F-Zero

A futuristic racing game released by Nintendo for the Super Famicom in 1990. Set in the 26th century, it uses the console's Mode 7 rotation and scaling to create a pseudo-3D racing view.

Nine people worked on the game in-house, including three programmers, using Mode 7 to rotate and scale a flat plane to simulate 3D environments without polygons.

Developer

Nintendo EAD

Publisher

Nintendo

Players pick one of four hovercars with distinct performance and race five-lap events across 15 tracks in the Knight, Queen and King leagues.

Platform

Super Famicom

CPU

Ricoh 5A22 (65C816-compatible) up to 3.58 MHz

Media

ROM cartridge

Bits (period term)

16-bit

Platform specifications are sourced on the console page.

Japan

21 Nov 1990[1]

Europe — Super NES

4 Jun 1992[2]

Director

Kazunobu Shimizu

Producer

Shigeru Miyamoto

Composer

Yumiko Kanki, Naoto Ishida

Credits are limited to what the sources state.

• GAME1989

  PC Engine

  Bonk's Adventure

  PC原人

  Release

  JP 1989.12.15

  Dev

  Red Company, Atlus, A.I

  Genre

  Platformer / Action

• GAME1989

  PC Engine CD-ROM² System

  Ys I & II

  イースI・II

  Release

  JP 1989.12.21

  Dev

  Alfa System

  Genre

  RPG / Action

• GAME1990

  Super Famicom

  Super Mario World

  スーパーマリオワールド

  Release

  JP 1990.11.21

  Dev

  Nintendo EAD

  Genre

  Platformer / Action

It was re-released on the Virtual Console for Wii, Wii U and New Nintendo 3DS, on the Super NES Classic Edition (2017), and on Nintendo's online classics service (2019).

Series: F-Zero

This page uses no box art or screenshots, because their rights cannot be individually verified. The background artwork is an abstract pattern generated from the title's data. Credits for the platform photograph are on the console page.