The F-Zero Series Is Now 30 Years Old

It's amazing how fast time flies. See you all in a decade when the SNES miraculously becomes 40 years old.

Give us F-Zero 30 please. That would be sooooo dope playing the original online with others.

They need to just port GX already. It can’t get better than GX.

And the franchise has been dead for over half of that time. Shame

Where is my F-Zero 3D All Stars?

Time for an F-Zero Ultimate. Basically X upgraded and with the track editor added with a sharing option. Then add the better tracks from GX (the faithful F-Zero style tracks, not the gimmick tracks with obstacles that almost ruined the game), the AX tracks, most of original SNES tracks, plus the best from the GBA. All upgraded with 4 player split screen and online. It's not rocket science. Just do it!

Tough to call it's 30th anniversary on a series when that series dead ass stopped over 15 years ago.

@Pojos98 I never liked GX. Too many tracks had gimmicks like obstacles and humps that ruined the the flow of the race. X is the best, and with the DD track editor added (complete with online sharing), it's the best candidate for an upgrade. It's pure F-Zero. I'd also add the better tracks from GX, AX and the 16 bit era, complete with 4 player split screen, for the ultimate experience.

Poor, poor Captain Falcon and the rest of the F-Zero cast. Many people just think of him and a majority of Nintendo characters that aren't Mario, Zelda or Pokemon related as just a Smash Bros. character...

And there hasn’t been a new release in forever

The closest thing to f-zero we got now is the two courses they added to Mario kart 8 6 years ago. And then again in Mario kart 8 deluxe. You would think with the success of those games they would at least try to at least do a hd remaster with online of the GameCube one. Sadly nothing.

My ultimate dream is fzero x and the expansion kit for the DD. Level editor with online sharing...

F-Zero has been dead for 17 years though (unless you count those awful GBA games).

I played X and GX a few months ago back to back I realized that X is actually the better game contrary to popular opinion.

What is that purpose of this article?
Just to bring sadness?
I spent soooooo much time with GX, it was amazing

They need to just remake F-Zero X and add that track edition and online play. I could see why they won't be able to remastered F-Zero AX/GX as those two were done by Sega and Sega owned a lot of the trademarks in those games particularly some of the characters and musics.

I’d like a kid icarus uprising style game featuring the f zero drivers/pilots.

I'd even take a re-release of GX on Switch at this point...

I remember back in 1992 in Dixon’s in the shop window they had this playing on a massive tv. Ahh memories xxx

Id even take a demake of Fzero for the Game and Watch at this point ...

@siavm And the track Mount Wario is really like 1080 Snowboarding too. When will Nintendo stop sleeping on the majority of their franchises.

Just beat a grand prix last night on this, such great music and super fun to play. Hope 2021 sees a new entry with tighter controls

Let's celebrate with a new game, Nintendo...! Oh, well...

@HalBailman F Zero Ultimate is the best idea I've heard in a while, especially if it's based on F Zero X. Nintendo don't pay this franchise enough attention, presumably because it never made enough money. I still dig out X every now and then on my old N64 - what a fantastic game, still holds up today.

Its a shame that nintendo dont like to give us game that people actually ask for as opposed to stuff they think we want.
F zero, Waverace, 1080 snowboarding, Pilotwings,Metroid trilogy. Just 5 off the top of my head that that would be lapped up with atleast a remaster. Oh no, everyone must want another Mario game or a zelda title.....snore 😴😴😴

I've had enough of Mario's titles! Nintendo F Zero,Starfox,Metroid! Please

Aaaaand (unfortunately) Nintendo seems to not care at all about it any more.

@Kidfunkadelic83 they make what sells.

F-Zero 30?
Sounds like that should of been made into a Battle Royal Style game.

@Ashunera84 they dont know these games wont sell because they wont make them and give them a chance to sell. F zero would sell as would all of the other older IPs mentioned. Sure they wouldnt sell mario kart or animal crossing numbers but it they gave them the Mario 64 treatment ie an upscale and a tidy up which would be far cheaper and cost effective than a remake from the ground up i think they would surprise themselves and see there is still alot of love for these IPs. Hell, stick them on other consoles aswell. Better to have them on everything making money that laying dormant somewhere.

@Kidfunkadelic83 they certainly have an idea of what sells. One Animal Crossing game has outsold the entire Metroid franchise combined. That's even with the Prime trilogy on a highly successful platform.

Don't get me wrong, I consider F-Zero GX among the very best racing games ever made, and better than any Mario Kart. The appeal isn't that wide, though. That said, Nintendo has been slowly opening up to handing some IPs to partner developers, and F-Zero might be the best candidate for that.

