Playing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor makes me think back to X-Wing from LucasArts. It was a first-person flight simulator that let you allocate shields, control your thrust, and feel like you were in the cockpit of a fighter.
To play this game, I had to overcome a few obstacles - that made it more precious, of course. First, I didn’t own the game or a PC, we were Macintosh people. I would go to my friend Marshall’s house in Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania. He and his brother Ben (purveyor of fine candles) had a PC (I called them IBMs at the time). The game was far too big for their PC to run, so they had to go through an MS-DOS interface that looked like this:
They would remove any other software on their PC, put it onto floppies, and install X-Wing, basically turning the entire PC into an X-Wing machine. Then, I’d usually watch one of them play the game, or sometimes get a little time to noodle with it myself.