Ha, I felt exactly the same. Call me a philistine, but I've always hated the vector graphics look of the Atari Star Wars game, regardless of how revolutionary it was back in the day. Battle Pod is very cool for a quick 20 minute thrill ride (even better now you're not paying £2 a time for each 3-4 minutes of gameplay). For the definitive Star Wars experience though, I'd highly recommend checking out Star Wars Battlefront 2. It had a shaky start, but it has so turned the corner now. Considering all the ho-hah over the loot crate controversy when it first came out, I can honestly say in the 2 years it's been out, I've never played a game that's given away so many free extra maps, characters, skins, new game modes and other bonus content.
Anyway, don't want to totally derail Isamu's Sega Rally thread with Talk of Star Wars, so here's me playing the original Sega Rally '95 tracks in PS2 Sega Rally 2006. The timer is ridiculously hard.