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Then DICE announced Battlefront,
and I peed a little bit.

on the surface of the Death Star. That’s a great sales
pitch, by all accounts, so the machine has gained a
fair amount of attention from press and fans alike.

So that didn’t help matters. By the time I
actually got to Star Wars: Battle Pod, all I wanted

Of course, you may be reading still perplexed by

to do was transport myself to that galaxy far,

the first sentence. An arcade game? They still make

far away (the long time ago bit seemed more

those? I knew that companies were still coming

difficult). It was, essentially, perfect timing.

up with inventive arcade devices, but this was the
first truly modern design I’d seen. The cabinet

For the uninitiated: Battle Pod is a recently

itself looked like a neat cross between modern

released arcade game developed by Bandai Namco

console design and classic ‘70s sci-fi goodness.

Entertainment that allows players to sit in front of a

BATTLE POD: AN UNUSUAL
STAR WARS EXPERIENCE

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huge screen that almost wraps around the player. It’s

By Ryan Davies

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chronological order!), watched a bunch of Clone

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Wars, played some terrible Star Wars games and was

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really, really tempted to spend money I don’t have

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on Star Wars: Imperial Assault: a damned amazing-

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looking boardgame that lets you control little plastic

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As you can imagine, I was pretty excited to jump

encased within a dome that features plenty of bells

into the machine at London’s Namco Funscape.

and whistles to replicate the feeling of movement and

Unfortunately, everyone at the press event I was

interactivity. As you can expect, Battle Pod drops the

attending had the same idea - and with only one

player into a selection of scenarios from the original

Pod between us all, I had to patiently wait my turn.

films; from speeding through Endor to fighter battles

When my time finally came, I sneaked into the dome

Stormtroopers. There’s even at AT-ST people!

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No, that’s not the translation of some analy
obessessed madman, but rather about 57% of my
internal thoughts ever since the second trailer
for Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuted a little
while back. I’ve always loved the quintessential scifi series, but that trailer awakened something of
my own. A weird, slightly unhealthy, obsession with
the stuff. I’ve re-watched all the films (in - gasp 26 //Star Wars Battlefront Special Edition

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