Star Wars: Pit Droids (full title: Star Wars Pit Droids: Logic and Reasoning) is a 1999 puzzle game by Lucas Learning. The game develops skills such as hypothesis testing and geometry.PlotWatto has bought a series of new pit droids, and tasks the player with transporting them to the Pod Racing.
Contents.Plot has bought a series of new s, and tasks the player with transporting them to the Pod Racing arena by avoiding all the environmental obstacles.Gameplay The player manoeuvres the pit droids through a series of puzzles such as road blocks and junk heaps. Players can also create their own droids and trade them online with other gamers.Critical reception Matt Diamond of praised the puzzle, variable difficulty, graphics, and music. Brad Cook of complimented its detailed graphics, intricate gameplay, and jazzy soundtrack. 's Ray Ivey liked the aesthetic quality of the game manual.
Said the game was very playable for a TV-tie in and offered educational opportunities. Gave the game a rating of 7.5. Thought the game offered an interesting test of children's logical abilities. Thought it was a standout in the children's software genre, mentioning its animation, sound effects, and tutorial. Said the game was easy to play, but added that its overly simple concept reduced its replayability.Pit Droids won 's 1999 'Classic Game of the Year' award. The editors wrote, 'This game is not only mind-bogglingly fun for puzzle fans of all ages, it is also solid, well-designed, addictive, attractive, and arguably the year’s best use of the Star Wars Episode I license.' References.
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Contents CharacteristicsA pair of pit droids hard at work, demonstrating their immense strength.Pit droids stood at a relatively diminutive 1.19 meters tall and came in many different colors. Their most remarkable feature was their immense strength, able to carry objects many times their own size or weight. This enabled them to repair automata such as at a remarkable pace. Their skeletal design and long, thin limbs were dwarfed by their broad-flared, dome-shaped heads. In the center of their head was a large, round equipped with multi-spectrum scanners. The photoreceptor could detect microscopic damage in metals and other solids.The DUM-series worked best in large groups, and had built-in comm systems that allowed them to communicate with those in their unit.
The antenna on their disk shaped heads served to transmit directions to other droids, allowing a group of droids to collaborate on a project more efficiently and thereby expediting its completion. Their immense strength would make a malfunctioning (or unattended) unit extremely hazardous, possibly resulting in significant damage. The most hazardous of these was a damaged ON/OFF button, the risk of which caused many owners to keep on hand as a precautionary measure. If a unit was past the brink of repair they would need to be disposed of, almost always resulting in the disintegration of the unfortunate droid.Pit droids could compress themselves into a compact, box-shaped package. A tap on their photorecepter would signal them to return to their upright position, and vice-versa.
There were also specifically made to automatically decompress and release individual pit droids, one at a time. HistoryMass-produced by in factories on, the DUM-series droids were commonly used in garages across during the days of the. In production for several decades, the DUM-series garnered criticism in the press due to their reputation as poorly programmed.
Clumsy and hapless, the droids were cheaply made and often were recycled rather than repaired. Despite the criticism, the DUM-series droids were capable within their narrow range of abilities.While being much maligned in the press, the droids were popular in the Outer Rim, even during the. They had seen much use on in and at the working on, though a handful were also purchased by to make repairs to her ship, the. When visited Watto's Shop in, he accidentally activated a dormant pit droid, although he quickly turned it off when informed him to hit it in the nose.During the Boonta Eve Classic of 32 BBY while the racer had his pod in a pit-stop, a single DUM-series pit droid was sucked into the engine and thrown out the opposite end of the engine. The droid 'survived,' (even letting out a cheer of excitement) but Ody's engine did not, costing him the race.
Pit droids would also be used to scavenge any reusable rubble from podracers that had blown apart. This action could be quite hazardous, as the droids were likely to be destroyed by functional podracers that were still running the course; the low cost of an individual unit made the loss of a single droid worth the risk.In, the first year of the, several pit droids assisted on unloading much of the Magistrate's treasure in, the of. Another pit droid, was assigned to, after serving of the, which was formed to steal a during a. Behind the scenesTwo highly incompetent pit droids.In the game (Lucas Learning Games), the droids have various equipment: ladders, wrenches, cases, gas tanks, or nothing. They also have different colored heads and bodies.In, DUM-series pit droids are featured as playable characters, although they are incapable of doing anything useful. This is likely because the character was only added for novelty purposes.According to the DVD commentary in, a scene that showed a squabble between three pit droids was a homage to The Three Stooges.Appearances.