Today, we most certainly take the graphical capabilities of racing games for granted. That's something we can all admit to quite easily. However, when the prospect of this form of gameplay was thrown onto gamers of the 90s, it was quite a dazzling prospect. F-Zero was the first of many titles that would take advantage of Nintendo's new dazzling graphical functionality, Mode-7.
F-Zero has been a dormant franchise for a couple of decades now. In fact, if it weren’t for the obvious appearances that Captain Falcon has been making in Super Smash Bros. games, you could get the impression that Nintendo has forgotten all about the series.
Have a new F-Zero hit within the first 2 years of Switch 2 and watch it sell away.
Maybe Nintendo should learn to drop the prices on their games if they want more sales. I have seen games that are 4 years old on store shelves at full price.
I've had treasure tracker for the switch bookmarked since it was released waiting for the price to hit my sweet spot of 30 bucks...still waiting...
We haven't seen a lot of franchise's from Nintendo. Mario will always stay as the shit stain of Nintendo. Mario games are fun and Kirby but some times you get tired of seeing Mario everywhere literally everywhere. They are playing it safe.
F-Zero is one of Nintendo's most neglected franchises, but the high-speed racing title could stand out from Mario Kart and utilize modern graphics.
In the 16-bit era, game devs and composers could finally change the type of tones used in the music, simulating a wider array of instruments and creating a whole lot of great soundtracks in the process.
It wasn’t easy picking out the best of the best because there were so many great ones. Even middle-of-the-road soundtracks seemed to deserve a bump if the game was just that damn good, and so many from that era are that damn good!
Here's the Ghetto Gamer list of top 20 soundtracks from the 16-bit era.
The article image made me think for an instant that GX was on the eShop. Fool me once...
Anyway, nice review. No disagreements here.
I'm in UK and the extra speed we've now got in this version, unlike the old Pal cart is eye-blistering. I honestly don't remember the game being so fast, or that we European gamers were missing out that much, but man this game flies and add the fact that it's great (semi)portability on the gamepad and it's 30p? First ESSENTIAL virtual console purchase!