How Star Fox Let Nintendo FIRE BACK At Sega

[@xerokitsune]

The Star Fox Competition also had another prize aside from the pins, shirts and the grand prize trip. Each location's top score player at the end of the weekend won a Star Fox Competition bomber jacket. I managed to win one at the local Toys R Us.

[@LeoMidori]

Star Fox does have some pretty sweet jackets, congratulations~

[@Harsgalt711]

Dude, that's rad!

[@xerokitsune]

@@LeoMidori Funny enough, the jacket looks nothing like the jacket Fox wears.

[@skylarthomas3033]

That’s pretty dope congrats dude

[@bobjoemac1]

Super Ninja boys was a super fun game my brother and I rented all the time as kids...but never got fsr because the passwords were about as long as this comment.

[@TheNinjaMouse]

From my memory, the first time I played StarFox was in the waiting room of my orthodontist's office. Which now that I think about it, having a SNES in a waiting room was a bit of a time capsule moment itself.

[@markkoetsier6475]

That's a kickass orthodontist.

[@unluckyfives]

When I was a kid my dentist's office had a playstation with Crash Bandicoot. Good times.

[@Superluigi881]

I remember when my hospital used to have an n64 in it. That was my introduction to Mario 64 and gaming as a whole.

[@maverickhuntermeta4954]

None of the dentist/orthodontist offices I went to didn't have any game consoles hooked up in a waiting room, but IIRC, there was one waiting room I was in that had a small indoor playground with a tall fish tank as a dual sided wall.

[@DwarfShooter89]

Totally felt the "and we played that one the most" on Mario's Time Machine. That was peak edutainment!

[@Jim_from_Centerville]

These videos have become a Friday tradition for me - keep up the great work!!

[@almightycinder]

No joke, the yellow robot from Cyborg Justice is in Wreck It Ralph. He's in Ralph's group therapy, Bad-Anon. Quite a deep cut.

[@Stanimus]

Happy Friday everyone!

[@jasonblalock4429]

Argonaut also had an existing relationship with Nintendo because they made "X" for Gameboy in 1992 - a 3D wireframe flight combat sim that's probably the most technically impressive GB game made. But it was only released in Japan. I've never understood why. Either way, that's undoubtedly why Nintendo trusted them to do StarFox. Edit: 12:17 JFC what did they do to poor Timothy Dalton? He looks like a ghoul with a sunburn and a bad toupee.

[@mikejiggs]

Dylan crushed it this week. Primo content, boys- Keep it coming.

[@MySnakeisSolidus]

Thank you for making me feel old every Friday

[@jayesun3420]

Me too

[@Aenima308]

Same Lmao

[@yuin3320]

Old is so subjective. Something can be old like a milk, rotten and gross -- or it can be old like some furniture that's still around maybe even has a style that stands out these days -- or it can be old like a castle, a towering masterwork refined in the many years of its formation and reformation, still standing strong through the passage of time. Basically, it is what you make of it!

[@TigerNightmare]

@@yuin3320 We're all milk and there is no escape from turning sour and clumpy. Over a billion people have died since I was considered fresh by any standards. We're all doomed!

[@MySnakeisSolidus]

The passage of time makes us weaker tho But hey, leave something for the future and make the most of it!

[@TheGamersState]

StarFox, or Starwing as I knew it as I'm in the UK, was literally the game that got me into video games and was the first video game I ever played. I remember walking down the stairs where my Mom and Step-Dad lived and happened to find my Step-Dad playing on this little thing called a "Super Nintendo" and I just sat and watched. Keep in mind I was a very recusive child and only had a small group of friends when at school so for me I didn't even know what a "Video Game" even was. Fast-Forward 30 years and....yep....countless hours of my life poured into sitting on my arse and pushing buttons....I have zero regrets.

[@blahlbinoa]

My brother took me to the Starfox competition that was held at our local Children's Palace. It was one of the reasons why I love Starfox so much! The hype was SO REAL, the atmosphere was so electric! I got to play it as well and my brother got a good ways in as well. We both got a pin, which might be lost from moving or it's in a shoebox.

