"You fly around, and you shoot things. You shoot a lot of things. Just shoot everything you can". Now THAT is the American spirit right there, Jon! Where should we post your green card to?
Just looked up the instructions and the meteor stage was an amusement park called Meteor Land but Andross turned it into a well stocked military depot base thats hurling towards Corneria with the Space Armada.
The rewind button is an excellent feature, saves having to restart a whole level of from a checkpoint to try something again. And it’s optional. Convenience is king
I'm blown away by the variety and sheer sophistication of this game, given it's origin. You fly in space and above planets, both high and low, each stage has a different backdrop and completely distinguished look, you have the wing-animals, all the different bosses. Just amazing.
"games were hard-" no, games were unfair. games were still suffering from the design philosophies of arcade machines. the reason games these days are "easier" is because they're designed to be finished, while arcade games are specifically designed to _stop_ you from completing them so you can waster more money.
No, games these days are asset tours where developers would never dream of actually challenging players with the possibility of failure because it might hurt their feelings. The closest games these days ever come to actually being even _possible_ to lose are roguelikes, and even those usually carry forward some form of progress when you "lose".
@@TheInker No, games were intentionally unfair back in the day on consoles. Anything with a lives system was emulating arcade machines and lives were tools to drain quarters out of your pockets. Also as a Dark Souls player, you can fuck right off. Those games make people quit them in frustration and that's how you lose at Dark Souls. That's the only way you lose. Plenty of games today have depth, great stories, fantastic gameplay, *and* will gladly kick your ass. AAA ones even, like DOOM(2016) + Eternal, the newer Wallenstein games. Also don't blame developers for shit publishers are to blame for. Three publishers in particular demand that devs make shit that's bland, too easy, market researched to hell, and is a asset show: EA, Activision-Blizzard, and Ubisoft. Your complaint sounds like that's all you play too. So hows about you stop being an elitist twit and broaden your horizons, huh?
this reminds me of 8 year old me. playing Star Fox Adventures. loved that game. but I only got to the scar-tooth camp. (the one with the rolling boulders down the hill.) before I was blocked by my skill. stopped playing. age 10 tried again. got blocked by the Tribal dinosaurs. in the little village cause of button mashing. stopped playing. age 12 got to the T-Rex in the temple maze. stopped cause I was really scared of it. (thanks Disney for the realistic dino park.) :P stopped playing again. Age 13 got to the last planet and battled on the Cloud-runner. once again stopped by button mashing. I couldn't mash and aim fast enough. (A and control stick on gamecube.) no excuse though.) Age 15 got through the whole game and was battling the final boss. I kept losing over and over again. now every age I mentioned here i would restart my whole game and get up to that point. at age 17 I just logged into the game. and beat the final boss in one try.... -__- So Age 20 I played through the whole game again from the beginning and had no trouble. ^_^ Funny how we mature as we get older. ^_^
I’m 6 months older than Jon, and also grew up as a SNES kid. Loved this game (but beat it often). Watching the joy he had from this was really heart warming 😂
I'm amazed how faithful a remake Starfox 64 is! I've only played the original a bit, but my muscle memory is being activated by every single level and boss. You really should have gotten the double laser upgrade by flying under the arches haha
Being older, Choplifter was the game I couldn't conquer as a kid. Gave it a try in college when visiting my parents and finished it on the first try. Felt damn good.
Anyone remember Stunt Race FX? I loved these titles, beat the crap out of Star Wing over and over, adored it. But... Lylat Wars did make some planets pretty epic.
@@bjbarlowe As much as I would love to buy a Switch for the likes of BoTW and several others, I still have a working SNES, boxed, in the back room. With at least 40 games, saved from my childhood. Not sure I have a TV that would work with it anymore, but still, its great to know that I have something that aged yet awesome, and it still works.
Do you remember the easter egg on stunt race FX's Night Cruise course where if you ran into Starfox billboards an Arwing would fly over and drop you a turbo boost?
I hate stunt race FX >_> I always would end up inside a confusing mesh of polygons. I could probably do a lot better if i tried again today... But I'm not going to XD
I remember when I first beat this after a long long weekend of playing as a child, so tough yet so satisfying, glad you managed to get your revenge on what at the time felt like a supremely punishing game for ace pilots only!
These kind of videos just show the age gap between Jon and myself, like jeez, I'd never even heard of this, and I was born in '99 so I've been around for a lot of the biggest moments in gaming But whereas Jon's childhood was.......this, mine was Age of Empires II (honestly, to this day, it's still my 3rd fave game, of all time)
Yeah, the lag kicks in right at the most difficult moments, conveniently enough. I originally figured it was just the game trying to be nice to you and give you like a burst of hyper-awareness when things got crazy.
