When I was little and watched Star Wars, I never wanted to be a Jedi - I wanted to be an X-Wing pilot.
While procrastinating from writing my grad school application, I stumbled upon two Windows games that I used to love, where you can play as an X-Wing during the Battle of Yavin and the Battle of Endor. They're probably the closest to the actual movies of any games I've played - you have lots of wingmen, but both start getting very desperate towards the end. I just won the Battle of Yavin by the skin of my teeth.
You can download both from Moddb, they're tiny files. Really fun, check them out!
Battle of Endor -
http://www.moddb.com/games/starwars-battle-of-endorBattle of Yavin -
http://www.moddb.com/games/starwars-battle-of-yavin/downloads/starwars-battle-of-yavin-full-downloadPS: I actually wanted to be a Y-Wing pilot when I was little. They're the Hawker Hurricane to the X-Wing's Supermarine Spitfire, the forgotten workhorses of the fleet.
