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Video Game I.D. Help, Please!..............

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Hello, Everyone!

A co-worker of mine, who knows I'm a big Star Wars fan, asked me to help him identify a video game he remembered playing years ago. He says the game must have come out before November of 1996 ('cause that's when he played it). The stage of the game he played featured a character jumping from what he described as "train car to train car". This "train" moved from the foreground toward the background (thus, most likely a scrolling-effect).

I may be a Star Wars fan but I'm not much of a gamer so I couldn't really help him. However, some elements he remembers from that stage he played are: a junkpile & Boba Fett. He mentioned Cloud City. My first guess was Super Empire Strikes Back for the Super Nintendo but he didn't think that guess was right.

Do these clues sound familiar to anyone? We are trying to figure out the name of the game & the platform he probably played it on.

Any clues / information would be most appreciated! Thanks, gang.

May the Force be with you.

Sincerely,
sidemachine
"Bring 'em on!!! I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around!"
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Well, there is the Junk Pile and The train hopping, but Boba Fett was in a different stage.


I believe that the game which he seeks is Shadows of the Empire for the N64. It was a fairly generic and altogether unbalanced action/platformer following Dash Rendar, one of Han Solo's old buddies, as he fought the Empire and Black Sun behind the scenes.

It is most remembered for its amazing(for its time) Hoth level, which as served as the template for the Hoth Levels in many subsequent games. It was sort of fun, but some of the missions are mind-numbinly easy, and others have stupidly hard segments. The junk-pile fight with IG-88 is one of the hardest Boss batles in any N64 game.

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Damn you IG-88!
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I understand the sentiment, despite the questionable choice of wording.


Serioulsy, though, if you can find Shadows for less than ten bucks, go for it. It is entertaining. It just has a ridiculously fickle difficulty.

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Nice to see that you added Snake Eater to your tag (despite the comment attached)
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Originally posted by: sidemachine
Hello, Everyone!

A co-worker of mine, who knows I'm a big Star Wars fan, asked me to help him identify a video game he remembered playing years ago. He says the game must have come out before November of 1996 ('cause that's when he played it). The stage of the game he played featured a character jumping from what he described as "train car to train car". This "train" moved from the foreground toward the background (thus, most likely a scrolling-effect).

I may be a Star Wars fan but I'm not much of a gamer so I couldn't really help him. However, some elements he remembers from that stage he played are: a junkpile & Boba Fett. He mentioned Cloud City. My first guess was Super Empire Strikes Back for the Super Nintendo but he didn't think that guess was right.

Do these clues sound familiar to anyone? We are trying to figure out the name of the game & the platform he probably played it on.

Any clues / information would be most appreciated! Thanks, gang.

May the Force be with you.

Sincerely,
sidemachine


I remmeber that game, that's an old SW game for the N64, Jedi... something. I'll get the name of the game later.
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OK I got it, it's Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, for the N64.

http://www.gamespot.com/n64/adventure/starwarsshadowsoftheempire/index.html
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Darth Chaltab & All,

Thank you for the information! I will be sure to pass it along to my co-worker. Much obliged.

May the [Good Side of the] Force be with you.

Sincerely,
sidemachine
"Bring 'em on!!! I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around!"