Star Wars: Dark Forces – Cane and Rinse No.660

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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“This could be interesting.” Star Wars + DOOM = awesome success. A simple enough equation for mid-90s LucasArts, but is there more to Dark Forces than that? Leon, Chris Worthington, Darren and Tony blast and puzzle their way through this first-person shooter adventure, with missives from Cane and Rinse's community alliance along the way. From the MS-DOS original to the recent Nightdive remaster, we have all planet-destroying bases covered. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_660.mp3 Music featured in this issue: 1. Kyle Katarn's Theme by Clint Bajakian2. The Final Battle by Clint Bajakian edited by Jay TaylorYou can support Cane and Rinse and in return receive an often extended version of the podcast four weeks early, along with exclusive podcasts, if you subscribe to our Patreon for the minimum of $2 per month (+VAT). Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	The Hello everybody and welcome to the Kain and Rince podcast, Volume 14 issue 660.
0:42.2	And today we're going to talk about Star Wars Dark Forces.
0:46.5	Joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue, Chris Worthington,
0:49.7	Hello, Darren Gargett.
0:51.8	Yes.
0:53.2	And Tony Atkins.
0:54.6	Hello.
1:02.1	Star Wars Dark Forces is a single player first person shooter set in the Star Wars universe.
1:14.6	That sums it up pretty neatly, I'd say. It was developed by Lucas Arts. The video game arm of Lucasfilm, of course. Production began in September 1993 at a time when the first person genre was very popular, but still relatively new. The idea of creating a
1:20.4	first person shooter set in the Star Wars universe was inspired by fan mods of Doom, which had levels
1:26.3	set on the Death Star and that sort of thing.
1:30.9	LucasArts originally published it themselves with director Darren Stinnett taking the reins.
1:39.3	And it was released for MS DOS, of course, because it was March 1995 when it first came out.
1:48.9	I think Windows versions followed in 2009 and then Linux in 2015 and there's open source and various other things.
1:56.8	But it also arrived on Mac in 1995 and there was that PS1 PlayStation port in November 1996.
2:06.5	That version in 2015 was released on the PlayStation Network,
2:11.6	which meant that you could play it on a PS3 or a PSP, or even a Vita later on.
2:17.4	However, am I right in thinking that was US only?
2:20.7	Because I don't remember Dark Forces appearing on the PAL storefront.
2:26.3	No.
2:26.6	I've never seen it before.
2:28.2	No.
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