You were not a scrub, that's for sure. The game is ridiculously hard. Completely unforgiving in every way. it just throws you straight into hell. 'Alright, here we are. We hate you. Have fun losing!"
Have you played the 3DS version? its fantastic. Except for the Vs. mode. Don't play that. the rest is fantastic. Also don't use gyro controls and 3D at the same time. I mean, you shouldn't use gyro controls at all because no matter how good they are they are still gyro controls... But if you do, don't use them with 3D. 3D looks alright though.
@@etherraichu If you learn to use gyro controls, it actually makes the game way too easy. You can snipe enemies off from obscene ranges because of how it lets you fine tune shots.
3 minutes in and I'm already pissed that he didn't fly through the arches. You get a weapons upgrade! No wonder you couldn't clear it as a kid, you're making it harder on yourself
Funny, back in '93 I was playing Sonic 1, so I think Space Harrier was my Starfox. I had the whole Sega Megazord (Genesis/SegaCD/32X). Though I had a SNES, I only remember playing Starfox on N64.
This is semi-off topic, but Jon's right about Meteor being an evil amusement park. From the manual: "This giant planetoid is actually an artificial asteroid that was created to be a great amusement facility called "Meteor Land". The evil Emperor Andross, however, turned it into his advance base, leaving it a mere shadow of its former self. This well stocked military depot is hurtling towards Corneria behind the Space Armada of Andross."
Is the fairground thing something lost in translation on the Europe side? I don't remember ever reading anything about that in the game in magazines like Nintendo Power over here across the pond.
This game was the bleeding edge of SNES technology, it was so demanding in fact they actually had to add extra hardware into the game cartridge to allow the SNES processor to handle 3D graphics (the super FX chip).
Reverse time is objectively good, as the game has not been balanced to depend on it, and it can thus be simply ignored by anyone who disapproves of it. Meanwhile, other people can have fun in their own way. Not everyone is equally HARDCORE TO THE MAX and some of us want to enjoy a game in a more relaxed sort of way. In this case, players who want their face stomped on can have that, and players who want to take it a little easier can simply enjoy themselves, Everyone wins, except possibly people who are incensed by the idea of other people playing a game differently than them. It's like balance-changing mods mods for Fallout or Skyrim. Developers should do this sort of thing whenever they can.
What I read was there was a German company called Starvox, apparently Nintendo changed the starfox title in europe to avoid annoying them since the names sounded similar when spoken in a German accent.
"Due to perceived issues with the German company StarVox,[1] Star Fox and Star Fox 64 were released in PAL region territories as Starwing and Lylat Wars respectively. However, as of Star Fox Adventures, Nintendo went back on this decision so future games could be released worldwide with the same name."
I remember playing games form the 80s with as strong 3D graphics. The SNES wasn't designed for polygons so it was a push for that system. Your PC's flight simulators had advanced the use of polygons already for that. The background was pretty nice art though.
Those old 3D games got like 8 FPS though, even on the best systems of the era. The SuperFX chip they put in the cartridge was specially designed for 3D rendering, so StarFox performs a lot better.
@@ManyATrueNerd I read that the game speed is tied to the frame rate, so increasing the frame rate would have required a lot of work. And Nintendo doesn't like doing a lot of work!
I hope you will get around to playing a full run of Lufia 2 Rise of the Sinistrals (imo one of the best snes rpgs out here, especially because of the eggs and ancient cave)
And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept...for there were no more worlds to conquer.
Good job on avenging your eight year old self so many years later!
Note to self:
NEVER upset Jon. It appears he knows how to hold a grudge.
ARRRGH!!! ALWAYS fly through the arches on the first level! that's how you get the dual blaster power up!
"You fly around, and you shoot things. You shoot a lot of things. Just shoot everything you can".
Now THAT is the American spirit right there, Jon!
Where should we post your green card to?
I already deemed him an honorary American during his Red Dead play through🤣
I remember seeing this on display at Kmart when I was 9 and being blown away by the graphics. Thanks for making me feel old Jon
I was 15 when this came out if it makes you feel better ;)
I was 10, and the commercials for this game absolutely floored me. The venom highway looked so good back then.
I'm really happy this channel exists. I'm getting older and I want gaming channels that don't cater to teens lol
Thanks, Jon and Claire!
This is why we love you, Jon. The joy in your voice was palpable when you beat the final boss. Eight year old Jon is smiling tonight.
