the surround sound, and oh my god. One of my all time favorite games on ANY console.
Anthony Obiedo i just hope that with the new star wars movies having the xwing in them we will get a new version! its a shame the wii version was cancelled as it looked superb being a remake of some of the classic rogue squadron levels
Great game. Strong mission variety, excellent controls, challenging levels, wonderful graphics, excellent sound, steep but rewarding difficulty curve. It had everything you could possibly want.
The trench run gold was something my father and I used to race to. Neither one of us were ever able to come in under that 2:42 mark needed for gold, until one summer, dad was in the yard, I was playing and basically speed running through the trench run (all this was about 5-6 months of work for us to 100% gold the game) and the next thing I know, I run a 2:33. My father was never able to get 100% gold because he couldn't beat that run. It was and still is, one of my top 3 favorite games of all time.
This was my favorite game out of all of my N64 games I played it more than Aerofighters Assault and Jet force Gemini. I regret not playing the 2nd and 3rd games that came out but a lot of stuff happened which prevented me from doing so. A remake of this game series would be a welcome to me and to all.
exactly the same as me. It took me forever to get a gamecube to play the sequels. It drove me mad when I was playing them on the demo kiosks in stores. I wanted my own copy so bad.
the "fog" effect I had all ways thought was intentional, for me it added to the over all feel like I was making my way through war fog hunting my enemies
In some cases it is intentional. Whether it fits the atmosphere, or whether they don't want to embrace pop-up as unabashedly as Sony did. I don't think Sony was capable of the fog effect, so they had to settle for pop-up.
fog is one of those kill 2 birds with one stine things when done properly. helps the game run better and adds to the atmosphere. in some remakes of games i've seen many fans upset by the removal of fog, claiming it lost the atmospheric feeling of the original.
Been playing Battlefront since it came out and...Rogue Squadron was doing the " "most authentic Star Wars experience" nearly 20 years ago...I feel like they used assets from this game in Battlefront lol
This is definitely one of the best star wars games. I first got to play this at my cousins house the christmas after it came out and was addicted and played it for hours. Its nice that you have all these star wars videos grouped together. I luckily got to them just in time to coincide with the new star wars movie.
Used to rent this game all the time until recently I reacquired a N64 and this was the first game I grabbed...Damn tht was a fun birthday present...Still is.
OMG This game was like, my entire early childhood!! I remember when my family barely got the 64 nd this was one of the games. It took 8-year old me about a year to pass missions 3 and 4, but that was how strong my dedication was to this game. Later I got Rogue Squadron II for the Gamecube and together with this...pure bliss...
yeah the chicken walker 2 player level is rad, i didn't have anyone to play with me for the review otherwise i probably would have covered that mission too.
Ordered this game as well as Shadows of the Empire online last year. So glad I have them now! Rogue Squadron is especially great! The controls and graphics are superb for an N64 game!
I love this game my uncle and I would play this game for hours I remember one time my uncle showed me how to use coffee powder to trick my grandma into thinking I had diarrhea so she would call my school and tell them I'm sick that way I could stay home and play Rouge Squadron with him lol so whenever I play or hear someone talk about this game it brings back fun memories hanging out with my uncle.
This game blew me away back in the day. The dog fighting from the very first missions is awesome. I’m going to play it again soon, and I know it will still hold up as a great experience. I’ve jumped into virtual reality recently with the PSVR. Star Wars Squadrons is epic. But it’s testament to Rogue Squadron that, after being in virtual reality, I’m happy to then fire up the N64 and jump in.
Playing this for the first time in 2022 and it is AWESOME !!! I missed out on a lot of gems on the 64. Glad I can get them now and experience them. My son loves this too.
Fantastic game! I remember that it took me a *ton* of time to find all of the unlocks and get *all of the gold medals* to get the 3 bonus missions - and it was *so worth it* ! The Battle of Hoth alone (which needs you to get all of the gold medals) was just *brilliant* !
Easily my fav game on the N64. I replayed it recently and it still holds up wonderfully, both graphically and gameplay. I imagine the remaster on PC must be even better
James Carthew same here. gotta add Rebel Strike, but mostly because they finally gave us multilayer dogfights and allowed us to play Rogue Leader with 2 players!!
I, too, remember that code for the Naboo Starfighter. It really was mindblowing to find out the ship had been hiding in the game the whole time. It was so cool for a development team to put that much additional bonus content in a game already rich with gameplay.
and may the force be with you too Glenn. What a superb game, and what an incredible review, loved all the stories you added in with this one and i had no idea about what the expansion pak was supposed to be originally used for. This video blew my mind.
yeah it wasn't originally designed for games and so i think too many devs didn't want to put the extra effort in. at least the games that did are generally cool
thanks for responding. I didnt know your channel until I saw this video. I subscribed to your channel so that I won't miss any of your videos. Keep up the excellent work sir! take care.
Coming off of Star Fox 64, Star Wars Rogue Squadron was actually my first real foray into the Star Wars universe. So as you can guess, my favorite parts of the Star Wars movies are the parts where there is a dogfight of some sort going on. Fun fact: When I was a little kid, my mom and I used to joke that the picture used for Wedge Antillies in the movie looked like my grandfather. This joke was the earliest inspiration for a novel I am currently working on.
haha well here's another cool fact, my friends Mom was cast as Han Solos girlfriend in Star Wars. She filmed all the scenes etc and then George Lucas decided he didn't want Solo to have a girlfriend as it would soften his character too much so they cut all scenes with her in it. She still attends conventions today as big fans will know who she is but she missed out on the big payoff that the franchise went on to create
@@Jack_80 I picked up Shadows of the Empire a few months ago, it's super clunky! Still really fun though. I would highly recommend changing the controls for Rogue Squadron, IMO all but one of the pre-sets are terrible. I don't remember what the good one is called, but A and B controled speed, Z was to fire blasters, and R made you roll.
