The History of Star Fox: 30th Anniversary Full Series Retrospective | Rewind Arcade

You mean... Nintendo actually used to SUPPORT people who tore into their consoles to understand how they work? And ENCOURAGED people to try and push the limits of their hardware?! AND HIRED PEOPLE WHO EXPANDED UPON THEIR STORIES AND GAMES AS WRITERS AND PROGRAMMERS?!?!

Star Fox definitely needs to make a comeback, especially this is the 30th anniversary.

I still remember the day I got Star Fox. It was late winter and it had just snowed in Virginia. I knew my mom would be taking me to the mall to get my new prescription for my glasses, and I really wanted Star Fox that had just come out. So I woke up early in the morning with my snow shovel and went around shoveling drive ways for $5 a piece. I managed to get ten sidewalks done so I didn't have enough...but the last driveway I did was my friend's house and his mom gave me the rest of the money I needed. I just remember after getting my new glasses, I ran down to the Electronics Boutique at the mall and go there just as they were getting ready to close (as it was a Sunday), and I handed over my money and got my game. It was actually the first game I had ever bought for myself with my own money. And I treasured it because of that. Star Fox 64 was a special game too. Back then we couldn't afford to get a lot of games, so I would often just rent them from the video store and play them over a weekend, often getting my fill. But sadly Star Fox 64 was one of those games that rarely ever available at Hollywood Video, Blockbuster, or the local family video shops. Eventually I gave up. But my mom was one of the most generous people I ever knew. I got back home from school one day, and she had gotten it for me. No special occasion or reason, just because. She's been gone for 20 years now, but I will never forget her kindness and generosity. I try to give as much as I can to the people in my life in her memory.

Just want to point out that in Star Fox Adventures, General Scales didn't work together with Andross' spirit/ghost but Andross was taking advantage of Scales' plan and Fox's involvement to revive himself from the dead. Scales were pretty much unaware of Andross until the very end when he attempted to assault Fox in The Krazoa Palace, after Fox have returned the Spell Stones to the Volcano and Ocean Force Point Temples and gotten nearly all the Krazoa Spirits back to the Krazoa Palace. He revealed himself just as the both of them were about to fight when he interviened, revealed himself (though not by name but Fox afterwards recognized the voice, only realizing it after Andross' rebirth when he was attacking him in Dinosaur Planet's orbit) to the General and forced him to give the last Krazoa spirit to Fox, in order to make his revival possible.

Star Fox instantly got my attention with it's 3D visuals and being a fan of Star Wars, military aircraft and fictional spacecraft. As I got older my favorite Nintendo series transitioned from Super Mario Bros to Star Fox and Metroid, their respective leads are now my favorite Nintendo characters. I was really looking forward to this video and I wasn't disappointed, great work!

39 days until Star Fox's 30th Birthday... It's been a long ride.

It's a miracle that Star Fox 2 came out, the person in charge of the SNES Classic production remembered that SF2 had a final build and asked for its inclusion, which was greenlit and so we got it

I was in the first contest for star fox when it launched in Canada. I can still remember walking into my local K-Mart for game day. For a kid it was a very important moment in my life. I didn't do very well as the contest was the first time I was able to play the game but I was impressed and fell in love at first flight. Well done with this amazing retrospective/ Watching this brings back great memories, thanks for this.

the intro music OMG. the video was playing in background in autorun and directly had to switch tabs to see it :D

My most fond and happy memories with this series was playing Star Fox Assault on the multi-player mode with some friends on Katina Outpost. Such a great game with an actual serviceable story, and definitely the best gameplay. Transition between on foot, vehicle and aerial combat was awesome and it even had on-rails sections. It's a damn shame we'll never get another decent installation in the series.

Star Fox Assault will always be my favorite in the series.

During the N64 era, I was more of a RAREWARE fan than a StarFox fan. So I really enjoyed StarFox Adventures despite the fact it was never originally a StarFox Game to begin with. Love Krystal especially in her StarFox Adventures design.

To this day, I still can't believe that Starfox 2 actually got an official release. I think it's one of the best retro gaming surprises in history.

Good sir! Excellent work as always. Thanks again for allowing to collaborate with you on this documentary. I'm super proud of the work we've done!

I wish Starfox Zero didn’t reboot the series yet again, this is my first time hearing the entire history of the series but it’s so cool knowing that there was continuity from Starfox 64-Starfox Command, I definitely want to give the entire series a try as I’ve only played and completed Starfox 64

Wow. I'm 20 minutes in and this is amazingly well made. I checked the time to see if I was close to the end and holy crap this is a monster of a video. I'm beyond impressed.

Now THAT is what I call a retrospective! In depth and non biased. Increasingly rare with so many youtubers taking up commenting on retro games.

This documentary is excellent. Thanks for going above and beyond in making this.

Just starting the SF64 portion, and I was genuinely shocked to see how little attention this video has gotten! This is great stuff, very well put together thus far. Please continue making content like this, and I will pray for your ever further success!

I'm only at the Star Fox 1 part and can already tell this will be great.