@Ashunera84 i understand they know what sells and i know what they sell does sell well (say that fast 5 times) . I was just saying i think some of the game IPs that are just sitting in limbo would also sell (imo) . Fast racing sold well and that was a game id expect to cost more to produce than a sharpen up of GX. Dont mind me. Im just salty that im old and living in the past 😂😂

This is one dead franchise I really want to see make a comeback. They tease us with f-zero in smash, nintendoland, and Mario kart but from what I’ve read, Nintendo just doesn’t know where to go with the franchise anymore. I know Nintendo is all about innovation and not resting on its laurels but this has been dormant forever and would be a breath of fresh air, so would another thousand year door but that’s another story. F-Zero is not the cash cow Mario and Zelda is, but it’s sells would be substantial and would only help. I’ve liked them all, but I thought gx was the very best. Such great music, presentation, and I liked the tough as nails tracks to. There’s no greater sense of accomplishment than winning by a nose hair on some of those tracks(that story mode tho I could never make any progress on).Please Nintendo wake up and smell the smoked asphalt from this scorcher of a racer, we’re way over due for a new entry.

"Speeding away" is right, sadly; the closest we've come to a genuine F-Zero game since the excellent (but tough as nails) F-Zero GX on GameCube has been the two DLC stages for Mario Kart 8. And with Mario Kart due for another installment probably in 2021 (MK8 Deluxe's still-strong sales on Switch aside, the game will be SEVEN years old come next year), the odds of Nintendo releasing another multiplayer-enabled racing title...including F-Zero...are slim to none.

Seems like yesterday when I first bought the Super Famicom. Just amazing playing F zero, Pilotwings, Castlevania, final fight, timeless system, my favourite system ever.

Leaving the series out to graze like this is shameful.
F-Zero X is probably my all time favourite arcade racing game, it's close to perfection.
Even a remaster of X with online multiplayer added would blow people away, even today.

For what it's worth, Sega is hands down still the king of long-dead franchises that people would genuinely pay to see make a comeback, and it isn't even close. And I would honestly put the odds on Nintendo releasing another F-Zero far higher than Sega's next announcement (or the next five or ten after that) to be something other than Sonic or Genesis-related.

The character endings for F-Zero GX (if you were able to actually see them since the game was so insanely tough; I only did so because I used an Action Replay) were true hidden gems and included some of the most downright bizarre or hilarious cutscenes ever seen in a videogame. Captain Falcon arriving at a scene where a woman is standing there screaming as her baby's carriage straddles a track in front of an oncoming train (think the Austin Powers scene where the goon just stands in place screaming until he's finally run over) and ripping his pants down the middle as he rescues the child is certainly one. But the one that's indelibly burned into my eyeballs is the one where the alien symbionts go into a bathroom stall together. 'Nuff said.

Man I would love for this series to finally make a comeback. Please Nintendo, bring it back! Outsource it again if you have to but bring the series back! It's been dormant for far far too long.

And no you don't need to innovate with it, not everything needs innovation. Sometimes series just need a new game, released on a more successful platform at a more convenient time.

One of the best racing franchises in Nintendo's library and still no love in recent times....

30 years.. 3 console games. That is a true crime nintendo and we are the ones suffering from time and punishment

Free for the next 24 hours, grab it while its hot people:

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Show of hands: Who else made the jump from Port Town's starting grid jumplate to the other side of the track?

"The most recent entry in the series was the 2004 Japan-only Game Boy Advance release, F-Zero Climax."
2004? Japan-only? wow- that's sad...

It's a shame only the 1990 original is the on the Switch, by this point in the Wii U's lifespan we had everything but GX (and the Japan exclusive Climax) but that just shows how much of an afterthought retro games on the Switch is.

The best way to bring back the franchise would probably be a HD remaster of F-Zero GX which features a F-Zero AX mode (arcade racer style of reaching checkpoints before the timer runs out) and online multiplayer regarding content not in the original game.

And not a word on a new one..
I want something new for the franchise an action packef falcon Punch lol, some super hero kinda game, speed and power of cap falcon.
And and extra option to do multiplayer races (original fzero racing)

@The-Chosen-one that’s a good idea. I’d like to see maybe a story mode as captain falcon the bounty hunter where you have portions of racing down baddies in the blue falcon on tracks or to the next destination and then you have comic book stylized cutscenes. Falcons s brawler to so maybe it could be a scrolling beat em up with plenty of blazing falcon punching and kicking to be had. A two player option is a necessity with any beat em up maybe with another new protagonist and a couple of old favorites. Then of course the meat of the game being your exhibition, death race, track creator, online, and plethora of cup races. That could work.

@Pojos98 GX with online multiplayer (30 player races!) and a higher resolution would in fact be better than the original GX. Too easy an idea for Nintendo to do.

