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\nShadows of the Empire does not appear on best Star Wars video game lists. It is not fondly remembered (or is it?<\/a>). Parts of it are quite bad, in truth. But it will always be my favourite Star Wars game.\n<\/p>\n

\nI was tremendously excited, a teenager bouncing off the walls of our temporary Tooting home in South London. My dad had promised he’d buy me an N64 and a couple of games for my 16th birthday in June 1997. Nintendo’s new console had only released on these shores a few months prior, and I had patiently waited. Well, not so patiently.\n<\/p>\n

\nMy mum and three siblings had already left the UK to live in Dublin, leaving my father and I in London so I could finish my GCSEs. He was sick, then, from a cancer that would eventually consume him a year later. It was an extremely difficult time, not that I showed it. My N64 and Star Wars Shadows of the Empire would help me through that summer until we joined the rest of my family in Ireland.\n<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – eurogamer.net<\/p>\n

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