Shadows Of The Empire - A Star Wars Retrospective

Shadows of the Empire was a 1996 Star Wars multimedia Lucasfilm project which offered all the fanfare of a movie release without the movie. Consisting of a N64 video game, a book, comic series, toy line, role playing game, soundtrack and more it paved the way for modern Star Wars projects and marketing. It's a pretty long video. Thanks for watching.

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[mrsundaymovies]

Thanks for the patience on this one, it was a long time coming. Any suggestions for the next project?

[nognaught]

okay, those cg recreations are honestly incredible. without a doubt the best bit of star wars content that ever came out of shadows of the empire

[trumanderee]

It's incredible that Steve Perry was able to write all those novels while being the lead singer of Journey

[AmarHujan]

Ah the fabled Sunday Magnum Opus.
*Turns on my chair whilst stroking a cat*: I've been waiting for you

[EckhartsLadder]

Coruscant appeared visually in Star Wars Tie Fighter in 1994. It was called Imperial Center, like in Dark Empire.
Amazing video.

[TheLoreMasterYT]

This video was excellent! Love learning the behind the scenes of Lucasfilm when it comes to the creation of multi-media projects and their later influence in future Star Wars projects. Hope to see something similar done of the Clone Wars multi-Media project!

[jonathanbywater]

Who else is excited for MaClunky: A Star Wars Story?

[katiepersons]

The N64's storage may have been a limitation at the time, though the artwork filling in for cutscenes has aged a hell of a lot better than the animated cutscenes in the PC version.

[generaluncoman]

I was convinced as a 10 year old that the Star Wars movies were called:
A New Hope
Shadows of the Empire
Return of the Jedi

[Potato_n_Tomato]

Ahh back when the Martian Manhunter was part of the empire.

[tonymassa]

Gonna leave a comment just to show that I appreciate the work Mr.Sunday put into the video

[heavyspoilers]

Been waiting for this for a while and it didn’t disappoint, great work

[battleupsaber]

I will says this about Shadows of the Empire:






It's definitely a piece of fiction that's part of the Star Wars franchise

[joshm]

This is still my favorite Star Wars story outside of the original trilogy. The novel and the N64 game are amazing and Dash Rendar is one of the best Star Wars Legends characters. Great video.

[dustypixelsUE]

The quality of this artwork is insane. I’m setting a new goal to his this kind of level. :o

[UPNONE]

I spent my whole life thinking I was playing as Han Solo on the N64.

[seanbrazell]

After seeing this fantastic vid I realized why Rise of Skywalker Just didn't work for me. I realized that you cannot have the emperor without Darth Vader. That dynamic is absolutely necessary because both of them are half a characters. Only together are they really this individual that comes to life. It doesn't matter that they're hardly ever together in the original movies only that they both are there.
In fact I think the real reason vader died in the end was because he figuratively AND literally killed half of himself in the act of saving luke.

[danielclark]

Shadows of the Empire is my favorite Star Wars EU story of all-time!

[SaulGMV]

HERE'S ALL THE BOOKS, HERE WE GO...

[comicpop]

What an amazing video! I am so grateful to be included in this, thank you so much! Seriously, this is such a great distillation of info and entertainment. Great work all around!