List of F-Zero media
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{{Timeline of release years
| subtitle = Main entries in bold
| compressempty =True
| range1 = 1990 -
| range1_color = #93a7b9 #d7e3ee
| 1990 = F-Zero
| 1996 = BS F-Zero Grand Prix
| 1997 = BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2
| 1998 = F-Zero X
| 2000 = F-Zero X Expansion Kit
| 2001 = Maximum Velocity
| 2003a = F-Zero GX
| 2003b = F-Zero AX
| 2003c = F-Zero GP Legend
| 2004 = F-Zero Climax
| 2023 = F-Zero 99}}
F-Zero is a futuristic racing video game franchise originally created by Nintendo EAD and has been continually published by Nintendo although the company has let outside development houses work on some installments. The series premiered in Japan on November 21, 1990, with {{nihongo foot|F-Zero,|エフゼロ|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} which later was released in the North American in August 1991 and in the PAL Region in 1992. An original installment appeared on every succeeding Nintendo video game console with the exception of the Game Boy Color from its debut until 2004. GP Legend marked the first time the franchise hit a gaming system twice in its lifetime in the United States. The 2004 release of Climax was the last video game in the franchise before its hiatus. Since then, multiple video games were re-released through Nintendo's digital distribution channels. The series currently includes eight released video games, a television series, and video game soundtracks released on audio CDs.
Gameplay consists of racing in futuristic hovercraft and using their speed-boosting abilities to navigate through the courses as quickly as possible in settings like the recurring Mute City, Big Blue and Port Town. The first game was labeled by critics as an influential video game that created the futuristic racing subgenre as well as inspired the creation of numerous racing games such as Daytona USA and the Wipeout series. The series casually centers around the F-Zero racer Captain Falcon and his talented racing and bounty hunting abilities as well as his encounters with the other F-Zero characters.
Video games
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{{Video game titles/item
|title = F-Zero
|article = F-Zero (video game)
|date = {{Vgrelease|JP|November 21, 1990|NA|August 1991|EU|1992}}
|refs = {{efn|name=NAReleaseDateNote}}
|release = 1990 – Super Nintendo Entertainment System
2006 – Wii (digital re-release)
2013 – Wii U (digital re-release)
2016 – New Nintendo 3DS (digital re-release)
|notes = * One of the launch titles for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
- Playable as a demo on the Nintendo Super System arcade unit.
- Re-released for download over multiple platforms; the Nintendo Power peripheral in Japan, and as one of the launch games for both the Wii and Wii U Virtual Consoles. It was also digitally distributed on the New Nintendo 3DS.
}}
{{Video game titles/item
|title = BS F-Zero Grand Prix
BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2
|article = F-Zero (video game)#Sequels
|date = {{Vgrelease|JP|1996–1997}}
|release = 1996 / 1997 – Super Famicom
|notes = * Cancelled future content{{efn|name=BSName}} that was later broadcast in several versions on the St.GIGA subscription service. This was accessible from the Super Famicom's Satellaview attachment.
}}
{{Video game titles/item
|article = F-Zero#Games
|title = Zero Racers
|canceled = 1996
|release = Virtual Boy
|notes =
}}
{{Video game titles/item
|title = F-Zero X
|article = F-Zero X
|date = {{Vgrelease|JP|July 14, 1998|NA|October 27, 1998|EU|November 6, 1998}}
|release = 1998 – Nintendo 64
2004 – iQue Player
2007 – Wii (digital re-release)
2016 – Wii U (digital re-release)
2022 – Nintendo_Switch (digital re-release)
|notes = * The North American release of F-Zero X suffered from a three-month delay due to Nintendo of America's former release policy of spacing the release of first-party games out evenly.
- 100th game released on the European Virtual Console.
- A sequel of F-Zero, which greatly expands upon the number of playable vehicles and was the first 3D F-Zero game.
}}
{{Video game titles/item
|article = F-Zero X Expansion Kit
|title = F-Zero X Expansion Kit
|date = {{Vgrelease|JP|April 21, 2000}}
|release = 2000 – 64DD
|notes = * The first add-on disk for the disk drive attachment of the Nintendo 64.
}}
{{Video game titles/item
|title = F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
|article = F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
|date = {{Vgrelease|JP|March 21, 2001|NA|June 11, 2001|EU|June 22, 2001}}
|release = 2001 – Game Boy Advance
2014 – Wii U (digital re-release)
|notes = *Known in Japan as {{nihongo foot|F-Zero.|エフゼロ|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}}
}}
{{Video game titles/item
|title = F-Zero AX
|article = F-Zero AX
|date = {{Vgrelease|JP|2003|NA|September 2003|EU|2003}}
|release = 2003 – Triforce
|notes = * Triforce counterpart of F-Zero GX for use in the Arcades.
}}
{{Video game titles/item
|title = F-Zero GX
|article = F-Zero GX
|date = {{Vgrelease|JP|July 25, 2003|NA|August 25, 2003|EU|October 31, 2003}}
|release = 2003 – GameCube
|notes = * Originally scheduled for May 2003 in Japan and June 2003 in North America, the title was delayed by two months.
- Sequel of F-Zero X, events take place one year after the aforementioned game.
}}
{{Video game titles/item
|title = F-Zero: GP Legend
|article = F-Zero: GP Legend (video game)
|date = {{Vgrelease|JP|November 28, 2003|EU|June 4, 2004|NA|September 20, 2004}}
|release = 2003 – Game Boy Advance
2015 – Wii U (digital re-release)
|notes = * Known in Japan as {{nihongo foot|F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu.|エフゼロ ファルコン伝説||lit. F-Zero: Legend of Falcon|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}}
- Set in the year 2201, the game is influenced by the anime featuring characters and concepts seen there.
