There is a disturbance in the force, and the Jedi are there to find its source. There is a whole Armada of Battleships and troops besieging a planet and two Jedi knights come to protect the planet.

This Star Wars title from Lucas Arts is completely based on the movie Phantom Menace. It is basically an action game in which you play a number of characters from the movie, solve a number of puzzles, beat down enemies with your light saber or laser guns and follow the footsteps of the movie. But remember, you will follow a different trail to the same ultimate ending.

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Alternate Titles

"Star Wars: Episodio I : La Minaccia Fantasma" -- Italian title
"Star Wars: Episodio I - La Amenaza Fantasma" -- Spanish title
"Star Wars: Episódio I - A Ameaça Fantasma" -- Brazilian title
"Star Wars: Episode I: La menace fantôme" -- French title
"Star Wars - Episode 1: Die Dunkle Bedrohung" -- German title

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace	Windows	$2.00
	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
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User Reviews

Well... it could be worse	Ivan Obretenov (9)
It's like the movie.... you know, flashy and dumb.	Zovni (9426)	unrated
The worst Star Wars movie based video game.....	James Kirk (159)	unrated

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The Press Says

Gamezilla	Jul 16, 1999	81 out of 100	81
Game Over Online	May 25, 1999	78 out of 100	78
PC Zone	Aug 13, 2001	7.8 out of 10	78
Power Unlimited	Aug, 1999	7.4 out of 10	74
Game.EXE	Jun, 1999	3.5 out of 5	70
JeuxVideoPC.com	Apr 16, 2005	13 out of 20	65
GameGenie	1999		60
All Game Guide	1999		60
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Aug, 1999		30
Spel för Alla	Aug, 1999	3 out of 10	30

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Trivia

Box

The original (non-Archive Collection) versions of the box had various silly things hidden under some box flaps, that were different for alternate versions of the box (there were lots). Examples:

"WOOKIE!" "Graaahr." "Battel DROIDID!"

Content

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace contains a few scenes that were in early versions of the screenplay but never made it to the final cut of the film (most noteably Obi-wan Kenobi rising out of the waters of the Naboo swamp while the Federation tanks hovers by).

PC Player review

The German magazine PC Player gave the game a bad review and received an angry letter from Multimedia Handelspartner EG, most likely the German distributor of the game. PC Player printed some quotes in the editorial of issue 08/1999, e.g. that a bad review is a slap in the face for every fan, that the magazine should work out new evaluation possibilities together with the industry or that some silly persons should not judge products costing millions to produce. The editorial in German language can be seen here.