Via Starwars.com:

THE BELOVED PODRACING GAME HAS BEEN RE-RELEASED ON PC.

It’s a great time for Star Wars fans who play games.

A batch of fan-favorite titles — including Knights of the Old Republic II and Republic Commando — were recently added to the Xbox One backward compatibility program, and now Lucasfilm and Disney are dropping another classic on PC to celebrate May the 4th. Star Wars Episode I: Racer is available in a newly optimized edition on GOG (featuring LAN Multiplayer support), and it offers the same thrilling experience you remember.

When Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, or Episode I, was released in May 1999, it brought with it a windfall of exciting new Star Wars games. With a worldwide audience eager for new content, the era of the prequels saw more video games set in the galaxy far, far away than ever before. The next three years saw the release of several all-new Star Wars games, many of them bigger and more ambitious than anything previously produced. The first truly great game of that era, Star Wars Episode I: Racer, arrived in stores the day before Episode I hit theaters.

Like young Anakin Skywalker, the game’s all about racing through alien landscapes at impossible speeds. In The Phantom Menace, George Lucas introduced moviegoers to the world of podracing, a galaxy-spanning sport in which pilots race to the finish line in cockpits pulled by massive jet engines. Episode I: Racer takes the spectacular fifteen-minute racing sequence from the film and turns it into gold: an arcade-style racer unlike anything else in the Star Wars games catalog (outside of its 2002 sequel, Star Wars: Racer Revenge).

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