Title:
Star Fox スターフォックス
Series:
Star Fox
Series Order:
1
Genre:
Flight Simulator
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IGN Score:
9.5
Release Date:
1993-02-21
Date Added:
2018-07-03 12:23:46
Game Summary:
Star Fox, known as Starwing in PAL regions, is a 1993 rail shooter game developed by Nintendo and Argonaut Software, and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The first entry in the Star Fox series, the story follows Fox McCloud and the rest of the Star Fox team defending their homeworld of Corneria against the invading forces of Andross.
Star Fox was the second 3D Nintendo game after X for the Game Boy in 1992, and the first Nintendo game to use polygonal graphics, achieved with the Super FX graphics chip included in the cartridge. The complex display of three-dimensional models with polygons was uncommon in console games at the time.
Star Fox received critical acclaim and is often considered one of the greatest video games of all time. It sold more than 4 million copies and established the Star Fox series as a flagship Nintendo franchise. A sequel, Star Fox 2, was developed, but was not released until 2017 as part of the Super NES Classic Edition. The next-released game in the series, Star Fox 64, was a 1997 reboot for the Nintendo 64.
Star Fox was re-released worldwide as part of the Super NES Classic Edition in September 2017, and for the Nintendo Classics service in September 2019.
Description:
In the distant Lylat star system, imagine yourself at the controls of a futuristic, heavily armed, space fighter - Arwing. Lead the counter-attack on an invasion force of hundreds of alien tanks, fighter ships, laser gun emplacements and super battleships. Maneuver at warp speed through fog-enshrouded canyons, dense asteroid belts and waves of the enemy’s best defense. You must use skill and cunning to fight to the enemy’s home planet Venom and smash the Core Brain for victory!
Gameplay:
Star Fox is a rail shooter in a third-person and first-person 3D perspective. The player must navigate Fox’s spacecraft, an Arwing, through environments while various enemies (spaceships, robots, creatures, etc.) attack them. Along the way, various power-ups are placed in the stage to help the player. The player receives a score at the end of each level based on how many enemies have been destroyed and how well the player has defended their teammates. At the end of each level there is a boss that the player must defeat before progressing to the next level.
Control of the Arwing includes thrusters and retro-rockets that allow the player to temporarily speed up or slow down. These can be used to maneuver around enemy attacks and other obstacles. Damage is incurred incrementally via loss of shield energy before the destruction of the craft. The game also has a small degree of locational damage detection: if the ship’s wings clip against obstacles or the ground too much, they will break off, adversely affecting the craft’s handling and removing the ability to upgrade weapons.
At the beginning of the game, the player is given a choice of one of three routes to take through the Lylat system. Each of these routes corresponds with a certain level of difficulty and has its own series of unique levels, providing additional challenge and replay value on subsequent playthroughs. The three game paths all contain the planet Corneria (the first level) and Venom (the last level), but they each have different versions depending on the path taken.
In each level, the player is accompanied by three computer-controlled wingmen: Peppy Hare, Slippy Toad and Falco Lombardi. At certain pre-scripted points, one will fly into the player’s view, often either chasing an enemy or being chased and asking for assistance. Ignoring a wingman’s pleas will result in him taking damage, or even being shot down. They cannot be damaged by the player’s own lasers (although they will complain if hit). Regardless of their survival, wingmen are not present during boss battles, but rejoin the player before the next stage. A player may choose to help their wingmen when they ask for assistance, as doing so will allow them to engage some of the enemies not destroyed by the player, helping the player to succeed and additionally making it easier to achieve maximum score in a given level. Additional points are also granted at the end of each level depending on the health of each wingman. If a wingman gets shot down, he will not return for the rest of the game.
Plot:
This game takes place in a fictional planetary system called the Lylat system, which is inhabited by anthropomorphic animal species such as foxes, frogs, birds, rabbits, and apes. It contains the planets Corneria and Venom, representing good and evil, respectively. Andross, an evil scientist, has fled to the planet Venom after being banished from Corneria, and declared war on the latter, unleashing an enormous army to wreak havoc on the Lylat System. General Pepper, the commanding officer of Corneria’s defense force, dispatches a prototype high-performance fighter aircraft called the ”Arwing”. However, lacking in time to train pilots for the new aircraft, he summons the elite mercenary team Star Fox to defeat Andross. Fox McCloud, the leader of the team, is accompanied by his teammates, Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, and Slippy Toad.