This game was pure magic. I remember not finding all of the codes until I had beaten the game, and it breathed new life into the fun. The graphics and music were perfect. the mission design and level design were amazing. The controls just worked, and the framerate was quite smooth.
So I just got the EON 64 and the MClassic and trying them combined on this game is amazing. It truly makes the graphics of this game a pleasure on modern tvs.
Naw, I'll stick to my setup. That CRT is pretty boss, but won't work spacewise for my setup. The HDMI and double line smoothing really helps. Though it almost looks like someone matte paint filtered the game on certain less graphical games and if you don't like that just turn off the eon 64's filter or remove the Mclassic from the equation.
So true! Shadows of the Empire, Rogue Squadron, Episode 1 Racer, and Battle for Naboo are all excellent. N64 is the only system I can say that all Star Wars released for that console ended up being amazing.
@@SkyScourgeGod shadows of the empire may still be my favorite star wars game ever. nothing ever quite matched the awe and intensity of flying around with the jetpack for me. and replaying it recently, the bossfights are still amazing and epic, especially boba fett.
20 years ago I had this game.....just picked up a copy for €10 so now letting my kids have all the fun again. This time I will search for all the best n64 games and keep them for ever.
you will have to do a new list of best (easily obtainable) N64 games, or talk about the HDMI upgrade and your views on if it is worth it. some games are hard to get hold of (paper mario for example) so my collection will be limited. keep up the good work, we know the list is not endless...hopefully the new N64 classic will give you more material...if and when it comes. off subject, the other game i liked was Tremulous, it was a linux FPS/squad game, did you every try it? it is now called unvanquished...think i must be a bit old school.
You have covered it all in this one GP! A must buy for anyone with an N64. I remember going to a friends house and blowing his mind with some of those codes. The game was challenging, but not impossible to 100%. If it wasn't for that sticker on the jump Pak that says "do not remove" I might have been allowed to use the expansion :(.
Originally I thought that I wouldn't remember this game very well but after watching this I realized how well I remembered this game and had a very nostalgic moment just remembering all the fun I had with this game as a kid and how cool it was at finding all this new awesome information I could find out on this game on the internet as a kid
I loved this game..the best was how the naboo starfighter was a hidden unlock before Phantom Menace came out. My only complaint was it needed space level combat.
This game was the number one reason my brothers and I wanted a Nintendo 64. We never saw or knew of anything like it before since we were very young and had limited awareness of the gaming landscape. Heck, I don't think I knew about Zelda or Mario until after we got the N64; but, when we finally bought ourselves one, Rogue Squadron was one of the first few titles we got for the system. The thing I most remember about the game was the fact that none of us could get a gold medal for the Mission on Fest where you had to protect Rebel AT-PTs. My brothers and I were able to get gold medals on all the other missions but this one was seeming impossible as one AT-PT would always fall before we could bring down the first AT-AT or shortly thereafter. Even cheats couldn't help with that. Nonetheless, the game met our expectations and we thoroughly enjoyed the it.
i always love hearing peoples memories about how they found levels tough or missions they got stuck on. i loved trying to speed run the death star trench run and used to be able to do it with my foils closed for the whole time in the xwing speeding through until the last second :)
I just got this game and I got an HD cable for my n64!!! LOOKS AMAZING. some old games are so good that you can just pick them up and play. Amazing how back in the day some devs really figured out how to make solid controls while most other game companies/studios still made games with awful controls and horrible camera angles!!! 7:13 those missile are freaking brutal!!!
I purchased this game with my saved up money as a kid back in the day from either a kb toys or toys-r-us in the u.s, it was $25- $30 I believe. I had recently been introduced to the original trilogy of SW movies on VHS by a family friend. It was one of my best purchases ever at a time when I didn't think to look up reviews for games in magazines, although I did get to play a demo for it and jedi knight on a disc that came with our sony vaio desktop. I put countless hours into this game and still fire it up occasionally to this day. Sadly I only purchased an expansion pak in the last couple of years lol.
Hey man I just wanted to tell you I love your videos and it’s really cool that you got a review up for a lot of games. I’d love to see you do the Hercules game though as I see you don’t have a review for it in the playlist.
@@n64glennplant no problem dude, just felt like I’ve watched so many of your videos and I’ve never commented so I figured I should tell you how much I enjoy the content.
Many memories renting this back in the day. Not sure if I own it to this day but be sure if I don't, I will hunt down a copy. Awesome review Glen. The expansion pak did have its rewards. I was skeptic at first when I originally bought it because of the few games that supported it but I'm glad I did.
Glenn plant, do you think once you cover every n64 game maybe you will cover all the game cube games? I'm enjoying your channel and it's awesome you've covered so many n64 games with so much information.
