Star Wars Episode I: Racer it 3rd in their list of top Star Wars games. That same year it placed 10th in Rock, Paper, Shotgun's top "Star Wars" games list. In "Game Informer"'s 2016 list of the 30 best "Star Wars" video games "Racer" ranked 11th. , the game holds the Guinness record for the best-selling sci-fi racing game having worldwide sales of 3.12 million beating other series like "Wipeout" and "F-Zero". The editors of "Computer Gaming World" nominated "Racer" for their 1999 "Racing Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to "". Star Wars Episode I: Racer Star Wars Episode I: Racer is
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Lucas decided the movies would work best as a trilogy. In the final act of the trilogy's final episode, "Return of the Jedi", Vader is ultimately redeemed through an act of sacrifice for Luke. This was in 1983, more than six years since the release of "Star Wars". Lucas admitted to being "burned out" and announced he would take a break from working on the saga. Throughout the 1980s, George Lucas remarked he had no desire to return to "Star Wars" and had unofficially canceled his sequel trilogy by the time of "Return of the Jedi". Because Lucas had developed