Game Theory Episode 23: Star Fox

When is a barrel roll not a barrel roll? When it's in Star Fox.

Thursdays, we separate the fact from the fiction in some of your favorite video games. Learn off-the-wall info while we look in-depth at the designer's decisions for old, new, and forgotten gems. It's the Mythbusters of gaming!

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• Star Fox (video Game)
• Video Game
• Star Fox (series)
• Games
• barrel roll
• do a barrel roll
• Star Fox 64
• Star Fox 3DS
• MatPat
• MatPat13
• gaming
• Nintendo
• Nintendo 64
• N64
• Nintendo 3DS
• aileron roll
• immelmann
• Half cuban 8
• aerobatics
• Fox
• Peppy
• Slippy
• Falco

[MatthewPatrick13]

@Nephtrien Not trolling at all! I was wondering if anyone would call me out on that, actually. Well spotted! The only response I would have is that the loop is ALWAYS a perfect circle whether they're flying through a large planet like Venom, where gravity would be intense and the egg would be more pronounced, or a nebula like Sector Y, where there would be next to zero gravity and the perfect circle would make sense.

[necronomicon009]

@greedys0ul AVGN reviews old video games, this is game theory where Matt takes all video games and makes their content relative to real life. (so troll harder)

[WolfSaviorZX]

I'm not surprised a game where a fox and a rabbit are allies, don't have their flight maneuvers correctly named.

[Sifer2]

Can't let you screw that Starfox lol.

And yeah its possible the space furries use different terminology than we do for flight maneuvers. Though in reality yeah I don't think the developers did much research beyond watching Star Wars.

[DJilneige]

@greedys0ul False

[buddabudda]

Alternate universe with it's own terminology and they're flying starships. Entire episode is void!!!

... now do a barrel roll!

[Borinater3]

starfox didnt start this facade it was afterburner in 1990 they also called the aileron roll a barrel roll. look it up

[TornadoBlow]

If I'm not mistaken (or blind), don't all of the levels shown in this video take place in a planet's atmosphere? Forget what I said about the G-Diffusers before, but they do not cancel gravity; they weaken its effect, enough for aileron rolls and Immelmann turns. I got this off the most official source online I could find, which, sadly, is the Star Fox wiki.

[GreyWolfLeaderTW]

*Second Rant Comment:*

U-Turn: Looks like an actual U on its side from the side. U-turn is also easier to say than Immelmann. [Curse it, Spell Check doesn't even know his name!]

And the Arwing and Wolfen have special unique engine's called Gravity Diffusers, or G-Diffusers for short. Guess what their purpose is.. >_^. With engines that are able to cancel out the effects of gravity, the laws of potential energy are useless, as is the "tactical egg", advanced future science having overcome them.

[GreyWolfLeaderTW]

My friend MatthewPatrick13, you're thinking like a "realism" lovin' 20th century fighter-pilot.

Star Fox takes place in the FUTURE, with an all animal cast, IN SPACE!! Classic rules of aerial warfare need not apply.

But to be fair, yes, the Star Fox barrel roll is an aileron roll, and WHY DOES EVERY VG & MOVIE WRITER THINK THAT 'BOGEY' MEANS AN ENEMY AIRCRAFT?! Have none of them taken actual pilot lingo courses?! The term for an enemy is a 'BANDIT', a 'Bogey' is an unidentified aircraft!

[necronomicon009]

I never played Star Fox nor have I used the barrel roll meme so I'm safe.