Star Fox (1993 video game)

"Star Wing" redirects here. For other uses, see Starwing (disambiguation).
Star Fox
An anthropomorphic fox stands in front of an outer space scene, where spaceships are seen approaching a planet.
North American box art
Developer(s)Nintendo EAD
Argonaut Software
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Katsuya Eguchi
Producer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto
Designer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto[3]
Programmer(s)Dylan Cuthbert
Giles Goddard
Krister Wombell
Artist(s)Takaya Imamura
Composer(s)Hajime Hirasawa
SeriesStar Fox
Platform(s)Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
  • JP: 21 February 1993
  • NA: 22 March 1993[1]
  • EU: 3 June 1993
  • UK: 5 June 1993[2]
Genre(s)Rail shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Star Fox, known as Starwing in PAL regions, is a 1993 rail shooter game inspired by Star Wars developed by Nintendo and Argonaut Software, and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The first entry in the Star Fox series, the story follows Fox McCloud and the rest of the Star Fox team defending their homeworld of Corneria against the invading forces of Andross.

Star Fox was the second 3D Nintendo game after X for the Game Boy in 1992, and the first Nintendo game to use polygonal graphics, achieved with the Super FX graphics chip included in the cartridge. The complex display of three-dimensional models with polygons was uncommon in console games.

Star Fox received critical acclaim and is often considered one of the greatest video games of all time. It sold more than 4 million copies and established the Star Fox series as a flagship Nintendo franchise. A sequel, Star Fox 2, was developed, but was withheld from release until 2017, as a title for the Super NES Classic Edition. The next-released game in the series, Star Fox 64, was a 1997 reboot for the Nintendo 64.

Nintendo re-released Star Fox worldwide for the first time in September 2017 as part of the Super NES Classic Edition.[4] In September 2019, Star Fox was made available on the Nintendo Switch for subscribers of the Nintendo Switch Online service.[5]

  1. ^ "From Mario With Love". The San Bernardino County Sun. March 19, 1993. p. 22. Archived from the original on November 23, 2023. Retrieved November 23, 2023. Mario, the mascot of Nintendo of America, shows off robot delivery machines loaded with the company's newest video game, Star Fox. One million games will be shipped Monday from Nintendo's North Bend, Wash., warehouse -- the largest shipment ever on a single day -- and will be in stores Tuesday.
  2. ^ "Out-fox your friends and win Starwing". Daily Mirror. June 5, 1993. p. 24. Archived from the original on November 23, 2023. Retrieved November 23, 2023. Nintendo's Starwing game, which was released on Saturday, has advance orders worth £7.5 million.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference NP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Super NES Classic Edition". Nintendo of America, Inc. 29 September 2017. Archived from the original on 28 September 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online". Nintendo UK. 6 September 2019. Archived from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2019.