Legacy:
Star Fox has become an established Nintendo franchise, with six more installments and numerous appearances by its characters in other media such as the Super Smash Bros. series and Starlink: Battle for Atlas. A direct sequel titled Star Fox 2 was developed for the Super NES but never released to market, although programmer Dylan Cuthbert reported that the game was completely finished. Although Star Fox 2 was cancelled, some of the ideas and gameplay were salvaged for 1997’s Star Fox 64 (released in Europe under the title Lylat Wars) for the Nintendo 64. Eventually, a handful of beta ROMs of Star Fox 2 at various stages of its development were leaked onto the internet, and a fan-made translation of Star Fox 2 from Japanese to English was released in the form of a patch that could be applied to one of the leaked ROMs. A finalized version of the game, obtained from a complete ROM located in Nintendo’s archives, was released on the Super NES Classic Edition in September 2017.
In 2002, Rare’s Star Fox Adventures was released for GameCube. It was the first Star Fox game with action-adventure elements. The player acts as Fox McCloud on the world of Sauria, also known as Dinosaur Planet. In 2005, Star Fox: Assault was released for the GameCube, this time developed by Namco and specifically the same core team that handled the Ace Combat series. It incorporates third-person shooter elements into the game with grounded combat. Star Fox Command, developed by Q-Games released for the Nintendo DS in 2006, is the first game in the series on a portable system and the first to feature online multiplayer. It uses many features from the unreleased Star Fox 2, chiefly the real-time map and mission layout. Star Fox Zero, co-developed by Nintendo and PlatinumGames, was released in 2016 and returns to the storyline of the original game and Star Fox 64, while incorporating new elements such as the scrapped Walker transformation from Star Fox 2 and a new Gyrowing vehicle.
During the game’s release, Nintendo teamed up with Kellogg’s and Nelsonic to develop and release a promotional Star Fox LCD game watch to those who bought a box of corn flakes and sent the order form to Kellogg’s to receive the Star Fox game watch for free. In the game watch, there are four levels and the object is to fly towards an attack carrier and destroy it while dodging plasma balls and falling structures. The game watch also includes a pair of earphones and a headphone jack due to the game watch missing a volume control. Nelsonic later released it in stores in a different watch appearance.
The conception and development of Super Mario 64 was inspired by Miyamoto’s experience working on Star Fox.
Star Fox was the second 3D Nintendo game after X for the Game Boy in 1992, and the first Nintendo game to use polygonal graphics, achieved with the Super FX graphics chip included in the cartridge. The complex display of three-dimensional models with polygons was uncommon in console games at the time.
Star Fox received critical acclaim and is often considered one of the greatest video games of all time. It sold more than 4 million copies and established the Star Fox series as a flagship Nintendo franchise. A sequel, Star Fox 2, was developed, but was not released until 2017 as part of the Super NES Classic Edition. The next-released game in the series, Star Fox 64, was a 1997 reboot for the Nintendo 64.
Star Fox was re-released worldwide as part of the Super NES Classic Edition in September 2017, and for the Nintendo Classics service in September 2019.
Description:
In the distant Lylat star system, imagine yourself at the controls of a futuristic, heavily armed, space fighter - Arwing. Lead the counter-attack on an invasion force of hundreds of alien tanks, fighter ships, laser gun emplacements and super battleships. Maneuver at warp speed through fog-enshrouded canyons, dense asteroid belts and waves of the enemy’s best defense. You must use skill and cunning to fight to the enemy’s home planet Venom and smash the Core Brain for victory!
Gameplay:
Star Fox is a rail shooter in a third-person and first-person 3D perspective. The player must navigate Fox’s spacecraft, an Arwing, through environments while various enemies (spaceships, robots, creatures, etc.) attack them. Along the way, various power-ups are placed in the stage to help the player. The player receives a score at the end of each level based on how many enemies have been destroyed and how well the player has defended their teammates. At the end of each level there is a boss that the player must defeat before progressing to the next level.
Control of the Arwing includes thrusters and retro-rockets that allow the player to temporarily speed up or slow down. These can be used to maneuver around enemy attacks and other obstacles. Damage is incurred incrementally via loss of shield energy before the destruction of the craft. The game also has a small degree of locational damage detection: if the ship’s wings clip against obstacles or the ground too much, they will break off, adversely affecting the craft’s handling and removing the ability to upgrade weapons.