Just looked up the instructions and the meteor stage was an amusement park called Meteor Land but Andross turned it into a well stocked military depot base thats hurling towards Corneria with the Space Armada.
The rewind button is an excellent feature, saves having to restart a whole level of from a checkpoint to try something again. And it’s optional. Convenience is king
I'm blown away by the variety and sheer sophistication of this game, given it's origin. You fly in space and above planets, both high and low, each stage has a different backdrop and completely distinguished look, you have the wing-animals, all the different bosses. Just amazing.
Oh what? OMG I didnt know I wanted this until right now. Well done Jon!
"The curse is lifted... Thank you for freeing me from Andros' cube prison."
8 year old Jon
That was the most intense gaming moment I’ve ever seen on this channel. When he won I wept tears of joy. Literally.
Nice job man. I know the feeling of having an old nemesis game from your childhood and finally conquering it. Gratz man.
"games were hard-" no, games were unfair. games were still suffering from the design philosophies of arcade machines.
the reason games these days are "easier" is because they're designed to be finished, while arcade games are specifically designed to _stop_ you from completing them so you can waster more money.
No, games these days are asset tours where developers would never dream of actually challenging players with the possibility of failure because it might hurt their feelings. The closest games these days ever come to actually being even _possible_ to lose are roguelikes, and even those usually carry forward some form of progress when you "lose".
@@TheInker No, games were intentionally unfair back in the day on consoles. Anything with a lives system was emulating arcade machines and lives were tools to drain quarters out of your pockets. Also as a Dark Souls player, you can fuck right off. Those games make people quit them in frustration and that's how you lose at Dark Souls. That's the only way you lose. Plenty of games today have depth, great stories, fantastic gameplay, *and* will gladly kick your ass. AAA ones even, like DOOM(2016) + Eternal, the newer Wallenstein games. Also don't blame developers for shit publishers are to blame for. Three publishers in particular demand that devs make shit that's bland, too easy, market researched to hell, and is a asset show: EA, Activision-Blizzard, and Ubisoft. Your complaint sounds like that's all you play too. So hows about you stop being an elitist twit and broaden your horizons, huh?
I'm guessing Jon never learned that double-tapping L or R to spin would deflect all energy weapons. Makes the game significantly easier to beat.
Grats on finally winning at Star Fox for the first time!
Star fox: You couldn't live with your failure, and where did that bring you? Back to me
this reminds me of 8 year old me. playing Star Fox Adventures. loved that game. but I only got to the scar-tooth camp. (the one with the rolling boulders down the hill.) before I was blocked by my skill. stopped playing.
age 10 tried again. got blocked by the Tribal dinosaurs. in the little village cause of button mashing. stopped playing.
age 12 got to the T-Rex in the temple maze. stopped cause I was really scared of it. (thanks Disney for the realistic dino park.) :P stopped playing again.
Age 13 got to the last planet and battled on the Cloud-runner. once again stopped by button mashing. I couldn't mash and aim fast enough. (A and control stick on gamecube.) no excuse though.)
Age 15 got through the whole game and was battling the final boss. I kept losing over and over again.
now every age I mentioned here i would restart my whole game and get up to that point.
at age 17 I just logged into the game. and beat the final boss in one try.... -__-
So Age 20 I played through the whole game again from the beginning and had no trouble. ^_^
Funny how we mature as we get older. ^_^
Diddle Dee diddle dee Dee.
I was 9 or so in 1993 and just got my Starfox tattoo last month.
I'm so proud of you Jon! Well done! :D
'Small child jon was incredibly incompetent'😂 ayy yeah, I was too😂
Ok I'm NOT meming here, I mean it, I literally mean it, do a barrel roll Jon, do a damn barrel roll to deal with the plasma balls lol.
8 year old Jon was a bit of a scrub... And that changed?
I did the same thing with Marble Madness. Beat it as an adult to avenge my childhood self and it is still so sweet to this day. Congrats Jon!!
I’m 6 months older than Jon, and also grew up as a SNES kid. Loved this game (but beat it often). Watching the joy he had from this was really heart warming 😂
Is this a no-bank challenge? You turn faster when you bank into the turn.
I'm amazed how faithful a remake Starfox 64 is! I've only played the original a bit, but my muscle memory is being activated by every single level and boss. You really should have gotten the double laser upgrade by flying under the arches haha
I like that the speed of stars is moving at such a speed as to indicate everyone is traveling at thousands of times the speed of light.
Being older, Choplifter was the game I couldn't conquer as a kid. Gave it a try in college when visiting my parents and finished it on the first try. Felt damn good.
Wow, this could turn into quite a series.
