"Even after the decision was made we went ahead and completed it, taking it to be fully QA'd through Mario Club." "The rivalry between Sony and Nintendo was very fresh and strong back then." It was so close to finished that Argonaut went and did it anyway. The rivalry between Sony and Nintendo was very fresh and strong back then because of the whole SNES CD-ROM affair (Opens in a new tab)."Ĭuthbert told Nintendo Life that the unfinished Star Fox 2 was "about 95 percent complete" when Nintendo dropped the hammer. The decision was made because they didn't want the old-gen 3D going up against the much better 3D of the next generation, side-by-side. "It was the summer of 1995 and the PlayStation and Saturn were suddenly doing very well in Japan," former Argonaut dev Dylan Cuthbert told Nintendo Life in a 2015 interview (Opens in a new tab). Check the tweet below.Unfortunately for Nintendo, Star Fox came along midway through the SNES console's life - which meant the sequel would face growing competition from other, emerging forces in the industry. So far as I can tell, though, the same 21 will be on the US version, which is based on the old, blockier stateside SNES design.
Note: the above is the list of games that will appear on the UK SNES Mini, as that's what's dropped into my inbox. I'm almost in tears.Ĭontra III: The Alien Wars, EarthBound, F-Zero, Final Fantasy III (as in the Japanese Final Fantasy VI, Espers and all that), Donkey Kong Country, Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Dream Course, Mega Man X, Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Super Mario Kart, Star Fox, Star Fox 2(!), Super Castlevania IV, Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Super Punch-Out!!, Super Metroid, Yoshi's Island, and Secret of Mana. Okay, deep breath, here's what you get with the SNES Mini and just look, look, at how many classics are on here. (Here's a thing, though: you'll have to complete the first level of Star Fox before gaining access to the sequel. The sequel to Star Fox that never came out.
Oh, yeah, and the games include some little thing called Star Fox 2. Yes, it's the Japanese and European model that this Mini is based on.
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