At the beginning of the game, the player is given a choice of one of three routes to take through the Lylat system. Each of these routes corresponds with a certain level of difficulty and has its own series of unique levels, providing additional challenge and replay value on subsequent playthroughs. The three game paths all contain the planet Corneria (the first level) and Venom (the last level), but they each have different versions depending on the path taken.
In each level, the player is accompanied by three computer-controlled wingmen: Peppy Hare, Slippy Toad and Falco Lombardi. At certain pre-scripted points, one will fly into the player’s view, often either chasing an enemy or being chased and asking for assistance. Ignoring a wingman’s pleas will result in him taking damage, or even being shot down. They cannot be damaged by the player’s own lasers (although they will complain if hit). Regardless of their survival, wingmen are not present during boss battles, but rejoin the player before the next stage. A player may choose to help their wingmen when they ask for assistance, as doing so will allow them to engage some of the enemies not destroyed by the player, helping the player to succeed and additionally making it easier to achieve maximum score in a given level. Additional points are also granted at the end of each level depending on the health of each wingman. If a wingman gets shot down, he will not return for the rest of the game.
Plot:
This game takes place in a fictional planetary system called the Lylat system, which is inhabited by anthropomorphic animal species such as foxes, frogs, birds, rabbits, and apes. It contains the planets Corneria and Venom, representing good and evil, respectively. Andross, an evil scientist, has fled to the planet Venom after being banished from Corneria, and declared war on the latter, unleashing an enormous army to wreak havoc on the Lylat System. General Pepper, the commanding officer of Corneria’s defense force, dispatches a prototype high-performance fighter aircraft called the ”Arwing”. However, lacking in time to train pilots for the new aircraft, he summons the elite mercenary team Star Fox to defeat Andross. Fox McCloud, the leader of the team, is accompanied by his teammates, Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, and Slippy Toad.
Legacy:
Star Fox has become an established Nintendo franchise, with six more installments and numerous appearances by its characters in other media such as the Super Smash Bros. series and Starlink: Battle for Atlas. A direct sequel titled Star Fox 2 was developed for the Super NES but never released to market, although programmer Dylan Cuthbert reported that the game was completely finished. Although Star Fox 2 was cancelled, some of the ideas and gameplay were salvaged for 1997’s Star Fox 64 (released in Europe under the title Lylat Wars) for the Nintendo 64. Eventually, a handful of beta ROMs of Star Fox 2 at various stages of its development were leaked onto the internet, and a fan-made translation of Star Fox 2 from Japanese to English was released in the form of a patch that could be applied to one of the leaked ROMs. A finalized version of the game, obtained from a complete ROM located in Nintendo’s archives, was released on the Super NES Classic Edition in September 2017.
In 2002, Rare’s Star Fox Adventures was released for GameCube. It was the first Star Fox game with action-adventure elements. The player acts as Fox McCloud on the world of Sauria, also known as Dinosaur Planet. In 2005, Star Fox: Assault was released for the GameCube, this time developed by Namco and specifically the same core team that handled the Ace Combat series. It incorporates third-person shooter elements into the game with grounded combat. Star Fox Command, developed by Q-Games released for the Nintendo DS in 2006, is the first game in the series on a portable system and the first to feature online multiplayer. It uses many features from the unreleased Star Fox 2, chiefly the real-time map and mission layout. Star Fox Zero, co-developed by Nintendo and PlatinumGames, was released in 2016 and returns to the storyline of the original game and Star Fox 64, while incorporating new elements such as the scrapped Walker transformation from Star Fox 2 and a new Gyrowing vehicle.
During the game’s release, Nintendo teamed up with Kellogg’s and Nelsonic to develop and release a promotional Star Fox LCD game watch to those who bought a box of corn flakes and sent the order form to Kellogg’s to receive the Star Fox game watch for free. In the game watch, there are four levels and the object is to fly towards an attack carrier and destroy it while dodging plasma balls and falling structures. The game watch also includes a pair of earphones and a headphone jack due to the game watch missing a volume control. Nelsonic later released it in stores in a different watch appearance.
The conception and development of Super Mario 64 was inspired by Miyamoto’s experience working on Star Fox.
Platform:
Nintendo Super Famicom
Publisher:
Nintendo
Developers:
Nintendo EAD / Argonaut games
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Players:
1
Country of Purchase:
Japan
Graphics:
16-bit
Input Devices:
Controller Game Pad
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Media Type:
Cartridge
Game Modes:
Single Player
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Packaging:
Cardboard Box
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$12.00
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-04-06
Date Added:
2018-07-03 12:23:46