I remember when I first got it, my mom had bought me three games from somewhere and they were 007 goldeneye, duke nukem 64 ( odd choice for a four year old), and Rogue Squadron. Out of all three the one I was weakest in was rogue squadron but many years later I'd say I've become a damn good pilot. I still remember playing as luke skywalker and having a blast with me and all cousins. 10/10 game wish I still had a N64.
This game is a MASTERPIECE! It also looks amazing on my HDTV today. When you see this game in motion you wonder why all games on the N64 don't look this good. Factor 5 really knew how to push the N64. Again simply amazing! I forgot to add that the reason it looks good on my HDTV is because I am using the S-video cable and a S-video to HDMI upscaler adapter to bump the graphics to 1080p. This combined with the N64 Expansion Pak really shows what the N64 was capable of in high rez mode. Without the S-video cable and the upscaler it is almost unplayable on modern TVs. I hope that helps anyone trying to get better picture quality from their N64.
There's not enough words to explain how good this game is. It's funny the sound was one of the things I remember most the naboo fighter is my favorite craft so it's funny to learn that
P.S. You can buy the pc version of the game on Steam. And yes, it runs on 64 bit systems unlike the original CD. You can even use controllers and joysticks with it.
I feel like the inspiration for this game came from the cheats you can use in Shadows of the Empire flying missions to fly as any craft. The last level is a huge space battle between the rebels and the empire. Using the camera secret button combo you can switch from the Millenium Falcon type ship to a TI Fighter, TI Bomber, X Wing, etc. They even had their own sprites for the health color shaped like their respective ships even though you could only ever pilot them by using that cheat in the last level. So Lucas Arts may have already had the idea in the works for Rogue Squadron.
Our family picked this up at a flee market along with Zelda: Oracle of Ages (another masterpiece of course), and initially my older brothers could never get past Raid on Sullust (I was too young to get anywhere near that level myself at the time). They of course beat it some time later, and I think one of them got all golds, but it wasn't until a few years after that in like '06 when I was finally old enough (around 10) to finally give this game proper attention (was also grinding Star Fox 64 score runs at the time, very similar endeavors). Just like SF64 I grinded this game into the dust until (the last time I remember playing it during that era) I achieved an all 19 gold run sequentially with no resets. The game was really difficult to learn (at least at that age) but very satisfying to master and route/execute strategies effectively. There was definitely some BS involved though, namely in the 10th mission "Prisons of Kessel" where you had to wait for Storm Troopers to run out of the bunkers and kill them individually to reach the "enemies destroyed" quota for gold. The rest of the series is also phenomenal, especially how Rebel Strike allowed you to play through the entirety of Rogue Leader in co-op, but I never found quite the same love for those two as the original even though as I said I wasn't really able to get into this entry until after the series had concluded. I'd definitely like to go back to the GC titles but unfortunately they seem to be two of the worst running titles in my experience on the otherwise amazing Dolphin emulator.
Just bought my n64 along with this, surely will be the first of many in an awesome collection...now all I have to do is get body harvest and I'll be good till fall
I got mine with my jungle green 64 that came with dk64. Was very pleased this game had expansion pack support when I got it and have actually still never played or seen the game without that hardware boost.
Got this game for Christmas when I was 4. I remember hating the Raid of Sullust mission cuz I couldn't beat it. This makes me wanna play the game again after almost 20 years
10:50 I got my N64 for Christmas with Mario 64 and Shadows of the Empire. That, to me, was NOT a mixed bag and I loved it. Rogue Squadron is timeless and I have no idea how many hours I spent playing it and thinking about it when I wasn't playing it. I would be mowing the lawn or doing PE at school (Physical Education) and thinking about how to improve my time and score in a mission. Playing with the different ships and I'm the cockpit view was so immersive. I wish to this day that we would get a third proper Rogue Squadron game on modern consoles. RS2 on the game cube is why I bought a game cube. However, RS2's missions were not nearly as timeless. I mostly just played the Death Star 2 attack after defeating RS2, whereas I could still play three quarters of the RS1 missions today.
I only played this on the GameCube and its a fantastic game. This looks very similar and just as much fun. I loved trying to unlock stuff and obtaining medals which offered hours and hours of fun and sometimes frustration.
This was one me and my brother got at release (probably one of my brother's birthday presents) after seeing previews for it. I was a bit sceptical after being underwhelmed by SotE but after a few minutes I was hooked. We didn't have an Expansion Pak when we first got it but even in low res I thought the visuals were epic. And then later that year when we did get the Expansion Pak and unlocked the high res mode, it was simply visually amazing.
What is talked about at 1:54 is one of the reasons this game was so much better than rogue squadron 2. This game actually felt like a singular story, progressing from 1 unknown mission to the next. 2 was just a mash of "greatest hits" and the missions had no cohesion.
This is one of my top games of all time. I remember the level "Moff Seerdon's Revenge" being absolutely brutal. Took me forever to beat, but was absolutely worth the effort.
@@n64glennplant I did! After I beat the game, I went back and started gold medaling other missions, upgraded seeker torpedos and the naboo starfighter were the ticket to gold medaling it. After more effort, eventually gold medaled every mission.
I messed up 20 years ago when I sold my n64 to buy a ps1. But now I get to discover great n64 games like this and have much more fun with them than with new games
This was a MUST have N64 title when it came out in '98. An absolute blast to play, and play again and again for the medals. A nearly perfect game in most regards and remains a favorite of mine for the system.
