Binding: Video Game EAN: 0045496830021 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Nintendo Manufacturer: Nintendo Platform: Super Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Sales Rank: 2217 Studio: Nintendo
Product Description: Experience the future of racing with F-ZERO. In the year 2560, racing has evolved into an intense sport reserved only for the most strong-willed and courageous drivers in the world. Racing in machines that travel at speeds of 500km or h and hover 12 inches off the ground, the F-Zero Grand Prix is the most prestigious race of them all. You can choose from four pilots Captain Falcon, Dr. Stuart, Pico the alien, or Samurai Goroh and hit the track for some high-speed racing action.
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Rating: - Mute City, Big Blue, Sand Ocean, and Silence too...
In my opinion the two greatest futuristic race games EVER are Wipeout for the Playstation, and THIS game.
When it comes to futuristic racers, good ones are few and far between. The trick is, unlike a realistic racer, a futuristic one has to be totally unlike anything in the real world, yet be possible to control without banging your head into the wall in frustration. F-zero manages to have a floaty control system that perfectly translates the hovercraft you control with the limited digital control system. The craft you can pilot are all different, but none of them are lousy or unbalanced. Instead they are each unique, having primarily strength, speed, acceleration ect, but never to the point where they become useless as a result. And because of this you may have a favorite craft which is a lot of fun to control, but when you feel like it you can switch craft and still win with a different style of racing.
The tracks are some of the most memorable in racing game history. There is simply no substitute for good track design, and game designers for racing games should be made to play this game just to observe how good track design can result in a compelling game experience. You have tracks with magnets that pull you into the wall, tracks with wind blowing you around, tracks with ice that makes you slip and slide, tracks with huge jumps that can save you huge amounts of time. You have to strategically use the boost function (one boost per lap after the first lap ends); you have to keep your shields from getting too low...
This game is quite literally the stuff of gaming legend. There have been sequels, but never has the greatness of the original been touched on again. The music is so good people still make remixes of it and you can hear it in the Super Smash Bros. stages based on F-zero. The graphics may be old, but they are beautiful, crisp, clean, and FAST. The level Silence when played with the pink hovercraft is one of the fastest tracks in any racing game I've ever seen (in terms of feeling of speed). If you've got a Super Nintendo you owe it to yourself to buy one and a copy of this game. About the only flaw I can see in F-zero... is that it was single-player only.
Rating: - Ahh, the memories....
First of all, I am not a gamer. Not at all. I am totally uninterested in PC video games of any kinds (except for one game called Descent that I loved for a few months back in 1995 or something and never played again because our computer eventually crapped out and I could never get the disc to load on a different computer), and even the majority of console games were never much of a draw for me.
But F-ZERO is one of the half a dozen or so games that I really love, and definitely my favorite for the Super Nintendo. I'll admit that I never got really good at it, most of the tracks where you race the computer I am terrible at, but sitting around with a few buddies having a few beers and getting a little racing done is a hell of an evening even for me, and I'm pushing 30.
Here's something interesting. I live in China now, and on my first trip here (Feb. 2007), I lugged over my original NES, which I got for Christmas in 1985, along with about 20 games. Most frivolous item ever brought on an international trip! Then I lived here for a year, went home to visit for Christmas 2007, and on my return about a week ago, I brought along my Super Nintendo with F-ZERO, Mario Kart, Mario World, and Super Mario All Stars. These Chinese people aren't going to know what hit them.....
Rating: - STILL COOL, STILL AWESOME 9 OUT OF 10.
F-Zero is probably one of the best racing games ever made aside from the classic Mario Kart. Racing against the other opponents is fun, racing by yourself is just as fun, the level designs are awesome, and the music is still great and goes well with its environments. The tracks are challenging, and the experience is very rewarding and fun. Simply, if you own a SNES go pick up a copy of this game.
Rating: - CLASSIC, FUN
One of the first game ever for the Super Nintendo. If you was born after 1985...than the you missed out on the NINTENDO/SUPER NINTENDO ERA. Believe me, After playing Atari's Pole Position and then Nintendo's RAD RACER....F-ZERO is a whole new way of racing. The colors, the music, the fun factor is GREAT, being in the early 90's...Kids cut school to Play F-ZERO. Classic game...collectors item!
Rating: - No longer quite as shiny
F-Zero was the original mode-7 racing game for the Super Nintendo. Scrolling background layers give the illusion of a 3D track, and you pilot one of four vehicles across multiple courses.
The game's lost quite a bit of shine, mostly because Super Mario Kart took everything Nintendo learned from this experience and improved on it, including adding a two-player mode. Pop this cartridge in and it's easy to see how this game was revolutionary back in the day, but now the backgrounds are bland and flat and the races seem rather slow. The trademark F-zero music is still intact, however.
A decent game for collection purposes, but the GBA versions feel superior, not to mention the 3D NIntendo 64 and Gamecube sequels.
- Mute City, Big Blue, Sand Ocean, and Silence too...
- No longer quite as shiny