How about a new game instead of a port of something we already know and played. How long its been, 15 years?

@getyourak Yeah, it really does. I’ve been playing it on an HDMI converter recently and it just looks and plays amazingly still.

I wish Nintendo and core gamers would care about F-Zero... 😭😭😭😭

I still get sad whenever I think of the missed opportunity for an F-Zero X 3D for 3DS...

Advance Wars is another franchise that would seem to be absolutely tailor-made for the Switch. Throw in a multiplayer mode and map editor and it would keep folks engaged for hours on end.

I heard the Wipeout games on PlayStation have lost popularity so maybe futuristic racers don't appeal to enough people. I think Nintendo can afford to take a risk with another F-Zero though, Switch would be the right console when you consider how well Three Houses has done.

I don't blame Nintendo for dropping the series tbh. If I recall correctly, each game kept selling worse than the previous and even then, the series was never mega popular to begin with.

They should definitely rerelease the GameCube game though to gauge interest in the series.

Still remember getting F-zero X on import when it was first released (£70!!) - absolutely incredible, just the sense of speed. The track where you can go so fast you take off and impact on the surface of the moon

I'm not sure what they can do with it. A track editor would help, but the game itself still has to be good. And everything that can be done in a racing game has been done by now. Having said that, I would never have imagined Mario Kart Live in a million years, so maybe they will surprise us.

@wazlon I wasn't that taken on Wipeout Omega Collection - until I played it on the PSVR. It is such an intense game experience (once I had gotten over the motion nausea) and one of the best Vr games I've played.

I think in regards to F-Zero, Nintendo seems to be focused on Mario Kart the last few generations and don't want to publish a game that could potentially pull players away from that. I doubt we will see a new entry in the F-Zero franchise while MK keeps printing money.

I bet Nintendo doesn't give two flying ducks about this.

At this point I would be just happy with a remaster of F-Zero GX for the GameCube, getting an actual new game seems like an impossiblity at this point in time.

F-Zero will sadly be relagated to being one or two race tracks in Mario Kart and Captain Falcon in Smash

Just do F-Zero Battle Royale. Procedurally generated track which gets harder as time goes on. Last man standing wins. Easy

@Scottwood101
As a hobbyist game creator myself, I gotta say, everything about that sounds NOT easy. ^^

@Pod as a non hobbyist game creator, I'd say ANY game is NOT easy but when you see such technical marvels across all platforms I don't think an experienced team would not be able to make this work.

Or if it is then just make pre determined tracks that get extremely difficult- if there's more than one survivor by the end then who ever is 1st wins

@Scottwood101
I could imagine a randomized pool of track parts, where gradually, as players are siphoned out, the more challenging segments are swapped in more and more often.

Loved F-Zero on the N64 and would love to play a new entry on my Switch, I'd also like to see a new Starwing along the lines of the Lylat Wars. It's sad that Nintendo are happy to let these franchises fall by the wayside.

A 30th Anniversary compilation of all the F Zero games, on Switch, would actually be fantastic. Include F Zero X with the DD add-on version and F zero AX as well as GX. That would be a fans dream.
Of course a remaster of GX with 30 player online would be equally amazing .

I desperately want a port of F-Zero GX. That game made me viciously angry as a teenager, but I couldn't put it down. It was just so beautiful, ran so smoothly, had so many things to unlock and I loved that infuriating storymode.

Others have said X is the better game. I really don't like it, and would rather play the original or GX. I can get past the bland graphics (I love a lot of ugly N64 games) but I hate the soundtrack, and the vehicles just don't feel right to me.

Or it would be 30 years old, if it hadn't been dead for half of that time already...

@FargusPelagius "30 player online would be equally amazing"

Oh yes! That would be epic!

Wish we had a 30th anniversary collection for the Switch at least, see the popularity for a new version!

I still say they should just hand this series over to Shin'en-- They've proved their worth with F.A.S.T., and that series just stirs up memories of F-Zero anyway. But I rest my case. I'm over Nintendo's 2nd tier vault of games ever taking center stage again. I'm just glad I got to experience them in their prime and can still replay most of them when I get the itch.

@Kidfunkadelic83 In Nintendo's defense, lots of (morons) people keep buying those Mario/Zelda spinoffs in huge numbers. 1080, Waverace, F-Zero, Excite Bots have vocal fanbases, but there really aren't that many of us. Even Metroid was never huge by Nintendo standards. Boggles my mind, but it's true.

@judaspete i know your right buddy. I just dont want to believe it 😂

@Kidfunkadelic83 It's tough having better taste than everyone else

@judaspete its tough being old and living in the past 😂