F-Zero Maximum Velocity is weird...

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Published on April 17, 2023 12:00:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg-P2cLUtOY

Game:

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (2001)

Duration: 8:56

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F-Zero Maximum Velocity always seemed like the odd one out in the F-Zero universe. Despite being the last one in the timeline, some things don't seem to add up and today I'm gonna talk about those things.


Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Connections to the timeline
2:34 - Machine performance
3:58 - Machine designs
4:41 - Lore and locations
5:55 - My theory
7:15 - A more realistic reason
8:10 - Outro


Credits:
Music (in order of appearance):

F-Zero GX - Step '70s (Cover) - KingMeteorStudios
   • F-Zero GX - Step '70s (Cover)  

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity - Tenth East Zone (YM2612/Sega Genesis Remix) - Speedcrimson
   • F-Zero: Maximum Velocity - Tenth East...  

F-Zero - Red Canyon but it's MV Crater Land - CosmicTailz
   • F-Zero - Red Canyon but it's MV Crate...  

Big Blue 8 Bit - F-Zero - Bulby
   • Big Blue 8 Bit Remix - F-Zero  

F-Zero GX - Pilot Profiles (Cover) - KingMeteorStudios
   • F-Zero GX - Pilot Profiles (Cover)  

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Videos (in order of appereance):

Backround Stock Footage - RoyaltyFreeVideosYT
https://www.pexels.com/video/a-sky-fu...

The hardest races in F-Zero - Link-Zero
   • The hardest races in F-Zero  

F-Zero Timelines - Link-Zero
   • The F-Zero Timelines  

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Screenshots & Websites (in order of appereance):

Nintendo Powe, Maximum Velocity pilots
https://oldgamemags.tumblr.com/post/1...

F-Zero for Gameboy Advance Very Fast Pilot Manual
https://archive.org/details/FZGBA-VER...

F-Zero X Manual (US)
https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/S...

Blood Falcon information
https://fzero-facts.fandom.com/wiki/B...

Billy artwork
https://fzero-facts.fandom.com/wiki/B...

Bio Rex artwork
https://fzero-facts.fandom.com/wiki/B...

Digi-Boy artwork
https://fzero-facts.fandom.com/wiki/D...

Dai Goroh artwork
https://fzero-facts.fandom.com/wiki/D...

Questions about jet engine colours
https://inf.news/en/military/72d644e2...
https://tipsmake.com/why-do-american-...
https://www.quora.com/Why-some-fighte...
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/qu...
  / anyone_know_why_the_afterburner_color_is_d...  

Fire colours
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored...

Falcon MK2 artwork
https://fzero-facts.fandom.com/wiki/F...

Fighting Comet artwork
https://fzero-facts.fandom.com/wiki/F...

Aircraft turbine
https://pixabay.com/photos/turbine-ai...

Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Hot Violet artwork
https://fzero-facts.fandom.com/wiki/H...

Every location in the F-Zero universe - Link-Zero
   • Every location in the F-Zero universe  

Crater Land Loop Circuit track - TeamFaustGames
https://www.spriters-resource.com/gam...

Mute City 1 track - Superjustinbros
https://www.spriters-resource.com/ful...

F-Zero Wikipedia articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero:...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero_GX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero:...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero_...

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Sprites in the Thumbnail by MajinPiccolo:
https://www.spriters-resource.com/gam...

Kent Akechi artwork - TeamFaustGames
https://www.spriters-resource.com/gam...

Captain Falcon artwork
https://fzero-facts.fandom.com/wiki/C...




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