YAY! Now beat Starfox 2 for the snes released in 2017!
Starfox 2 is absurdly easy in comparison.
Nostalgia hit with Jon is the best hit!
Anyone remember Stunt Race FX?
I loved these titles, beat the crap out of Star Wing over and over, adored it. But... Lylat Wars did make some planets pretty epic.
LeiFlux07 Yes! I adored that game as a kid. I forgot all about it until I saw it on the Switch and had a nostalgia overload.
@@bjbarlowe As much as I would love to buy a Switch for the likes of BoTW and several others, I still have a working SNES, boxed, in the back room.
With at least 40 games, saved from my childhood.
Not sure I have a TV that would work with it anymore, but still, its great to know that I have something that aged yet awesome, and it still works.
The SNES Minis are pretty cheap second hand these days, and they work with modern TVs.
Do you remember the easter egg on stunt race FX's Night Cruise course where if you ran into Starfox billboards an Arwing would fly over and drop you a turbo boost?
I hate stunt race FX >_> I always would end up inside a confusing mesh of polygons. I could probably do a lot better if i tried again today... But I'm not going to XD
I remember when I first beat this after a long long weekend of playing as a child, so tough yet so satisfying, glad you managed to get your revenge on what at the time felt like a supremely punishing game for ace pilots only!
5 frames of pure fox per second!
This game would be fantastic in VR! Keep the style of graphics, clean it up like Rez Infinite and I'd be in heaven!
Starfox 64 was one of my favorite games growing up and up until today I had no idea that there was one before it.
Almost two. Starfox 2 was finally released for NSO, so you can give both a spin on the switch for pretty cheap.
Congratulations Jon! A victory well-earned, in true hardcore fashion even!
Aww yeah!
Totally play more SNES games!
These kind of videos just show the age gap between Jon and myself, like jeez, I'd never even heard of this, and I was born in '99 so I've been around for a lot of the biggest moments in gaming
But whereas Jon's childhood was.......this, mine was Age of Empires II (honestly, to this day, it's still my 3rd fave game, of all time)
Starfox 64 -> Lylat Wars
And a million Furries cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
What a delightful way to find out this is on the Switch! I know what I'm doing tonight. God this takes me back:)
If you take all the lag out the game it becomes ridiculous to play, search star fox overclocked
Yeah, the lag kicks in right at the most difficult moments, conveniently enough. I originally figured it was just the game trying to be nice to you and give you like a burst of hyper-awareness when things got crazy.
If modern day Jon still only has PER 1... then it's no wonder 8 year old Jon couldn't beat this game
You were not a scrub, that's for sure. The game is ridiculously hard. Completely unforgiving in every way. it just throws you straight into hell. 'Alright, here we are. We hate you. Have fun losing!"
The music for boss intro's always really freaked me out as a kid.
u avenged all of our childhoods, good job Jon!
Aw man... the memories. Star Fox was THE first game I ever beat.
I cannot wait for Starfox 64. It WAS my childhood.
Have you played the 3DS version? its fantastic. Except for the Vs. mode. Don't play that. the rest is fantastic. Also don't use gyro controls and 3D at the same time. I mean, you shouldn't use gyro controls at all because no matter how good they are they are still gyro controls... But if you do, don't use them with 3D.
3D looks alright though.
@@etherraichu I have one eye...so 3D is out.
@@etherraichu If you learn to use gyro controls, it actually makes the game way too easy. You can snipe enemies off from obscene ranges because of how it lets you fine tune shots.
Id like to be the first to ask for Metroid as the next classic lets play. The amounts of "flip" would be off the scales😂
That was touch-and-go at the end.....
3 minutes in and I'm already pissed that he didn't fly through the arches. You get a weapons upgrade! No wonder you couldn't clear it as a kid, you're making it harder on yourself
This was such a satisfying video.
Love the retro stuff
You can spin and deflect the fireballs. That would have saved you a lot.
I loved this game.
you fly thru the hoops/rings/arches etc for bonuses... and kill everything.
OMG, I'm older than you Jon! Now I feel really really really old!
Game revolutionary and iconic and gave us the cornaria theme 😀
I feel like I've been avenged as well.
Funny, back in '93 I was playing Sonic 1, so I think Space Harrier was my Starfox. I had the whole Sega Megazord (Genesis/SegaCD/32X). Though I had a SNES, I only remember playing Starfox on N64.
All wings check in.
Red 3 standing by.
Red 4 standing by.
Big red standing by.
Red October standing by.
Red Fox standing by.
Jon PLEASE play Yoshi's Island for us, it is probably the best super mario game ever made!