I remember playing this game when I was younger. Yes I'm a new fan of the Stars Wars Series. I think rogue squadron is one of the best games Nintendo ever made.my favorite level in the game is barkhesh.
The night my Dad passed away I went home and played this game for hours. I don't remember much from that night, but I know I got lost in the game for hours. It helped the grieving process. Watched Star Wars movies with my Dad all the time so playing this game was cool.
I first played this game a day or 2 after my grandmother passed away. She was like my mother and it was really hard. I remember playing this game in my room while the funeral stuff was going on and my uncle came and berated me for playing a game during all the shit going on. My dad almost broke his nose for bugging us kids while we tried to find a moment of peace during that time. Will always be one of my favorite games.
Dude that is beautiful, hope your getting on alright bro
Nostalgia hits hard with this game. Spent crazy amount of hours playing this as a 9 year old. Alot of times, i'd just randomly fly around and explore places and admire the views.
What a beautiful game this was !!
I remember playing this game when I was 10
A true classic. One of my fav n64 games as a kid.
me too brother! even going back to play for this review was amazing, still loved it just as much!
haha thanks!
I still have this game on my N64.
One thing everyone fails to mention is loading times. N64 was quick. Hardly any noticeable load times. PS1 usually took a couple of minutes to boot a level.
@@englishtimewithmr.chrisspanish all my cartridges still work! N64 and SNES
Also the massive maps in the N64's open world titles. Ocarina, Majora's Mask, Body Harvest. I can't think of a single PS1 that looked that good with such large areas and detail.
Exactly! If this game was on the ps1 it would probably take about a year and a half for it to load
@Mr.Foxhat you named three n64 games that I played non stop!
i fucking loved this game, i remember i got it as a gift for christmas. the power had went out due to heavy snow so i went down to a family members house for a few days and i didnt put the controller down for days. id play till i fell asleep, wake up and keep playing the next day.
That happened to me, only during the gamecube generation... 😯 The game I played thanks to a generator was Baten Kaitos...
Raid on Sullust is my biggest memory from this. One of the hardest levels in any game Ive ever played.
I've gotten gold on every level multiple times and I've always remembered that that level in particular was extremely difficult to get gold on.
@@abstractdaddy1384 Funny thing is I remember how hard it was as it was one of the last levels I got gold in. On my second and third all gold play throughs I got it first try. There is a strategy to it that I had down those years ago.
I missed the gold by a second one time. A single enemy the next, and a single percent the time after that. I didn't rage quit, but I did go for a rage run.
@@jimmystooge thats hilarious...damn o_O what do you do for a living btw? Sound like a hard-charging persistent guy, lol
@@TheBooklyBreakdown no joke, human rights lawyer - that star wars stuff was a while ago.
I like how you tell the history of the development of these games.
Agreed.
Likewise
Amazing how good this game still looks.
DB Pooper Funny enough, I can say the same for RS2 on gamecube.
Tyler Williamson fuck yea the gamecube version especially for a launch title still looks freaken amazing! I remeber people talking about how it looked even better then the movies!..... if i were a young gamer right now and i saw someone playing the gamecube version but they lie to me by saying it was an xboxone/ps4 game, i would definitely believe it!....... But what makes the n64 version a bit more special is how good it still holds up today some 20 years later especially when you remember that its running on 64 bit hardware that was developed in the early 90s!
Yeah but ofc the PC version looks better than on the N64.
I remember my brother coming home one day after work with a brand new 64 shortly after launch with this, and an arcade/flight stick combo. Hooked it up, cranked up the surround sound, and oh my god. One of my all time favorite games on ANY console.
Anthony Obiedo i just hope that with the new star wars movies having the xwing in them we will get a new version! its a shame the wii version was cancelled as it looked superb being a remake of some of the classic rogue squadron levels
Great game. Strong mission variety, excellent controls, challenging levels, wonderful graphics, excellent sound, steep but rewarding difficulty curve. It had everything you could possibly want.
The trench run gold was something my father and I used to race to. Neither one of us were ever able to come in under that 2:42 mark needed for gold, until one summer, dad was in the yard, I was playing and basically speed running through the trench run (all this was about 5-6 months of work for us to 100% gold the game) and the next thing I know, I run a 2:33. My father was never able to get 100% gold because he couldn't beat that run. It was and still is, one of my top 3 favorite games of all time.
What a lovely memory to have
This was my favorite game out of all of my N64 games I played it more than Aerofighters Assault and Jet force Gemini. I regret not playing the 2nd and 3rd games that came out but a lot of stuff happened which prevented me from doing so. A remake of this game series would be a welcome to me and to all.
exactly the same as me. It took me forever to get a gamecube to play the sequels. It drove me mad when I was playing them on the demo kiosks in stores. I wanted my own copy so bad.
the "fog" effect I had all ways thought was intentional, for me it added to the over all feel like I was making my way through war fog hunting my enemies
its maybe better to think of it being intentional rather than just hardware limitations :)
either way the game kicks ass
In some cases it is intentional. Whether it fits the atmosphere, or whether they don't want to embrace pop-up as unabashedly as Sony did. I don't think Sony was capable of the fog effect, so they had to settle for pop-up.
fog is one of those kill 2 birds with one stine things when done properly. helps the game run better and adds to the atmosphere. in some remakes of games i've seen many fans upset by the removal of fog, claiming it lost the atmospheric feeling of the original.
