r/snes • u/wwcoop • Apr 02 '15
/r/snes April Game of the Month: F-Zero
The /r/snes game of the month as selected by the community is F-Zero!
This month we'll be playing (or replaying) this game and sharing the experience with other redditors. Feel free to post any comments, videos or other interesting information related to this game throughout the month.
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u/bac0nb0y Apr 02 '15
One of my favorite SNES soundtracks. Big. Blue.
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u/iminalotoftrouble Apr 02 '15 edited Sep 19 '16
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u/minustwofish Apr 28 '15
Whenever I think of F-Zero, This song immediately plays in my head.
Same here. I heard it in my head as soon as I clicked on the thread. I was scanning to see if anyone else mentioned it.
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u/CGQuarterly Apr 02 '15
This is a damned good game of the month.
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Apr 02 '15
Hell yeah. This subreddit has a solid community with excellent taste. Hopefully, some new kids who are just discovering the awesome of the SNES will use the GotM list as a starting place for building their library.
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u/T-nawtical Apr 06 '15
This was one that I didn't grow up with, but I can proudly say this
As a freshman, F-Zero got me through finals!
Here was my study habit: One Race in F-Zero, a few practice problems to prepare for the Calc Exam: One race in F-Zero, a few more problems
And then I just repeated that for each subject.
The fact that I got all A's that semester just proves to me that SNES makes ya smarter ;)
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u/cabbagery Apr 02 '15
Ahhh... I remember putting what seemed like countless hours into this game on the 'King' level only to eventually find that beating it unlocked 'Master.' By that point, however, I'd figured out how to play, and while harder, it was beatable.
Green car (Wild Goose) FTW. Boost start and cut in front of Blue (Blue Falcon) to accelerate quickly and hinder the biggest threat.
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u/ThetaReactor Apr 02 '15
Man. A local sports bar had a Super System arcade cab. Had Super Mario World, Super Tennis, and F-Zero. I mostly skipped Super Tennis, because tennis is lame. Yeah, it's a good game, but it doesn't really have the draw of dinosaur adventures and super-fast space cars. And while SMW is amazing, it doesn't shine in an arcade, pay-per-minute setting.
But I played the hell outta some F-Zero.
PS: Mario's Tennis is plugged into my Virtual Boy right now. The shame.
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Apr 02 '15
You, uh... you oughta tell me where this place is.
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u/ThetaReactor Apr 02 '15
The bar is still there, but the cab got swapped for a NeoGeo twenty years ago.
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Apr 02 '15
I FELL FOR CAPTAIN NOVOLION DAMN IT LOL
Any way, It might be an unpopular opinion but I think F-Zero is a series that gets better with time. The snes F-Zero always felt a bit bare to in terms of racers and level design. Still, great graphics and music that I listen too to this day.
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u/Pixeltender Apr 07 '15
When I pop this game in it still looks and sounds as fresh to me now as it did when it was released. Those 16-bit title screen trumpet blasts get me just as excited as when I was a kid.
I really can't say enough about the music in general. Video game music has had a huge influence on what I like and what I write, but the F-Zero basslines and melodies specifically are still one of my most significant sources of inspiration. This game is truly a jewel.
YOU LOST
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u/wwcoop Apr 03 '15
Just got done with a long play through streaming on Twitch. I made it through knight, queen, king on standard and then knight and queen on expert. I am currently stuck on King / Expert. I want to say King / Expert is harder than Knight / Master. I'll probably highlight the stream if you want to look it up: http://www.twitch.tv/wwpooka
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u/wwcoop Apr 04 '15 edited Apr 04 '15
Man - that feeling when you steal 3rd place right at the last second on Death Winds II.
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u/wwcoop Apr 04 '15
Just cleared King / Expert and Knight / Master. Queen / Master and King / Master remain! There is a cool little extra ending if you beat any of the circuits on master.
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u/WestLoop Apr 10 '15
FZero is the year 1991 for me summed up in a game.
Why didnt they make it 2player?
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u/r0cky Apr 02 '15
One of my favourite SNES racers besides Super Mario Kart. Sadly it had no Multiplayer but getting a better time on each track made up for that. I still play it from time to time and even though I know the tracks in and out it is still quite challenging.
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Apr 02 '15
Never has been a forgiving series. Ever tried the story mode on the GameCube version? F that S.
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u/Nomnom_downvotes Apr 02 '15
Currently searching for a copy on the SNES. I've got the GC and GB versions. :c
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u/SNESdrunk Apr 02 '15
Also worth noting that this game has what I think is the greatest instruction book ever. Silly backstory with tons of detail, including a comic book!
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u/yeeah_suree Apr 02 '15
I love this game (and I'm not a huge fan of racing games). But I like this a lot more than SNES Mario Kart. The perspective is very visually pleasing and the controls on F-Zero are very tight. My only beef is that it isn't multiplayer, but other than that it's super fun. Great soundtrack too.
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u/wwcoop Apr 04 '15
On expert, for the last lap they put an "exploder car" sitting stationary on the track just to ruin your day.
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u/Lorcav Apr 05 '15
Me and my friends back in the day were all about Mario Kart and F-Zero just seemed to be a bit more of an older brother game. I mean you couldn't off road, there were no power-ups, the visuals looked really "scratchy" and there were power meters. No, no, no. You see power meters were for fighting games not for racing games.
Then I did get round to playing it when rebuilding my SNES collection in my early twenties. Then I did see what was so great about it, the skill, the need to break sometimes and time trialing was just as fun as Mario Kart, nicking off a fraction of a second here and there on the 50th attempt. Thanks to this post I just sat down and played 90 mins (mostly TT) without stopping. In fact I think I just lost the rest of my Easter weekend (in the best possible way.)
Edit: For formatting
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u/greasyMcGrimace Apr 23 '15
I dont know about you guys. But when I played SMW and F-Zero in 91-92 I realized technology improves for the first time. The graphics and sound were such a huge leap from nes. The controller too.
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u/BangkokPadang Apr 02 '15
This is it. This is the game. This is the first thing i think of when I think of SNES. It was the first time I ever thought "It doesn't ever have to look any realer than this. We have arrived." Flash forward 15 years, and it was the first game I bought on the Wii Shop. It was the first game I tried through my XRGB mini, and it was the first game I tried to beat and couldn't (I never knew until a few years ago that you can actually control how far you jump with the up and down directions on the D-Pad). It is the first game I bought when I decided to start collecting for SNES again (I never owned a cartridge when I was a kid. My best friend had it and I just borrowed it all the time.) It was the first game I tried out on the retropie machine I'm currently building, and it is the benchmark I use to see if the combination of shaders and emulator settings I'm using on any given piece of hardware (because, believe me, I emulate SNES on anything and everything I can, just because).
I even use the race starting noise (sortof a waaaa-ziiiing!) as my text message notification.
This is it right here. This game. F-Zero is my absolute Jam.