[@CSLucasEpic]

I still remember when Star Fox came out. All the video game magazines were talking about it, hype was super high, everyone wanted to see this new game with this amazing new technology to make graphics more 3D than ever before. The future was here, and we could play it on a Super Nintendo.

[@rondroske3623]

I remember as well. there was even a little period of time where the Sega kids shut their mouths. it didn't last long, and never happened again, but starfox sufficiently scared them. maybe they were on the wrong side of the console war... things returned to normal, but that game definitely shook things.

[@fuzzywzhe]

@@rondroske3623 The reason people fought so much about the consoles, is because it was a significant investment for many, and people knew that if they purchased the wrong console, they just ate a few hundred dollars.

[@rondroske3623]

@@fuzzywzhe that was the inane thing about the wars though... both sides had good strong consoles and games. and everyone played both either because they owned both, or had a neighbor/friend/cousin who had the other one. The more sinister thing about the wars... neither side wanted to win. just be in the lead. or even just be involved. the competition marketed their products for them.

[@fuzzywzhe]

@@rondroske3623 The conflict was about which console survived and not everybody had both or knew somebody that did. I grew up in a small town, there was an incentive for people to get "all the same system" so that people could trade and borrow. The more conflicted wars were over computers. The worst one won - Microsoft PC. We're lucky Apple didn't win, if they won, a computer would be $5000 today. Amiga, Atari ST, and Acorn Archimedes were all superior to either of those two platforms. The worst won. Unix was also superior but it lives on in over-priced Mac hardware (sort-of, they really decapitated a lot of the capabilities), and Linux which either nerds use are are in embedded systems, like Android.

[@mundane_in_the_membrane]

Star Fox is my first video game memory. In fact, it may be my first memory I can still remember! Now to be fair, I was around three years old and too young to play it. My mom put the end of the cable underneath the Super Nintendo while my older brother actually played it just so I could think I was playing the game.

[@jayesun3420]

I remember my first game...

[@jayesun3420]

That's awesome

[@greenkoopa]

My earliest is playing Mario 3...my first adrenaline rush ever was because of boomboom

[@mystbunnygaming1449]

Heh I did that with my cousins. I was an only child so I didn't have a lot of fun two-player games, so I would give them a controller and tell them we were both controlling the same character so that they wouldn't be suspicious of unresponsive controls. Though once I popped in Micky Mousecapade and to my shock, we actually WERE controlling the same character. I couldn't stop laughing while I tried to make jumps and Micky would suddenly veer off in the other direction and die.

[@KairuHakubi]

kek I remember little kids doin that

[@bes03c]

This series is great. It has the right mix of nostalgia, humor, and information about overlooked games.

[@stax6092]

Dylan's bit about the sumo fighter is hilarious. XD

[@codydhf3]

One of the secret levels in Star Fox had the player facing a slot machine as the boss with the only way to defeat it was to hit the 777 jackpot. Doing that will cause letters to pop up and the level won't end until you LITERALLY shoot out the letters to make up "the end". Oh did I mention that Fox McCloud actually dies/goes MIA in this alternate ending?

[@Groovebot3k]

Can you even actually *beat* that level? I was always under the impression you had to reset the game after you got there.

[@codydhf3]

​@@Groovebot3kyes you can. It's an end level so you'll have to start the game all over from the beginning after beating it.

[@BenCol]

All to the tune of When the Saints Go Marching In.

[@KevSlider]

I remember when StarFox came out and I was on an international trip as a 16 year old. I saw it in Amsterdam's airport videogame shop and learned of the name StarWinig . I got quick lesson in marketing.

[@zidarose]

Always loved how the lag was factored into the game design of Star Fox.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

The game was too demanding to run properly. The lag wasn't put in intentionally.

[@acrophis]

@Zach Twilightwindwaker He meant that the game was designed around the lag.

[@FleaMarketFalcon]

Can't believe it has been 30 years since this classic came out. I remember getting it for Easter and playing it all day. One of my greatest gaming experiences. American Gladiators will always be a masterpiece.

[@PBBoogie99]

Boooooo!😂

[@mjrleaguesweetie]

I went to my local Toys R Us and participated in the Star Fox Super Weekend. They gave me a little Star Fox logo enamel pin for my trouble. I put it on my Boy Scout uniform and my troop leader immediately noticed it and gave me shit.