Been playing Battlefront since it came out and...Rogue Squadron was doing the " "most authentic Star Wars experience" nearly 20 years ago...I feel like they used assets from this game in Battlefront lol
I'm pretty sure they had the take down the techo union ships in rouge squadron and the first battlefront.
This is definitely one of the best star wars games. I first got to play this at my cousins house the christmas after it came out and was addicted and played it for hours.
Its nice that you have all these star wars videos grouped together. I luckily got to them just in time to coincide with the new star wars movie.
Used to rent this game all the time until recently I reacquired a N64 and this was the first game I grabbed...Damn tht was a fun birthday present...Still is.
OMG This game was like, my entire early childhood!! I remember when my family barely got the 64 nd this was one of the games. It took 8-year old me about a year to pass missions 3 and 4, but that was how strong my dedication was to this game. Later I got Rogue Squadron II for the Gamecube and together with this...pure bliss...
My favorite N64 game! Love the gameplay! I also like entering in the cheat code CHICKEN to control an AT-ST for a level!
yeah the chicken walker 2 player level is rad, i didn't have anyone to play with me for the review otherwise i probably would have covered that mission too.
The second installment really hit home for me. I played this back then on the PC, but it was Rogue Squadron 2 that I loved.
Ordered this game as well as Shadows of the Empire online last year. So glad I have them now! Rogue Squadron is especially great! The controls and graphics are superb for an N64 game!
I just bought this game today! Got my N64 a few weeks ago and have been on the hunt for all my favorite games as a kid.
Great pick up!
So sad Factor5 isn't around anymore :(
Diablokiller999 they'd probably go the way of rare
Factor 5 is back with most of the old Devs, the CEO Eggebrecht is also back and they've got their Turrican licence also :D
Expansion pack was a mandatory for this great game! It was still fun loved it as a kid! Hopefully we can get this kind of game in the future :-)
Andrew Calean i would hope so too, shame about factor 5 as they were a great studio
Old republic was a awful game
I love this game my uncle and I would play this game for hours I remember one time my uncle showed me how to use coffee powder to trick my grandma into thinking I had diarrhea so she would call my school and tell them I'm sick that way I could stay home and play Rouge Squadron with him lol so whenever I play or hear someone talk about this game it brings back fun memories hanging out with my uncle.
Hah that’s such a cool memory 💩
A couple of times in this video, Glenn is brutally mowing down friendlies :)
N-sith-ty four Glenn Plant 👹
This game blew me away back in the day. The dog fighting from the very first missions is awesome. I’m going to play it again soon, and I know it will still hold up as a great experience.
I’ve jumped into virtual reality recently with the PSVR. Star Wars Squadrons is epic. But it’s testament to Rogue Squadron that, after being in virtual reality, I’m happy to then fire up the N64 and jump in.
The rock backing music you guys do for these star wars reviews are awesome
I love your reviews with all their backgrounder development info and equally important anecdotal stories.
Playing this for the first time in 2022 and it is AWESOME !!! I missed out on a lot of gems on the 64. Glad I can get them now and experience them. My son loves this too.
So cool to see people enjoying this for the first time in 2022
Fantastic game! I remember that it took me a *ton* of time to find all of the unlocks and get *all of the gold medals* to get the 3 bonus missions - and it was *so worth it* !
The Battle of Hoth alone (which needs you to get all of the gold medals) was just *brilliant* !
Wow. The memories of this game came rushing back to me. This was one of my favorite games ever.
Really enjoying your N64 vids. Huge part of my teenage years and can really relate to your personal experiences with buying and playing them.
Easily my fav game on the N64. I replayed it recently and it still holds up wonderfully, both graphically and gameplay.
I imagine the remaster on PC must be even better
It’s a lovely title, still so fun to play
Still got my cartridge, easily one of the best games I own, this and Rogue Leader are my two favourite console Star Wars games.
James Carthew same here. gotta add Rebel Strike, but mostly because they finally gave us multilayer dogfights and allowed us to play Rogue Leader with 2 players!!
I, too, remember that code for the Naboo Starfighter. It really was mindblowing to find out the ship had been hiding in the game the whole time. It was so cool for a development team to put that much additional bonus content in a game already rich with gameplay.
and may the force be with you too Glenn. What a superb game, and what an incredible review, loved all the stories you added in with this one and i had no idea about what the expansion pak was supposed to be originally used for. This video blew my mind.
My dear older brother bought the expansion pak for this game.
It really did make a difference, but not too many games supported it unfortunately.
yeah it wasn't originally designed for games and so i think too many devs didn't want to put the extra effort in. at least the games that did are generally cool
thanks for responding. I didnt know your channel until I saw this video. I subscribed to your channel so that I won't miss any of your videos. Keep up the excellent work sir! take care.
thank you very much, always around 2 videos a week right here so hopefully there will be more that you will like in the future :)
Honestly, I played shadows of the Empire just for the vehicle missions. It kept me going through the bad missions. This was a dream come true.
The rogue squadron series was 🔥 wasn’t it
@@n64glennplant yes I liked Rouge squadron 2 as well. Looking back, I should have bought the expansion ram earlier. I waited until majoras mask
The hidden N1 Naboo Starfighter was dope af. The fact that it remained a secret up until the release of The Phantom Menace was awesome.
