Star Fox (1993 video game)

Star Fox, known as Starwing in the PAL regions, is a 3D rail shooter video game developed by Nintendo and Argonaut Software for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The first game 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 Nintendo's second 3D game after the release of X for the Game Boy in 1992. However, it was Nintendo's first game to use polygonal graphics. It accomplished this by being the first ever game to use the Super FX graphics acceleration coprocessor powered GSU-1. The complex display of three-dimensional models with polygons was still new and uncommon in console video games. The game received critical acclaim upon release, and is often considered to be one of the greatest video games of all time. The game has sold over 4 million copies, and established the Star Fox series as a flagship Nintendo franchise. The series was rebooted with Star Fox 64 on the Nintendo 64 in 1997, which itself was later remade as Star Fox 64 3D on the Nintendo 3DS in 2011, and later reimagined as Star Fox Zero on the Wii U in 2016.
Nintendo re-released Star Fox worldwide for the first time in September 2017 as part of the Super NES Classic Edition, along with its previously unreleased sequel Star Fox 2. In September 2019, Star Fox was made available on the Nintendo Switch exclusively for subscribers of the Nintendo Switch Online service.
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