}}
{{Video game titles/item
|title = F-Zero Climax
|article = F-Zero Climax
|date = {{Vgrelease|JP|October 21, 2004}}
|release = 2004 – Game Boy Advance
2015 – Wii U (digital re-release)
|notes = * Is influenced by the anime and features characters and similar scenarios previously seen there.
- Re-released on the Japanese Wii U Virtual Console on December 16, 2015.
}}
{{Video game titles/item
|title = F-Zero 99
|article = F-Zero 99
|date = {{Vgrelease|WW|September 14, 2023}}
|release = 2023 – Nintendo Switch
|notes = * A free download exclusively for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers.
- Reuses assets and gameplay from the 1990 game, and recontextualizes it as a 99-player online battle royale.
}}
}}
Other media
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| F-Zero: ...そしてスピードの神へ |
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| Anime television series |
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=Soundtracks=
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! colspan="2" width="40%"| Title ! colspan="1" width="25%"| Release date ! colspan="1" width="20%"| Length ! colspan="1" width="45%"| Label |
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| colspan="2" | F-Zero | colspan="1" | March 25, 1992 | colspan="1" | Tokuma Japan Communications |
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| colspan="2" | F-Zero X Original Soundtrack | colspan="1" | September 18, 1998 | colspan="1" | Pony Canyon |
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| colspan="2" | F-Zero X Guitar Arrange Edition | colspan="1" | January 27, 1999 | colspan="1" | Player's Planet and Media Factory |
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| colspan="2" | F-Zero Blue Falcon Ending Theme – Resolution | colspan="1" | December 3, 2003 | colspan="1" | NEC Interchannel |
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| colspan="2" | F-Zero Legend of Falcon Opening Theme: The Meaning of Truth | colspan="1" | December 3, 2003 | colspan="1" | NEC Interchannel |
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| colspan="2" | F-Zero GX/AX Original Soundtrack | colspan="1" | 2:25:15 | colspan="1" | Scitron Digital Content |
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References
;Notes
{{Notes
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{{efn
| name=NAReleaseDateNote
| According to Steven L. Kent's The Ultimate History of Video Games, the official Super Nintendo Entertainment System United States launch date was September 9. Newspaper and magazine articles from late 1991 report that the first shipments were in stores in some regions on August 23, while it arrived in other regions at a later date. Many modern online sources (circa 2005 and later) report August 13.
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{{efn
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| IGN refers to BS F-Zero Grand Prix as the planned sequel and BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 as a "special edition" or "semi-sequel" to the original game. Computer and Video Games mentions the planned sequel to F-Zero was split into these two games.
}}
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;Citations
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Kent (2001), p. 434. Kent states September 1 was planned but later rescheduled to September 9.
{{cite magazine |title=Super Nintendo It's Here!!! |magazine=Electronic Gaming Monthly |date=November 1991 |issue=28 |page=162 |publisher=Sendai Publishing Group |quote=The Long{{sic|hide=y}} awaited Super NES is finally available to the U.S. gaming public. The first few pieces of this fantastic unit hit the store shelves on August 23rd, 1991. Nintendo, however, released the first production run without any heavy fanfare or spectacular announcements.}}
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{{cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/driving/fzero/review.html|title=F-Zero GX review|first=Jeff|last=Gerstmann|author-link=Jeff Gerstmann|date=2003-08-25|website=GameSpot|access-date=2009-10-06|archive-date=2007-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070126142027/http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/driving/fzero/review.html|url-status=live}}
{{cite book|last=Sheff|first=David|title=Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children|edition=First|publisher=Random House|location=New York|isbn=978-0-679-40469-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/gameoverhowninte00shef/page/360 360–361]|year=1993|quote=Yamauchi and Imanishi jointly directed Operation Midnight Shipping, which commenced in the wee hours of November 20, 1990. [...] The hundred trucks, each loaded with three thousand Super Family Computers and boxes of the first two Super Famicom games, "Super Mario World" and "F-Zero" (a racing game), had dropped off their secret cargo by the end of the business day on the twentieth.}}
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{{cite magazine | year = 1996| title = Preview: Zero Racers| magazine = Nintendo Power | volume = 87| pages = 40–41 | publisher = Nintendo}}
{{cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/news/6172546.html |title=F-Zero X races onto Euro VC |access-date=2007-06-15 |last=Boyes |first=Emma |date=2007-06-15 |website=GameSpot |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525030316/http://www.gamespot.com/news/6172546.html |archive-date=2011-05-25 }}
{{cite web|url=http://www.1up.com/games/wii/f-zero-x/|title=F-Zero X (Wii)|access-date=2009-10-06|website=1UP.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523235445/http://www.1up.com/games/wii/f-zero-x/|archive-date=2011-05-23}}
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{{Cite AV media|date=2009-07-25|title=GT Anthology: F-Zero|url=http://www.gametrailers.com/video/f-zero-gt-anthology/53335|publisher=GameTrailers|location=California|access-date=2010-03-16|time=3:07|archive-date=2012-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420012558/http://www.gametrailers.com/video/f-zero-gt-anthology/53335|url-status=live}}
{{cite web| url=http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-nj-49-en-70-7wp.html| title=Soundtrack – F-Zero Blue Falcon Ending Theme – Resolution (AIM)| publisher=Play-Asia| access-date=2010-03-16| archive-date=2011-06-15| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615131811/http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-nj-49-en-70-7wp.html| url-status=live}}
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;Bibliography
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090615171511/http://guides.ign.com/guides/480123/page_12.html Summary History of F-Zero] at IGN. Last accessed on February 17, 2007.
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