Coming off of Star Fox 64, Star Wars Rogue Squadron was actually my first real foray into the Star Wars universe. So as you can guess, my favorite parts of the Star Wars movies are the parts where there is a dogfight of some sort going on. Fun fact: When I was a little kid, my mom and I used to joke that the picture used for Wedge Antillies in the movie looked like my grandfather. This joke was the earliest inspiration for a novel I am currently working on.
haha well here's another cool fact, my friends Mom was cast as Han Solos girlfriend in Star Wars. She filmed all the scenes etc and then George Lucas decided he didn't want Solo to have a girlfriend as it would soften his character too much so they cut all scenes with her in it. She still attends conventions today as big fans will know who she is but she missed out on the big payoff that the franchise went on to create
@@n64glennplant that's interesting. I didn't know they were going to give Han Solo a girlfriend.
Got and played Rogue Squadron for the first time around three years ago, and I still found it amazing!
Yeah it’s pretty 🔥
i never really played this. just replayed shadows of the empire and still loved it, gonna try this game out next.
@@Jack_80 I picked up Shadows of the Empire a few months ago, it's super clunky! Still really fun though.
I would highly recommend changing the controls for Rogue Squadron, IMO all but one of the pre-sets are terrible. I don't remember what the good one is called, but A and B controled speed, Z was to fire blasters, and R made you roll.
This game was pure magic. I remember not finding all of the codes until I had beaten the game, and it breathed new life into the fun. The graphics and music were perfect. the mission design and level design were amazing. The controls just worked, and the framerate was quite smooth.
As if this was 6 years ago! Great review, still a game I believe holds up today.
Published on Jan 12, 2014 ( *1138* days ago ) Perfect!
I loved this game as a kid. Still holds up, IMO.
I have this game but never finished because I'm just terrible at it. This review makes me want to go back and play it again.
This game man, this game is pure genious. I loved it so much.
The first person cockpit view was so much fun and underutilized in Let's Play videos here on RUclips.
Excellent review Glenn. I loved the bicycle trip through the snow part of getting to game store. True gamer style
miss actually having to make an effort to go get games, now its all online or pop out in the car to get games. so much less stress :(
So I just got the EON 64 and the MClassic and trying them combined on this game is amazing. It truly makes the graphics of this game a pleasure on modern tvs.
It'd probably look as good or better on a Sony Trinitron for 1/3 the price.
Naw, I'll stick to my setup. That CRT is pretty boss, but won't work spacewise for my setup. The HDMI and double line smoothing really helps. Though it almost looks like someone matte paint filtered the game on certain less graphical games and if you don't like that just turn off the eon 64's filter or remove the Mclassic from the equation.
n64 had some of the best star wars games
yeah no doubt about it!
i think nintendo al ways had the best star wars games from super star wars on the snes to rogue leader on the gamecube
yeah thats for sure!
So true! Shadows of the Empire, Rogue Squadron, Episode 1 Racer, and Battle for Naboo are all excellent. N64 is the only system I can say that all Star Wars released for that console ended up being amazing.
@@SkyScourgeGod shadows of the empire may still be my favorite star wars game ever. nothing ever quite matched the awe and intensity of flying around with the jetpack for me. and replaying it recently, the bossfights are still amazing and epic, especially boba fett.
Really amazing game, i remember playing this as a kid and never was able to finish it until last year (2014) . Got every mission with gold finally :3
Nercro Mansy thats one heck of an achievement! well done
*****
i tried some missions about 50 times especially those rocket towers are hard to beat because they destroy you so fast
20 years ago I had this game.....just picked up a copy for €10 so now letting my kids have all the fun again. This time I will search for all the best n64 games and keep them for ever.
Awesome parent right here 👍
you will have to do a new list of best (easily obtainable) N64 games, or talk about the HDMI upgrade and your views on if it is worth it. some games are hard to get hold of (paper mario for example) so my collection will be limited. keep up the good work, we know the list is not endless...hopefully the new N64 classic will give you more material...if and when it comes. off subject, the other game i liked was Tremulous, it was a linux FPS/squad game, did you every try it? it is now called unvanquished...think i must be a bit old school.
it's a "must use the expansion pack" for this game
I totally agree, it makes a big difference :-)
Then how can you possibly claim this? It makes a huge difference.
I don't have the game but you are wrong, what a troll
You have covered it all in this one GP! A must buy for anyone with an N64. I remember going to a friends house and blowing his mind with some of those codes. The game was challenging, but not impossible to 100%. If it wasn't for that sticker on the jump Pak that says "do not remove" I might have been allowed to use the expansion :(.
well at least you could go back now and play it with the expansion and see the difference! it really makes it go from great to amazing!
your reviews are amazing, i still play this game to this day.
ah thank you man i really appreciate it that you enjoy them! i love this game too
Originally I thought that I wouldn't remember this game very well but after watching this I realized how well I remembered this game and had a very nostalgic moment just remembering all the fun I had with this game as a kid and how cool it was at finding all this new awesome information I could find out on this game on the internet as a kid
I loved this game..the best was how the naboo starfighter was a hidden unlock before Phantom Menace came out. My only complaint was it needed space level combat.
This game was the number one reason my brothers and I wanted a Nintendo 64. We never saw or knew of anything like it before since we were very young and had limited awareness of the gaming landscape. Heck, I don't think I knew about Zelda or Mario until after we got the N64; but, when we finally bought ourselves one, Rogue Squadron was one of the first few titles we got for the system.
