Longplay of Star Wars: Episode I — Battle for Naboo

Longplay of Star Wars: Episode I — Battle for Naboo, played as the NTSC version on the Nintendo 64. This game's version was released on Dec. 18th, 2000. Tell us what you think by leaving a comment down below!

0:00:00 - Start
0:01:33 - Opening (muted)
0:03:30 - Mission 01: Escape from Theed
0:07:03 - Mission 02: Neimodian Plunder
0:15:02 - Mission 03: Naboo Bayou
0:20:00 - Mission 04: Smuggler Alliance
0:28:45 - Mission 05: Hutt's Retreat
0:33:48 - Mission 06: Disruption of Comm 4
0:43:53 - Mission 07: Glacial Grave
0:53:03 - Mission 08: The Andrevea River
1:03:19 - Mission 09: Sanctuary
1:11:52 - Mission 10: Search for Captain Kael
1:17:52 - Mission 11: Borvo the Hutt
1:23:57 - Mission 12: Liberaton of Camp 4
1:38:46 - Mission 13: The Queen's Gambit
1:46:10 - Mission 14: Panaka's Diversion
1:53:04 - Mission 15: Battle for Naboo
2:00:31 - Ending & credits

2:06:25 - Secret Mission 1: Trade Federation Secrets
2:12:40 - Secret Mission 2: Coruscant Encounter
2:16:19 - Secret Mission 3: The Dark Side

[longplayarchive]

This is a pretty awesome Star Wars game. It’s much like Rogue Squadron. All missions completed, including the bonus ones. Not all gold medals. Most stages were done under the gold medal time requirement but lacked in hit accuracy.. so an all gold medal run wouldn’t have changed the footage all too much except for me shooting a little less frantically. Opening sequence had to be muted as it’s popular for blocking mobile viewership. Rest of the video surprisingly came out copyright free, yay! So no 100 ads being spammed by the copyright holders :)

[SparkyMK]

One thing I really appreciate about Battle for Naboo is that it fixes one of the biggest flaws of The Phantom Menace: that we DONT get to see the impact the Trade Federation invasion is having on the people of Naboo. In the movie, they just strut into Theed completely unopposed as a show of force and are made into scrap metal every time they come across the heroes, and we only get very brief glimpses of the civilians. Sure, theres a blockade and people are taken into camps, but the effects are all offstage. Aside from the big ground/space battle at the end, the movie expects you to read between the lines or take Gunray and Sio Bibbles word for it that the Naboo are dying. In this game, we outright get to see the impact theyre having on the planet. They arent playing around or operating on "Gunboat Diplomacy" to show up the Republic, theyre flat out committing mass genocide on a virtually helpless population (it says a lot that even the Battle Droids come off as a genuine threat, since theres no Jedi on hand to clean em up, and theres no chance of the civilians trying to reason with what amounts to an entire army of Terminators) and forcing any survivors into slavery, and all purely out of greed! The TF are spelling out that they are not bluffing--mess with them, and youll get plowed over, but even if you dont mess with them, they really dont care about who lives or dies anyway. The bottom line is all that matters to them. The fact that Theed is completely empty of civilians during "Panakas Diversion" shows us this without flat out saying it (whereas in the first mission, you had the option to rescue some civilians from the droids). I know this game isnt considered canon anymore, but it really sold me on the stakes the movie was trying to convey and helped contextualize its events: Naboo is on the brink, and (as far as the few stragglers like Gavin know) theres no knight in shining armor coming to save them from this invasion, so they have to fight tooth and nail with what they can find just to survive as long as they can.

[G.L.]

Such an underrated N64 classic! Didn't get the recognition it deserved! Glad to see it getting some exposure!

[TheFred]

n64 had excellent star wars games... rogue squadron, shadows of the empire(my fav), episode 1 racer and this battle for naboo..

[emmajade]

This is amazing, thanks for the upload. To me, this is greatest Star Wars game on the N64. The music, voiceovers and missions are just so memorable.

[Der_Arndt]

played this on PC in my childhood. One of the best Star Wars games I've ever played. Its very sad that they did't do this type of star wars games anymore

[feichin]

Longplay of Star Wars Episode I: Battle for Naboo, played as the NTSC version on the Nintendo 64. This game's version was released on Dec. 18th, 2000. Tell us what you think by leaving a comment down below!

0:00:00 - Start
0:01:33 - Opening (muted)
0:03:30 - Mission 01: Escape from Theed
0:07:03 - Mission 02: Neimodian Plunder
0:15:02 - Mission 03: Naboo Bayou
0:20:00 - Mission 04: Smuggler Alliance
0:28:45 - Mission 05: Hutt's Retreat
0:33:48 - Mission 06: Disruption of Comm 4
0:43:53 - Mission 07: Glacial Grave
0:53:03 - Mission 08: The Andrevea River
1:03:19 - Mission 09: Sanctuary
1:11:52 - Mission 10: Search for Captain Kael
1:17:52 - Mission 11: Borvo the Hutt
1:23:57 - Mission 12: Liberaton of Camp 4
1:38:46 - Mission 13: The Queen's Gambit
1:46:10 - Mission 14: Panaka's Diversion
1:53:04 - Mission 15: Battle for Naboo
2:00:31 - Ending & credits

2:06:25 - Secret Mission 1: Trade Federation Secrets
2:12:40 - Secret Mission 2: Coruscant Encounter
2:16:19 - Secret Mission 3: The Dark Side

[luciebureau]

I think this is the only Star Wars movie who has more that one video game adaptation(free of accurate).

[agentmanface]

Camp 4 was always the hardest mission for me

[isaacrodriguez]

Someday I hope this along with Rogue Squadron can come to the Expansion Pack. Eventually….

[darobster]

I'd never even heard of this one. Looks pretty cool.

[UltimaKeyMaster]

"WATCH YOUR FIRE"
*ally immediately shoots you right after*

[RelativeStrengthFit]

Played it in 2001. Might play it again :)

[LITTLE]

Feels much like the Rouge Squadron game, as I can tell this used the same game engine.

[jhkuno]

This game pushes the N64 to its limits, in terms of sound and graphics theres not much beyond this.

[tonystank]

They definitely made the music with the Rogue Squadron *2* program, rather than the Rogue Squadron *1* program.

[dracosamm]

Ah yes, *the Prelude to the Skywalker Storyline* before Anakin Skywalker becomes *We know Who*

[pollypocketfan]

Have you ever thought of doing a Longplay of the GameBoy Advance game based off of Disney's Brother Bear? It's a pretty fun game based off the Disney Movie Brother Bear.

[jt]

Impressive for the N64, looks almost as good as an early PS2 or GameCube game, not quite, but it looks like they pushed the N64 as far as it could go.

[Rokabur]

It's just too bad Factor 5 closed down after Sony intentionally sabotaged them by forcing them to only use the PS3 gyro controls in Lair.