Star Fox

Nintendo have had quite a few defining games in their career that have helped to shape their games and consoles to what they are today. Mario and Zelda both did it for their respective genres. The SNES, too, had some games that did that. Star Fox is one of them.

The initial trait that separates Star Fox from the various other SNES titles is that it is a game done in 3D. That's nothing impressive now, but the SNES was a console that dealt with 2D graphics. For the SNES, this was ground-breaking. Star Fox made use of a special Super FX chip to render 3D polygons.

By today's standards those polygons were crude and generally lacking in the detail we, as gamers, have come to expect. But as a SNES title it looks amazing. The various models for the Arwings, enemies and bosses have been rendered very well and the detail is solid and varied. They are all animated pretty well too.

Effects are done solidly enough, with laser fire shooting forth, expanding...