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 opening crawl galaxy far, far away...", followed by the "Star Wars" logo shrinking in front of a field of stars. Initially the logo's extremities are beyond the edge of the frame. While the logo is retreating, the "crawl" text begins, starting with the film's episode number and subtitle (with the exception of the original release of "Star Wars" – see below), and followed by a three-paragraph prologue to the film. The text scrolls up and away from the bottom of the screen towards a vanishing point above the top of the frame in a perspective projection. Each version of the opening crawl