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Star Wars: DroidWorks

Released by Lucas Learning in 1998, and I was really impressed by it. I remember it straining our computer a bit. In this game you actually built your character out of parts and its physical capabilities, even its verbs, were determined by which parts you added. Then you “drove” the droid you created through missions - often finding out your droid was unable to complete the mission, and you'd have to go build a different one to solve it. You'd also collect different parts allowing you to create more droids.

You could also paint the droids. I made a fast droid and named it “Sonic” and painted it accordingly.

I actually finished this game!