The thing I most remember about the game was the fact that none of us could get a gold medal for the Mission on Fest where you had to protect Rebel AT-PTs. My brothers and I were able to get gold medals on all the other missions but this one was seeming impossible as one AT-PT would always fall before we could bring down the first AT-AT or shortly thereafter. Even cheats couldn't help with that.
Nonetheless, the game met our expectations and we thoroughly enjoyed the it.
i always love hearing peoples memories about how they found levels tough or missions they got stuck on. i loved trying to speed run the death star trench run and used to be able to do it with my foils closed for the whole time in the xwing speeding through until the last second :)
I just got this game and I got an HD cable for my n64!!! LOOKS AMAZING. some old games are so good that you can just pick them up and play. Amazing how back in the day some devs really figured out how to make solid controls while most other game companies/studios still made games with awful controls and horrible camera angles!!! 7:13 those missile are freaking brutal!!!
May the force be with you lord Glen ! You have made me wanna pull the n64 out and play this right now ! :-)
still one of the best on the console and doing a barrel roll makes r2d2 fall out and beep like a homeless meth head :D
One of my first N64 games as a kid, loved it 👍
and i think an Easter Egg Hunter episode will be on the cards, though it would be awesome to do one with you since you know your star wars and N64.
thanks....so many easter eggs in this one it would make a cool video of its own! :)
great idea 2 of my favourite youtubers combined that would be pretty fantastic
everyday on youtube i regret choosing that name haha :)
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I purchased this game with my saved up money as a kid back in the day from either a kb toys or toys-r-us in the u.s, it was $25- $30 I believe. I had recently been introduced to the original trilogy of SW movies on VHS by a family friend. It was one of my best purchases ever at a time when I didn't think to look up reviews for games in magazines, although I did get to play a demo for it and jedi knight on a disc that came with our sony vaio desktop. I put countless hours into this game and still fire it up occasionally to this day. Sadly I only purchased an expansion pak in the last couple of years lol.
you were missing out that whole time!
Hey man I just wanted to tell you I love your videos and it’s really cool that you got a review up for a lot of games. I’d love to see you do the Hercules game though as I see you don’t have a review for it in the playlist.
Thanks I hope to get the final 30 or so left covered soon enough
@@n64glennplant no problem dude, just felt like I’ve watched so many of your videos and I’ve never commented so I figured I should tell you how much I enjoy the content.
Many memories renting this back in the day. Not sure if I own it to this day but be sure if I don't, I will hunt down a copy. Awesome review Glen. The expansion pak did have its rewards. I was skeptic at first when I originally bought it because of the few games that supported it but I'm glad I did.
maybe i should do a top 5 friday n64 expansion pack games when i bring the series back this year!
An epic game, with a sequel on the Gamecube that was equally awe inspiring in its technical achievement and game design.
Glenn plant, do you think once you cover every n64 game maybe you will cover all the game cube games? I'm enjoying your channel and it's awesome you've covered so many n64 games with so much information.
not all of them but I will likely cover some
Oh my God. When you put in the password for the naboo fighter it unlocked a cote memory. I was so young, but I remember using that code.
I remember when I first got it, my mom had bought me three games from somewhere and they were 007 goldeneye, duke nukem 64 ( odd choice for a four year old), and Rogue Squadron. Out of all three the one I was weakest in was rogue squadron but many years later I'd say I've become a damn good pilot. I still remember playing as luke skywalker and having a blast with me and all cousins. 10/10 game wish I still had a N64.
This game is a MASTERPIECE! It also looks amazing on my HDTV today. When you see this game in motion you wonder why all games on the N64 don't look this good. Factor 5 really knew how to push the N64. Again simply amazing!
I forgot to add that the reason it looks good on my HDTV is because I am using the S-video cable and a S-video to HDMI upscaler adapter to bump the graphics to 1080p. This combined with the N64 Expansion Pak really shows what the N64 was capable of in high rez mode. Without the S-video cable and the upscaler it is almost unplayable on modern TVs. I hope that helps anyone trying to get better picture quality from their N64.
There's not enough words to explain how good this game is. It's funny the sound was one of the things I remember most the naboo fighter is my favorite craft so it's funny to learn that
I remember getting this and turok 2 around the same time when the ram pack came out and it was bliss. Such a great time in gaming
P.S. You can buy the pc version of the game on Steam. And yes, it runs on 64 bit systems unlike the original CD. You can even use controllers and joysticks with it.
I knew this would be gold from the first article about it in Expert Gamer.
Awesome vid! I loved this game on the N64. I loved flying the Y-wing most of all.
Never forget my fist gold medal on search for the noona. Man this game was fantastic
I feel like the inspiration for this game came from the cheats you can use in Shadows of the Empire flying missions to fly as any craft.
The last level is a huge space battle between the rebels and the empire. Using the camera secret button combo you can switch from the Millenium Falcon type ship to a TI Fighter, TI Bomber, X Wing, etc.
They even had their own sprites for the health color shaped like their respective ships even though you could only ever pilot them by using that cheat in the last level. So Lucas Arts may have already had the idea in the works for Rogue Squadron.
Oh yes. See, there was a cheat in Rogue Squadron to unlock Naboo fighters which were going to be in the sequel.
