F-Zero
Nintendo - Nintendo
Super Nintendo
Release date: 1970-01-01
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F-Zero
Date undefinedIn 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.
F-Zero
Date undefinedFirst 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.....
F-Zero
Date undefinedF-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.
