Star Fox
Star Fox, released as Starwing in Europe, is a 1993 rail shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo, with assistance from Argonaut Software, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The first…
Star Fox is a shooter developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development, released 21 February 1993 on Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Star Fox is
Star Fox is a shooter game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and released in 1993. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
This game takes place in a binary solar system called the Lylat system, which is inhabited by humanlike animal races (e.g. foxes, frogs, dogs, birds, rabbits, apes, etc.). It contains the planets Corneria and Venom, representing good and evil, respectively. One can visit many other planets, asteroid belts, space stations, etc. while going through the course of the game. Which path the player chooses affects what places they will encounter. Andross, a scientist, has fled to Planet Venom after being banished from Planet Corneria, and has now declared war on Corneria and unleashed an enormous army to wreak havoc on the Lylat system. General Pepper, the commanding officer of Corneria's defense…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Star Fox series
Star Fox is the first of 26 entries we hold in the Star Fox series. The next entry was Star Fox Game Watch in 1993. Its critic score of 70 is 8 points below the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Star Fox holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1993 averaged 64, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Players rate it 76, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Star Fox yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Quick answers
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