Star Wars: Racer Arcade "fancier, beefier version of "Episode I: Racer"." Star Wars: Racer Arcade Star Wars: Racer Arcade is a 2000 arcade racing game developed by AM5 and LucasArts and released by Sega. It is based on the Podrace scenes in the 1999 film "". It was unveiled at ATEI in London in 2000. It features four tracks, Tatooine (Easy) Bantha Tracks, Etti IV (Normal), Smuggler's Cove, Malastare (Hard) Pixelito Challenge has four laps and Tatooine (Expert) Boonta Eve Classic has three laps. Four Podracer pilots are available for play, including Anakin Skywalker, Ben Quadinaros, Gasgano and Sebulba. The player controls the podracer
Star Wars Episode I: Racer from the film were also reused. The podracers were recreated using specifications from the film, and the Tatooine environment was also sourced from the film. Several of the game's other locales had never appeared in a "Star Wars" game prior. The varied environments, Tosti said, were "to add more depth to the gameplay." During an IGN interview with LucasArts' Tom Byron at E3 1999 the question of online play was brought up. Byron was unsure, citing problems "mostly because of latency issues." Some multiplayer code from "" was utilized for "Episode I: Racer". Ultimately internet play was not included. The