Yup I discussed those in the review I did of the game years ago on the channel 👍
Our family picked this up at a flee market along with Zelda: Oracle of Ages (another masterpiece of course), and initially my older brothers could never get past Raid on Sullust (I was too young to get anywhere near that level myself at the time). They of course beat it some time later, and I think one of them got all golds, but it wasn't until a few years after that in like '06 when I was finally old enough (around 10) to finally give this game proper attention (was also grinding Star Fox 64 score runs at the time, very similar endeavors). Just like SF64 I grinded this game into the dust until (the last time I remember playing it during that era) I achieved an all 19 gold run sequentially with no resets.
The game was really difficult to learn (at least at that age) but very satisfying to master and route/execute strategies effectively. There was definitely some BS involved though, namely in the 10th mission "Prisons of Kessel" where you had to wait for Storm Troopers to run out of the bunkers and kill them individually to reach the "enemies destroyed" quota for gold. The rest of the series is also phenomenal, especially how Rebel Strike allowed you to play through the entirety of Rogue Leader in co-op, but I never found quite the same love for those two as the original even though as I said I wasn't really able to get into this entry until after the series had concluded. I'd definitely like to go back to the GC titles but unfortunately they seem to be two of the worst running titles in my experience on the otherwise amazing Dolphin emulator.
2:49 for "four main mission types" they didnt feel repetitive. they mixed it up enough to make them feel like it was something new despite familiar.
Just bought my n64 along with this, surely will be the first of many in an awesome collection...now all I have to do is get body harvest and I'll be good till fall
really nice review, as always, except the metal music in the background all the way, would prefere to hear the game's music and sound effects.
one of those few games thats worth 100%'ing I also bought the expansion pack specifically for this game
I’d agree with that, it’s a good investment of anyone’s time 😬
I got mine with my jungle green 64 that came with dk64. Was very pleased this game had expansion pack support when I got it and have actually still never played or seen the game without that hardware boost.
Awesome review! So many great Star Wars games came out in the late nineties!
yeah and then after the new trilogy they went a bit lame again for a while.
I lover SotE and flight combat games, so when this came I snatched it right up. I never regretted a single N64 Star Wars purchase.
I like the fact that in SoTE , you can play with the X-Wing! lol kinda predicting Rogue Squadron
Got this game for Christmas when I was 4. I remember hating the Raid of Sullust mission cuz I couldn't beat it. This makes me wanna play the game again after almost 20 years
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I got my N64 for Christmas with Mario 64 and Shadows of the Empire. That, to me, was NOT a mixed bag and I loved it.
Rogue Squadron is timeless and I have no idea how many hours I spent playing it and thinking about it when I wasn't playing it. I would be mowing the lawn or doing PE at school (Physical Education) and thinking about how to improve my time and score in a mission.
Playing with the different ships and I'm the cockpit view was so immersive.
I wish to this day that we would get a third proper Rogue Squadron game on modern consoles. RS2 on the game cube is why I bought a game cube. However, RS2's missions were not nearly as timeless. I mostly just played the Death Star 2 attack after defeating RS2, whereas I could still play three quarters of the RS1 missions today.
I remender being blown away by the graphics, it was like being in the movie! Loll Everything was perfect about this game, a real classic!
yeah I still love this game too, such a blast
Just picked up this gem at a pawn shop for $1. Yup. $1. I played it a TON back in '99 and '00, and I'm excited to dive back in.
This game was $59.99 new which is $88 in today's terms. So you saved $87 if you paid $1.
I only played this on the GameCube and its a fantastic game. This looks very similar and just as much fun. I loved trying to unlock stuff and obtaining medals which offered hours and hours of fun and sometimes frustration.
yeah the sequels on the gamecube were cool but this is where it all started :)
Rogue Squadron is some of the best star wars content period with the novels the comics and the video games.
This was one me and my brother got at release (probably one of my brother's birthday presents) after seeing previews for it.
I was a bit sceptical after being underwhelmed by SotE but after a few minutes I was hooked.
We didn't have an Expansion Pak when we first got it but even in low res I thought the visuals were epic.
And then later that year when we did get the Expansion Pak and unlocked the high res mode, it was simply visually amazing.
What is talked about at 1:54 is one of the reasons this game was so much better than rogue squadron 2. This game actually felt like a singular story, progressing from 1 unknown mission to the next. 2 was just a mash of "greatest hits" and the missions had no cohesion.
This is one of my top games of all time. I remember the level "Moff Seerdon's Revenge" being absolutely brutal. Took me forever to beat, but was absolutely worth the effort.
Did you ever manage to get gold medal on it?
@@n64glennplant I did! After I beat the game, I went back and started gold medaling other missions, upgraded seeker torpedos and the naboo starfighter were the ticket to gold medaling it. After more effort, eventually gold medaled every mission.
I messed up 20 years ago when I sold my n64 to buy a ps1. But now I get to discover great n64 games like this and have much more fun with them than with new games
This was a MUST have N64 title when it came out in '98. An absolute blast to play, and play again and again for the medals. A nearly perfect game in most regards and remains a favorite of mine for the system.
I remember playing this game when I was younger. Yes I'm a new fan of the Stars Wars Series. I think rogue squadron is one of the best games Nintendo ever made.my favorite level in the game is barkhesh.
I loved both Rogue Squadron and Shadows of the Empire. I would absolutely LOVE to see a Shadows remake!
shadows is one of those games that is made more enjoyable with cheats lol
WHY did you ever change from this intro music ? SOO much better then the others !!
Amazing game and couldn't get enough of it as a kid. Never knew about the Naboo fighter though!