490: Retronauts Episode 490 Preview: Star Fox, Part One
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
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| 0:35.5 | Let's talk about these games now. Star Fox for the SNES. I'll be seeing the first game and it bothers me |
| 1:03.1 | so that Star Fox is two words when it's clearly either intercapped or one word, but officially |
| 1:09.6 | it is two words and I have to constantly check myself. But yes, Star Fox. They probably were scared |
| 1:15.1 | the parents would call it Star Fox. Like the F word. They'd say Star Fox. Star Fox. Okay, the |
| 1:23.2 | the game about an ox. Yeah, if you put it in two words together, yeah, Star Fox. The PR people |
| 1:29.8 | make you pause Star Fox. Anyway, Star Fox. It came out in February of 93 in Japan in March of 93 in |
| 1:38.0 | the USA. You can also play it via the Nintendo Switch online. You can play all of these games on |
| 1:42.2 | this podcast today via that platform. What a great deal that is. Family plan is pretty affordable. |
| 1:47.2 | It really is. So development is underway to transform Argonauts demos into the first truly 3D |
| 1:54.2 | game for the Super Nintendo. And they're working from a strong foundation. For this mode 7 bullshit. |
| 1:59.0 | No, it's real. It's real polygons. So the roots of Star Fox are found in two games. |
| 2:05.0 | Argonauts Star Glider series and Namco Starblade arcade game from 91. Now I never come across Star |
| 2:11.7 | Blade before my research, but pull up a long play of it. And wow, Nintendo owes Namco money. But |
| 2:17.2 | like you said, off the air Henry, they let Namco develop a Star Fox game. I think it's payment |
| 2:21.8 | for ripping up Star Blade. Oh, hey, we're sorry. Make make Star Blade. Yeah, make it make it make your own |
| 2:26.4 | Star Fox. I mean, there are a million schmups out in the 80s. And they were all ripping off |
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