The Vanishing Of The Podraces...

I agree we shouldn't base it on a video game but I,as do queeq and many others, believe that the races were no more during the time of ANH.

Maybe Angry Anakin smashes the stadium into little bits. 😂

Well it would make perfect sense to me why the Empire would come stomping in and outlaw it. Its the biggest money maker on the planet. Shmi even said about everything revolved around betting on the pod races. So if the empire couldn't find a way to get a good and illegal profit from it, it would make them mad, so they would outlaw it.

Yes it does make sense. But there is also a problem here. There were no Imperials on Tatooine until Leia's starship past it. Didn't Vader say that they have to set up a garrison on Tatooine? So it doesn't really seem there was much Imperial influence on the Outer Rim until the Death Star plans ended up there.

maybe swoop races, invented by the Imps, took over and left the races out of buisiness

Or T-16 races. At least that'd be canon. Swoops are EU.

Or maybe the empire demanded taxes from the races.

More or less what Gundy said, but I cant edit my post. The edit thing is gone.

Poor finti. 😂