WHERE NO FOX HAS GONE BEFORE - Star Fox (SNES): Part 6: FINALE
3Secrets and easter eggs? Awesome-- now we're going to find out what happened to Fox's dad!
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Star Fox (スターフォックス Sutā Fokkusu), released as Starwing in Europe, is a rail shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The first game in the Star Fox series, Star Fox was released in Japan on February 21, 1993, in North America on March 26, 1993, and in Europe on June 3, 1993.
It was the second three-dimensional Nintendo-developed game, behind 1992's X, also developed by Nintendo together with Argonaut Software. Star Fox was Nintendo's first game to use polygonal graphics. It accomplished this by being the first ever game to use the Super FX graphics acceleration coprocessor powered GSU-1. The complex display of three-dimensional models with polygons was still new and uncommon in console video games, and the game was much-hyped as a result.
The storyline involves Fox McCloud and the rest of the Star Fox team, who must defend their homeworld of Corneria against the attacking forces of Andross. This storyline has been re-imagined in three remakes: as Star Fox 64 on the Nintendo 64, Star Fox 64 3D on 3DS and Star Fox Zero on Wii U.
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 him. 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 his/her teammates. At the end of each level there is a boss that the player must defeat before progressing to the next level.
At the time of the game's release, the use of filled, three-dimensional polygons in a console game was fairly unusual beyond titles such as Freescape games on the 8-bit computers, and Genesis versions of Atari's arcade games such as Hard Drivin' and Steel Talons, or Faceball 2000 on the Super NES.
Star Fox was awarded Best Shooter of 1993 by Electronic Gaming Monthly. The game took the #115 spot on EGM's "The Greatest 200 Videogames of Their Time", and 82nd best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Games list. It also received a 34 out of 40 from Famitsu magazine, and a 4.125 out of 5 from Nintendo Power Magazine. Next Gen Magazine pointed out Star Fox as helping pioneer the use of 3-D video game graphics. The game has been used as an example of how, even with a fully polygon design, the game was still very similar to older games in that there was a set path to travel through each level.
Wikipedia contributors. Star Fox (video game). Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. May 13, 2016, 06:26 UTC. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star_Fox_(video_game)&oldid=720019454.