[@The8bitbeard]

I remember trading a classmate my NES copy of "American Gladiators" for "Roger Clemens Baseball". I was never a baseball fan, but anything was better than "American Gladiators".

[@Nirakolov]

Cyborg Justice is one of my favourite Genesis games... it has soooo much cool stuff in it

[@chriswheatley3146]

Cyborg Justice was so much fun on the Genesis. The controls aren't too bad. The A button functions were about the only hard things to figure out without a little trial and error. I used to love ripping off limbs and other body parts; which just involved hitting back+A at the same time, preferably when the opponent is dizzy :)

[@MajorMokoto]

As someone who had it, I remember how much I loved it because it was so cool looking, but also how freaking hard it was to figure out. 10 yr old me would just die on those first pit jumps, lol. I played it again like 10 yrs ago and found just ripping off the arms of all the other robots to be the easiest way to beat it, lol.

[@chriswheatley3146]

@@MajorMokoto There was also that jump grab (waist latch) that would steal health if it landed on the enemy, or would hurt you if you missed. I believe it was down+c while in the air. I ended up using that a lot in the later levels. Sadly I never owned the game, but had rented it quite a few times.

[@MajorMokoto]

@@chriswheatley3146 Ah I do remember seeing that a few times and never knowing how it was done when it was done to me. The game kinda showed you all the moves via the enemy cyborgs but knowing how to do them was always a mystery to me.

[@chriswheatley3146]

@@MajorMokoto If I remember correctly, I had practiced trying to learn the different moves in the 2 player duel mode.

[@MrCalverino]

omg I had that game as a kid, I know all the moves, it's very deep for a side scrolling beat up I love the music!

[@drazel1]

Editor Dylan don't ever stop or change. Keep those comparison coming!!

[@thecunninlynguist]

Star fox was pretty amazing when I first played it. I was blown away my SNES was doing these graphics lol.

[@nugboy420]

It sucks cuz I’m old enough to have played it when it came out and prolly understand why it was so cool, but cuz I missed out on it? I just got starfox 64. Going back to this makes me sad.

[@griggs3d]

I remember playing in the competition. They had a booth at Walmart. I ended up getting a copy months later.

[@mcsteee]

I loved super ninja boy when it came out. It looked like fun so i rented it and it blew my mind when it turned out to be RPGish. Most of the battles are the awkward side scrolling affair, but the boss battles were turn based and therefore awesome (RPGs weren't easy to come by back in the day so you had to savor what you could get your hands on). You eventually get a gigantic flying mech as the games equivalent to an airship, which is great except it cant land anywhere near the final dungeon.

[@Jebbreh]

Super Ninja Bro love!

[@witecatj6007]

I remember playing Star Fox at Hills Department Store back then. Their electronics department had SNES and Genesis kiosks back then and thy always rotated the cartridges every big release. My 12 year old mind was blown when I started playing it. I never experienced anything like this on a console. The last time I was this wowed by a game like this was Afterburner in the arcades. I still have my copy of that game to this day and pop it in on occasion.

[@marscaleb]

Don't forget that Nintendo Power also had a special origami Arwing cut-out. They included this along with a statement that this would help people understand exactly what the game was doing to draw these fancy 3D graphics, by letting people craft a real-world 3D model to teach them exactly what was so different about Star Fox compared to other games.

[@stevesamora2986]

Look forward to these every Friday now. New favorite channel!?? Thank You guys!

[@garou119]

Love the Now in the 90s Fridays to no end!

[@Garrth415]

I remember renting Super Ninja Boy a few times as a kid and my brothers and I being completely unable to figure out how to make any real progress in it 😂

[@evillecaston]

The Super FX chip was such a brilliant move by Nintendo, because it didn't demand anything from the player. No add-ons or setup, it's just a cartridge. Personally, I think FX chip games are more graphically impressive than what the Sega CD and 32x could do (excluding Doom, of course). That could just be due to the compression, though...

