![]() ![]() Shadows of the Empire thrusts you into this wonderful snowscape and charges you with shooting down droids and AT-STs as the battle rages around you. You play Dash Rendar (what a name!) who, alongside his droid Leebo, has a brief chat with Han Solo before jumping into a snowspeeder to fend off the Empire's invasion. Shadows of the Empire starts with a mission set within The Empire Strikes Back's famous Battle of Hoth scene. As soon as we got home I rushed to set up the N64 and slapped Shadows of the Empire in the console, breathless with anticipation. It was a short drive to Dixons and a short drive back, although I remember it feeling like it took forever. ![]() My N64 and Star Wars Shadows of the Empire would help me through that summer until we joined the rest of my family in Ireland. ![]() It was an extremely difficult time, not that I showed it. ![]() He was sick, then, from a cancer that would eventually consume him a year later. My mum and three siblings had already left the UK to live in Dublin, leaving my father and I in London so I could finish my GCSEs. Nintendo's new console had only released on these shores a few months prior, and I had patiently waited. My dad had promised he'd buy me an N64 and a couple of games for my 16th birthday in June 1997. I was tremendously excited, a teenager bouncing off the walls of our temporary Tooting home in South London. But it will always be my favourite Star Wars game. It is not fondly remembered ( or is it?). Shadows of the Empire does not appear on best Star Wars video game lists. ![]()
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