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TIL Star Wars Episode I: Racer holds the Guinness record as the best-selling sci-fi racing game, having worldwide sales of 3.12 million and beating other series like Wipeout and F-Zero. The team had to develop their physics simulation in the game from only a few short clips of the film given to them

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