[@Lore_XiV69]

I live in Brazil, and in 1994, every game rental store, had tons of Star Fox copies to be rented, and all of them were already rented out, and had lines for rental reserves 👍

[@andrebossert8567]

Cyborg Justice needs way more love. It was an epic beatem up where you could steal the enemies weapons and parts. It also was decently long and actually if you learned the mechanics hit detection etc was pretty decent. It was a really good game for what it was.

[@mstiefan6996]

I think I remember the Starfox comic in Nintendo Power more than I remember playing the game from my childhood. Recalling they created a female fox character named Fara Phoenix to be fox's love interest in the comic with her own special black Arwing and everything. Funny how in Starfox 2, there are two new female pilots and neither are that character. Apparently, one of them WAS going to be that character from the comic, Fara, but then was changed later on in development as there were some sprite images to prove it.

[@jdd881]

There was a Youth Center in the basement of our local Royal Canadian Legion that had an SNES. Among the games was Star Fox. But this was in '98/'99, so everyone wanted to play N64 games.

[@totemlordreviews7242]

Editor Dylan has zero chill this week and I am all for it 😂

[@LeoMidori]

Star Fox is such a great title, and shoutout to the composer, Hajime Hirasawa for really helping to shape the game atmosphere. Sadly this would be the last game he'd do music for.

[@foxymetroid]

If I remember correctly, he left because of a disagreement with Nintendo over the copyright ownership of the music.

[@retrojoe85]

This show increases in value episode after episode, like most valuable old school games for collectors! Plus, some moments really feel 90s as f**k! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@TigerNightmare]

Star Fox is one of those games that I couldn't forget if I wanted to. FOX: Ba dabba ba dah badat dab it! SLIPPY: Dip did it! Dip did it! PEPPY: Reekareek ooh reerit! FALCO: Boobooboo bau boo.

[@faselessnobuddy]

I can still recall the rainy Saturday afternoon I first rented Star Fox. I was in the grocery store with it in my raincoat pocket in it's plastic shell from the rental store. I couldn't wait to get home and pop it into my SNES!

[@MixMasterLar]

I first played Star Fox at my then-new neighbor's house. It was already a few years old at that point but I hadn't had the chance to play it yet since I didn't yet have a SNES. Turned us from acquaintances to friends

[@smallpoly10]

30 year anniversary of Star Fox. I wonder if that's why "A Fox in Space" part 2 just released a couple days ago

[@XenonOrion]

yayyyy!!! i just found out about that show last week. SOOO GOOOOOOOOD

[@patrickjohnson1649]

Star Fox: Just today bought at a Antique Store with Manual.

[@CrappyCar]

The early episodes of American Gladiator were the most fun. The Gladiators and the challengers were pretty evenly matched, and anything could happen. As the show went on, the Gladiators got so good at the games that it wasn't very fun to watch. Thanks for making me feel old!

[@Jebbreh]

I loved Super Ninja Bros. The cameos from the nes version and the series Flying Warriors was great. Using not only characters but some of the music. Sure the fights were not the norm, but it's a quirky game. The story, how wacky it gets is great. Lol.

[@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf]

I love the value of these games being explained in multiples of other games. I'll forever remember that Sumo Fighter is worth 2 Color A Dinosaurs.

[@OGNoNameNobody]

W-O-o-o-o-W! My loose copy of _StarFox_ is worth not hundreds, but *THOUSANDS* of pennies!! Thanks, Jared & Dylan. You just made my weekend.

[@trailersic]

2:48 I love it when my Atari ST is called POWERFUL!

[@mnemot]

i was high, Jared. i was high and couldn't get out of the menu -> tutorial -> back to menu loop for a very long time.

[@BradTheProducer]

To this day, I still wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night remembering how I bought the Starfox Competition Cart from Nintendo Power for, I think, fifty bucks, and then sold it on eBay years later for $200. One of my biggest regrets.

[@dreamcastknight]

The first time I played Star Fox was at a display in Target when it came out.

[@superbunnybun]

Once as a kid, I thought I had bought a copy of Starfox at a fleamarket, with the title covered in tape with the name drawn on. When I got home to play it, it turned out to be an Enix RPG called Robotrek. I didn't mind after I played it, as Robotrek became my favorite snes game ever

[@davidmortimer9764]

God, Dylan's cut in right at the end made me choke.

