Jokes show 1910 video Game

Capcom

***Lead the joke show 1910 Team to Victory!**In the distant Lylat star system, imagine yourself at the controls of a futuristic, heavily armed, space fighter - Arwing.Lead the counter-attack on an invasion force of hundreds of alien tanks, fighter ships, laser gun emplacements and super battleships. Maneuver at warp speed through fog-enshrouded canyons, dense asteroid belts and waves of the enemy's best defense. You must use skill and cunning to bring the fight to the enemy's home planet Venom and smash the Core Brain for victory!The Super FX micro chip is on-board for fluid game control and special effects previously unavailable in home video games! The action explodes from all directions in realistic, real-time, three dimensions.*”
—Game's rear cover
***"Joke show 1910"*** (known in its PAL region physical release as ***"Starwing"***) is the original jokes show 1910 video game made for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the first game in the series and introduces Fox McCloud and the Star Fox team on a mission to save the Lylat System from the evil clutches of Andross. The game was originally intended to have a direct sequel, *"Star Fox 2"*, which would have introduced the now-familiar concepts of Walkers, All-Range Mode, and the rival Star Wolf team; however, it originally went unreleased due to the looming Nintendo 64, and it was decided that the next title would be more akin to a series reboot rather than a true sequel.

## Contents

* 1Gameplay
	+ 1.1Controls
	+ 1.2Items
* 2Development
* 3References in later games
* 4Comic adaptation
* 5Rerelease
* 6Names in other languages
* 7References

## **Gameplay**

The objective of the game is to go through one route (Level 1 for beginners, Level 2 for more skilled players and Level 3 for seasoned veterans of the game) that begins at Corneria and eventually reaches Venom, the planet where Andross has holed himself up. Along each route, there are six stages apiece, all different. This deviates the game from the normal space/flight sim mold in which the difficulty level is set by the options screen, as each route corresponds to a difficulty level. This increases the game's replay value significantly by offering the chance to see and experience new areas on the higher difficulty routes instead of merely experiencing the same stages with more enemies, lower health, less time, etc.

By controlling Fox McCloud within the Arwing space/air fighter, the vehicle will automatically start moving at the Mission Start, and will proceed down a fixed route, towards the opposing Enemy Force Commander at the end of the flight path. The Arwing can be flown up, down, left or right, but it cannot turn around and if it approaches the edge of the screen, an arrow will flash to prevent the ship from going off course. In order to evade obstacles, the booster and retro rockets can be used to avoid taking any damage, but if the boost/brake gauge is empty, no techniques will work and the ship will be vulnerable for a moment. In order to take out enemies and add them to the Score Check, the Arwing's laser blasters can be used to shoot down targets and Enemy Force Commanders, or Nova Bombs can be fired to destroy or heavily damage enemies within the radius. Barrel Rolling will deflect enemy firepower, but will not protect the ship from head on collisions.

Not counting the Black Hole or Out of This Dimension, there are three route orders in the game. All paths begin at Corneria, where the player faces either the Attack Carrier on the easier routes or the Destructor on the hardest route. In the easy path: The Star Fox team then heads to the Asteroid Belt where they destroy the Rock Crusher, attack the Andross Space Armada and destroy the flagship's Atomic Base, destroy the Dancing Insector of the Battle Base Meteor, and fight Phantron at Venom. In the medium route, they go to Sector X and destroy the Rock Crusher, recapture the weather control base and destroy the corrupted Professor Hanger at Titania, save the "undersea" lifeforms of Sector Y by eliminating the Plasma Hydra, tangle with the Metal Smasher at Venom airspace, and race the Galactic Rider at the base. On the hard route, they'll destroy the Blade Barrier of the Asteroid Belt, destroy Andross's mutated Monarch Dodora at Fortuna, take out the Atomic Base II at Sector Z, destroy the Spinning Core at Macbeth to stop the construction of a base, and defeat the Great Commander of Venom. All routes end with the final boss, "Andross..."

### ***Controls***

There are four control configurations to choose from, the default being Type A.

### Items

* **Supply ring**: After you fly through this ring, it will become your starting point if your ship is destroyed before you finish the stage. Flying through this ring will also restore most of your shield energy.
* **Small Energy Supply**: This small ring will appear after you have destroyed certain enemies or missiles. When you fly through it, some of your shield energy will be replenished.
* **Power Shield**:When you obtain this item, you will be impervious to the next several enemy attacks.
* **Twin Blaster**:This will upgrade the Arwing's Laser Blasters to Twin Blaster Type A. If Type A is already enabled, it will upgrade them to Type B.
* **Wing gyro**:If a wing is damaged, this will repair one broken wing.
* **Smart Bomb**: This will equip the Arwing with an extra Smart Bomb, up to a maximum of five.
* **Extra Ship**: The player must shoot the three objects to make an arwing appear in the middle. The player must then fly through the ship in order to gain a 1-Up.

## **Development**

The game was released in the spring of 1993 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and quickly became a phenomenon. Before it was even released, preorders exceeded 1.7 million copies. In order to keep up with the preorder demand Nintendo shipped a million game cartridges on the game's opening weekend, some dropped by parachute to stores such as Sears.

To promote the game, Nintendo created *Star Fox*-themed kiosks which loosely resembled an Arwing and sent them to Sears stores. A TV with a VCR stood next to the kiosk, and if one sat in a chair inside the kiosk then it would rumble in response to the actions on-screen. Another game promotion was the *Super Star Fox Weekend* competition, in which specially rigged *Star Fox* game cartridges set to time themselves for four minutes were played. The objective of the competition was to get the highest score by shooting down the most enemies within the time limit. Prizes included a free trip to one of four locations around the globe, along with flight pins, flights jackets and other assorted winnings.

## **References in later games**

* Legacy
* 1997
* Smash
* 2002
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2011
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017

While the start of the series, this game often became overlooked when its official successor, *Star Fox 64*, was released after the original cancellation of the virtually-finished *Star Fox 2*.

## **Comic adaptation**

*Main article: Star Fox (Nintendo Power comic)* In 1993, Nintendo Power released an eleven-issue comic book series, telling its own version of the *Star Fox* game.
## **Rerelease**

While the game was never re-released onto the Wii, Wii U, or New Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console, It eventually saw a re-release via the Super NES Classic Edition, alongside the formal release of the formerly-canceled *"Star Fox 2"*. The PAL version is listed under its unaltered title, *"Star Fox"*, due to titles utilizing their NTSC counterparts. The reason it and other Super FX chip games skipped Virtual Console was believed by Dylan Cuthbert to be due to fears of a lawsuit involving the copyrighted code from the now-defunct Argonaut Games. However, speaking to Famitsu regarding the Nintendo Classic Mini release, a Nintendo representative claimed that it was due to Virtual Console being unable to adequately emulate the Super FX chip, unacknowledging any behind-the-scenes legalities. It was later made available on the Nintendo Switch exclusively for subscribers of the Nintendo Switch Online service, along with 19 other SNES games.

## **References**

* Star Fox (In-Game)
* Star Fox 1993; Instruction Booklet
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star\_Fox\_(video\_game)
* http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/06/star\_fox\_2\_will\_finally\_be\_released\_thanks\_to\_super\_nes\_classic\_edition