Star Fox (1993 video game)
| Star Fox | |
|---|---|
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 |
| Programmer(s) | Dylan Cuthbert Giles Goddard Krister Wombell |
| Artist(s) | Takaya Imamura |
| Composer(s) | Hajime Hirasawa |
| Series | Star Fox |
| Platform(s) | Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Rail shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Star Fox, known as Starwing in PAL regions, is a 1993 rail shooter game 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 at the time.
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 not released until 2017 as part of the Super NES Classic Edition. The next-released game in the series, Star Fox 64, was a 1997 reboot for the Nintendo 64.
Star Fox was re-released worldwide as part of the Super NES Classic Edition in September 2017, and for the Nintendo Classics service in September 2019.