[@Thundaxx1]

I absolutely LOVED Cyborg Justice. I loved switching out weapons during gameplay by ripping it off the enemy and attaching it to yourself.

[@TheL1arL1ar]

Those torso rip fatalities and that long gap where you had to figure out how to double jump correctly.

[@crawdkenny]

Happy to see Great Greed coming soon. One of my favorite Game Boy games.

[@AmisAngelstreams]

*Nintendo looks at the success of Sonic* "the people have spoken and they want furries"

[@efaustus9]

StarFox came out a week before my younger brothers 10th birthday, he wasn't really a gamer but I talked him into asking for it as his one big gift and he got it. He ended up playing it only sparingly, I played it to death.

[@korrthemighty1]

I rented Super Ninja Boy at some mom, and pop rental place in Gorman, Texas. It wasn't too bad, and brought me joy for a weekend.

[@wcoleman99]

And that one song that played on American Gladiators was the Mortal Kombat techno song

[@voldlifilm]

I first played Starfox when I went with my mom to a town a few hours away. In a shopping mall i came upon a set-up with a screen and a SNES where you could play it. I was instantly hooked. I don't know if that was my first visit to that town, but it was the first one I'd remember. So for years afterwards (still today) that town is Starfox town to me. I even got my current gaming chair in that town. After that me and my friends started playing Starfox all the time, not the game mind you, but racing around on our bicycles pew-pewing Andross' forces. I was Fox, my best friend was Falco. No other game besides Zelda had such a huge impact on my childhood!

[@sonicmario64]

I wasn't actually able to play the original "Star Fox" until 2005, which was also around the time that I had played "Star Fox: Assault" for the Nintendo GameCube, and I'll admit it was the first game in the series that I actually played, to which I still love to this day.

[@notadocmartin]

The best thing about NES American Gladiators is the bizarrely realistic bloodcurdling scream that happens when you knock someone off a platform. Amazing.

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

I am so sorry, David Rita. I always neglect to credit you for these 90's videos. Entertaining job. You too, editor Dylan and Projared. Humor in top form today.

[@ThunderDragonRandy]

I once rented Super Ninja Boy as a kid, mistaking it for The Legend of the Mystical Ninja that I also once rented. It was something that went obscure in my memory for so long.

[@Pholadis]

i loved star fox growing up but i had no idea it was such a victory story for argonaut software. that's awesome

[@RoyaltyFreePlanet]

Amazing video. Visuals and music are amazing, top notch 90s nostalgia!

[@P2Mc28]

Even seeing the advertisements for these games brings waves of nostalgia. It's crazy how many of them I recognize. Video game magazines were basically The Internet back then.

[@xelaoherege]

Here just to say that Jared was using the same shirt as the first episode of the show. Nice shirt and awesome show btw

[@Dungeon00X]

Hey Jared and Dylon! I never played Star Fox before but I did play a lot of Star Fox 64! Stuttering Craig recently showed off that he has the Star Fox Competition cartridge in his collection on one of the new Side Scrollers podcasts. I have Star Fox Zero, but I haven't played it in quite some time.

[@kongkunin]

I remember having a blast with cyber Justice. I really liked ripping off other borgs arms and legs and putting them on mine.

[@doomspud6302]

I still fondly remember the first times I played any SNES games at a childhood friends house. Mario Kart, Mario Paint, Super Mario World, and my favorite: Star Fox. As a proud lifelong member of the PC Master Race, I wasn't nearly as blown away by Star Fox's graphics as most people were. But that didn't stop it from becoming one of my favorite childhood games, anyway.

[@PROJaiRU]

I will never forget watching the star fox intro over and over in a shopping mall... I did no had a SNES at the time yet.... I was just dreaming of having the new console...

[@Dragoonnight]

Listening to you talk about starfox just puts me in such a happy nostalgic mood!

[@AcedeKlown]

I played the first route of Star Fox so much, the placement of the Arwing to beat the first boss in seconds is still firmly lodged into my muscle memory. The Corneria music still slaps!

[@Magemaster55]

From this week games I only played a James Bond game on my SEGA MD II. Sadly can't recall now if I completed it.

