Platforms: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Wii Virtual Console.
Genre: Racing
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Release: August 13, 1991
Want to blaze through futuristic Utopias exceeding 450 km/h (That’s 275 mph for the people who are too “patriotic” to use the metric system) against three other rivals in faux-3D MODE-7 euphoria? F-ZERO does just this.
F-ZERO is a game that you will not want to stop playing, It’s one of those games that finds it’s way into the innermost layer of your soul and takes over, effectively making you want to play it unendingly. It has perfect craft control, and you won’t feel cheated when you hit a wall or any other racer. You are able to choose from four characters: Captain Falcon (Blue Falcon), Doctor Stewart (Golden Fox), Samurai Goroh (Fire Stingray) and Pico (Wild Goose) who all have different attributes to their vehicles like cornering, acceleration, top speed or weight. The courses are very well mapped, with obstacles put in perfectly appropriate places. The difficulty is moderate, it isn’t hard, but it isn’t easy either.
The music is some of the best the SNES can produce, and every single track is a classic. The only thing I didn’t like was that Big Blue was synthesized with accordions.
MODE-7 is a graphics engine that scales an image to look like a 3-D floor. F-ZERO pulls this faux-3D off well, as the graphics were insane at the time.
Screenshots do not do the game justice.
Gameplay- Rating: 
Fast paced, extremely fun gameplay.
Story- No story rating. The only story is in the manual.
Graphics- Rating: 
Mode-7 makes everything truly look like a 3D environment even though the SNES couldn’t produce the real thing.
Sound- Rating:
Bugs- Rating: I haven’t found any bugs. The game is bullet-proof.
Overall Rating:
Verdict:
It’s a very solid game, a must buy for anyone interested in futuristic racing, Captain Falcon and neat MODE-7 effects.
-Kevin
P.S. FALCON PAWNCH.