This is semi-off topic, but Jon's right about Meteor being an evil amusement park.
From the manual:
"This giant planetoid is actually an artificial asteroid that was created to be a great amusement facility called "Meteor Land". The evil Emperor Andross, however, turned it into his advance base, leaving it a mere shadow of its former self. This well stocked military depot is hurtling towards Corneria behind the Space Armada of Andross."
"Because, yeah."
"Just from, yeah."
"Actually, yeah."
"Especially, yeah."
Is the fairground thing something lost in translation on the Europe side? I don't remember ever reading anything about that in the game in magazines like Nintendo Power over here across the pond.
This game was the bleeding edge of SNES technology, it was so demanding in fact they actually had to add extra hardware into the game cartridge to allow the SNES processor to handle 3D graphics (the super FX chip).
The SuperFX chip was in anther title too, some monster truck game IIRC. The SuperFX 2 was slated to be used in Star Fox 2, but that got canceled.
Congratulations!
Reverse time is objectively good, as the game has not been balanced to depend on it, and it can thus be simply ignored by anyone who disapproves of it. Meanwhile, other people can have fun in their own way. Not everyone is equally HARDCORE TO THE MAX and some of us want to enjoy a game in a more relaxed sort of way. In this case, players who want their face stomped on can have that, and players who want to take it a little easier can simply enjoy themselves, Everyone wins, except possibly people who are incensed by the idea of other people playing a game differently than them. It's like balance-changing mods mods for Fallout or Skyrim. Developers should do this sort of thing whenever they can.
What I read was there was a German company called Starvox, apparently Nintendo changed the starfox title in europe to avoid annoying them since the names sounded similar when spoken in a German accent.
"Due to perceived issues with the German company StarVox,[1] Star Fox and Star Fox 64 were released in PAL region territories as Starwing and Lylat Wars respectively. However, as of Star Fox Adventures, Nintendo went back on this decision so future games could be released worldwide with the same name."
In the name of all 90s kids, thank you, Jon. You're our hero
UK may have had weird names for SNES games, but at least you didn't get the boxy purple SNES console.
0:32 or 'Lil-Let Wars' at it was mockingly known as in our neck of the woods.
So many memories
This is why doom was important, and quake was super important.
I remember playing games form the 80s with as strong 3D graphics. The SNES wasn't designed for polygons so it was a push for that system. Your PC's flight simulators had advanced the use of polygons already for that. The background was pretty nice art though.
Those old 3D games got like 8 FPS though, even on the best systems of the era. The SuperFX chip they put in the cartridge was specially designed for 3D rendering, so StarFox performs a lot better.
Good times. DO A BARREL ROLL. Never actually played this one though, Just Lilat Wars and the gamecube Starfox where your fighting dinosaurs.
Why does everyone forget Starfox Assault?
I first played starfox for the first time on the SNES mini, and my god, is it hard for someone not used to it
I played this game religiously as a kid.
rewind feature looks neat tbh :P
Oh so that's where that super weird helper trophy from smash bros is from! I never got why the hell there is a face spewing squares in the game!
I wonder if this will still be running at 15fps
It's still 15fps
And that's when it's not busy.
@@ManyATrueNerd I read that the game speed is tied to the frame rate, so increasing the frame rate would have required a lot of work. And Nintendo doesn't like doing a lot of work!
@@InnocuousRemark A lot of emulators can compensate for it and... It makes the game really easy.
Seriously, Jon. Do a Barrel Roll! Why dodge enemy fire when you can let it bounce right off ya?
"Do an aileron roll!" You mean. O-O They got it wrong in the game. Game Theory addressed this way back when
Heh, yep. Maybe Peppy finds "aileron" a hard word to say.
Wait.....space helicopter.....why did that never strike me as ridiculous as a kid....
I loved this game
YOU HAVE FIVE BOMBS, JON! BOMB THE VENOM BOSS!
Now I need to avenge my childhood and beat Pitfall!
I hope you will get around to playing a full run of Lufia 2 Rise of the Sinistrals (imo one of the best snes rpgs out here, especially because of the eggs and ancient cave)
We believe in you Jon!!!
barrel rolls intensifying.
I loved this!
Good for you!!!
Congrats! You really turned on the anti-suck!
Can we get "bweueueueuh, bloody hell" as a ringtone?
Nostalgia trip
My head hurts and my eyes hurt
8 year old Kryptnyt got his ass kicked repeatedly by Soda Popinski on the NES, so I know what gaming revenge is all about
great video Jon, may I suggest one of the Mario games next?
Jon is still an 8 year old scrub....but we still love him.....sort of