[@mrmacross]

As a huge American Gladiator fan, thought it was funny you described "Assault" as a "gauntlet," since the Gauntlet would become a new event after the release of the SNES game.

[@matticus1980]

As someone who enjoyed Little Ninja Bros back in the NES days, I only just now learned there was a SNES sequel. Wow.

[@bobjoemac1]

Their are even more sequels, but they never left Japan. Pretty fun game but the passwords were insane.

[@Mekasoundwave]

I think this series has done a great job re-contextualizing how mind blowing Star Fox was at the time. Go back and look at any of the 3-D/Psuedo 3-D games that have been featured on NIT90s before this, Star Fox makes them look like ass.

[@JamesWilliams-nb6zc]

I've just found this channel and I've already binged a few videos. I was 5 in 1993 so i definitely remember alot ofnthese games and I was a die hard for bubsy bubsy bubsy bob cat

[@dnakatomiuk]

I found it a month ago and it's now gone which was a shame because the videos and editing was brilliant

[@icanhazgoodgame3845]

My mom took me to K-Mart to buy Super Mario Kart because it was on sale. I played my neighbors copy all the time but I wanted my own cart. While waiting for an electronics employee the Star Fox box art behind the glass catches my eye...I really wanted but it was new and twice the price($30 v. $60) so I knew we couldn't get it. The gray headed sales lady saw me eyeing it and sold my mom on the game because "the game is so realistic really feels like you are flying" As we were walking out game in hand I turn to my mom and Said "She was a really good salesman, huh?" Needless to say I was a happy and finally the cool kid on the block with the hot new release.

[@LanEXHikari]

Do a Barrel Roll! Kudos for pointing out all the secrecy behind Star Fox, which was the style at the time. The second console war era

[@thehorsefromhorsinabout]

cool to see a Timothy Dalton bond game.

[@CaptAwesumNo1Zone]

I remember first playing Star Fox at my childhood video rental store/chain "Family Video" when it first came out on a kiosk with a bunch of random kids, some older. All our minds were blown.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

Emma Blackery's favourite American Gladiator was Courgette.

[@johnsesia9050]

4:51 The very last day of the early 1990s. 6:35 January 1, 2000 to April 30, 2003. 6:48 There was also Star Fox Guard.

[@taipeijoey101]

We got a big one today

[@natebetts9426]

Loving this series. I remember getting my copy of Star Fox. We uses to rent it from the video store all the time, but managed to get one a couple years later.

[@madspunky]

The console war was over with Star Fox's release. The Genesis had Sonic 1/2, SoR1/2, better NHLPA/Madden, and Thunder Force 4, and a bunch of good but not great games. The Super Nintendo had Mario World, Final Fantasy 4, Castlevania 4, Zelda 3, Contra 3, Street Fighter 2, better Turtles, Super Mario Kart, Space Megaforce, Star Fox.

[@DodgeThisBam]

I never played StarFox but even I was aware of it. There were people gushing all over the 3D graphics but It didn't interest me all that much. Now when Lylat Wars (Star Ffox64) came out, THAT'S when I got into this series. What a game!

[@cheesetoast99]

I remember the Starfox mall competition! I won a t-shirt

[@TheCreepypro]

a pleasure to learn more about star fox

[@MrTylerWpg]

*Grabs a piece of paper, pencil, and calculator* You're not getting off THAT easy, Dylan!

[@navibc31]

That intro tunnel launch scene was spooky as a 7 year old at the time seeing it in Toys R Us. Though it did help me decide to get an SNES for my First Communion gift/replacement for my NES that broke that night

[@Coolmanbob7]

How have I never heard of Super Ninja Boy I've been watching your channel for a decade this game looks awesome

[@ThonyHedgehog]

Battle Grand Prix! That soundtrack was grooving and was worth the rent if only for that. My cousin and I used to keep driving in the sand until our tires got in the red, then try to survive the longest without being retired.

[@Hanokaze]

I love the original Star Fox, all 15 frames per second of it. The soundtrack in particular is stellar.

[@lordofchaosinc.261]

Sometimes when I'm on the highway Starfox music starts playing in my head especially when the space is tight. Also the first level theme.

[@jamesreed620]

I feel like an inflation adjustment would be nice when collector's corner comes up