Star Fox SNES commercial (US)

A promotional cartridge, Star Fox: Super Weekend (Official Competition) (titled Star Wing: Super Weekend (Official Competition) in Europe), was released as part of the game's marketing campaign in Europe and the US. It featured time-limited single player mode on modified stages, as well as an exclusive bonus level. According to IGN, "The altered start-up screen displays 'Official Competition Cartridge'. Depending on the points scored, players could win a t-shirt, a jacket, or even trips to international destinations. An estimated 2000 cartridges were made."

In the United States, The Star Fox: Super Weekend Competition was played by tens of thousands of competitors in malls across the country. Stores such as KB Toys and Suncoast Video (usually any store that carried Super Nintendo games participated) hosted the event. In the United Kingdom, the competition was known as the Star Wing Challenge and was held in gaming shops across the country on May 29th 1993. Nintendo Netherlands also held the Starwing competition at various game selling stores in early 1993. The winner of each day won a large Starwing poster. Starwing competition was also used during the Dutch Nintendo Championship in October 1993-1996.

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[DarkLuigi4321]

I wish the ps3 had the super fx chip

[WolfenNights]

Dontcha miss when gaming made you feel this badass?

[SpartanForgeWorld300]

@WolfenNights we got metal gear solid

[MorreskiBear]

That fraction of a second when the helmet flips up and there's a fox inside... epic. Would vulpine helmets be shaped differently to accomodate a snout?

[godverdegodverdomme]

@crazdfoxxproductions I wouldn't say gaming has not seen anything graphically impressive, perhaps not as revolutionairy as the leap from 2D to 3D gaming, but still.. I have seen some very impressive stuff, however

you do need to spend a big buck on that, since it mostly encompasses DX11's capabilities.

[Xanatos21]

Loved this game ever since I was a kid! Every time I played, I'd pretend that I was Fox McCloud, saving the universe from Andross.

[crazdfoxxproductions]

@godverdegodverdomme well thanks, i personally have a 2,000 $ pc i built for gaming but i still find myself going back to my trusty SNES for all the real challenge. im actually really fed up with the current gaming market. seems like all they do is make more COD games. and its all the basically the same. i think theres something to be said with the older games since before long you wont even have a home console. it will be some tiny box and a controller that connects to some cloud...no thanks

[godverdegodverdomme]

@crazdfoxxproductions Comparing graphical prestation between games back then, and games today is

as futile as comparing a black and white movie with no sound, to todays most special effect- enhanced movie.

It's like comparing oranges and apples. Sure, they're both spherical.. But they had their own seperate roots

that although similar, are simply too different to expect an indistinguishable result.

[godverdegodverdomme]

@crazdfoxxproductions I love reading comments like yours, as a fairly long time gamer

and a serious hobbyist I can't help but to feel connected enough to these great pieces of, as you

said it; art, that it indirectly feels as a compliment to my personal tastes and appreciation.

It is relatively unique to see one of younger age like yourself, expressing such respect to the

golden oldies that have so well merged with the soul of so many people back in the day, including myself.

[MrTronbit]

@crazdfoxxproductions I thought cube quest was on the laserdisc as well. But whoa, I didn't know that about the game. lol

[crazdfoxxproductions]

@ContraCommando i second that comment