The Star Wars video game from your childhood will make a grand return in 2025
If you miss playing cooperatively as a pair of Jedis, this is your chance to relive it

- October 11, 2024
- Updated: July 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM

During the generation of the first PlayStation, making video games was much faster and cheaper. This is evident in the number of licensed video games that were seen, which today would be unthinkable. Even in the number of different games from the same license that could exist. That is the case with Star Wars, which saw an enormous number of video games during that generation. Among them, one stood out in particular on the console.
Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles, one of the great Star Wars games from the original PlayStation and Dreamcast, will return in 2025 courtesy of Aspyr. Promising that all characters will be unlocked from the start and that the cooperative mode will return from the original, the game will be just as you remember it. This means they have created new art for the main menu, better game balancing, and smoother jumps.
In the game, we experience the story of Episode I: The Phantom Menace from Star Wars, being able to choose from different characters, not limiting ourselves exclusively to the characters involved in the story. This, combined with the possibility of playing cooperatively, made it one of the great titles of its time. Now improved, with up to 13 new characters.
This new version of Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles will be released on January 23, 2025, for PC, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Nintendo Switch for $19.99. And if you already feel a pang of nostalgia reading this, honestly: you have few excuses not to dive right in.
Cultural journalist and writer with a special interest in audiovisuals and everything that can be played. I'm not here to talk about my books, but you can always ask me about them if you're curious.
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