F-Zero X released on Virtual Console

Wii News | Another Nintendo 64 game.

It's another Friday, which means it's time for a Virtual Console update. Today Nintendo has updated the Virtual Console with the Nintendo 64 racer, F-Zero X.

F-Zero X is the third installment in the F-Zero series and originally came out in 1998. The game features a random track generator and a death race, where you have to try and eliminate all of the other racers on the track. The game is available now for 1000 points.

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16 Comments

Infested Jibbs

4 years ago

That's tight.Would have been nice if they included the jap one with the track editer/maker.Another swish for nintendo.

LeonJ

4 years ago

Yeah nice, but I want Megaman!!

pdaddy

4 years ago

Finally something other than an NES game! At least F-Zero is a step in the right direction with games. Brilliant speed, though the graphics are VERY dated and bare..

Can't wait for more SNES/N64 games.. or am I the only one tired of getting NES overload?

DancesInUnderwear

4 years ago

Nice. Not that I will be buying any more VC games in the immediate future, but still nice.

Is the small update due to Turbografx games appearing?

teashades

4 years ago

Did F-zero X really have a random track generator? I've still got the n64 version and I don't believe it does... Unless it is an unlockable thing I never knew about....

ret the roman

4 years ago

IMO F zero X wasn't that great of game.

realitybites

4 years ago

^^ yeah it sucked but hey its on VC so it must be good?!?

Infested Jibbs

4 years ago

If you guys thought f-zero x was crap you just....didn't......get........it.

It was rough around the edges, but that **** was f-a-s-t.Low poly, no texture crafts at 60fps(?), it was tighttttttt.No other game at that time delivered 4 player split screen at those speeds.**** all over GC fzero imo.

Flypaper

4 years ago

/Agrees with Jibbs.

My personal favourite thing about the N64 version was the psycho-computer-esque track announcer's voice. I was quite disappointed when I found they'd ditched him in the Gamecube F-Zero...

A13x

4 years ago

I preferred F-Zero X to GX, because they ditched my favourite game mode, the one where you need to sideswipe every car off the track. That was once my heaven.

Qbert

4 years ago

Good to see some 64 loving, but I'm not interested in this game, especially for the rediculos prices they charge.

Daniel Primed

4 years ago

Yay another great N64 game, I hope that people dig into this as it was a great game in its day. It sacrificed its graphics just to play well. Then again, why would you buy this when F-Zero GX runs at 60fps AND looks fantasic? Still a cool game in anycase.

Dare

4 years ago

I for one never got into the F-zero scene so this doesn't phase me in the slightest, but is nice to see some more 64 support

@DIU: why won't u be buying any VC games in the immediate future?

DancesInUnderwear

4 years ago

Dare wrote

@DIU: why won't u be buying any VC games in the immediate future?

Because I'm cheap.

I still haven't finished the two VC games I have (LttP and Mario Kart 64 - not that theres really anything to 'finish' in the latter), plus I have a bunch of other games I'm yet to finish.

realitybites

4 years ago

Jibbs wrote

If you guys thought f-zero x was crap you just....didn't......get........it.

It was rough around the edges, but that f*** was f-a-s-t.Low poly, no texture crafts at 60fps(?), it was tighttttttt.No other game at that time delivered 4 player split screen at those speeds.s*** all over GC fzero imo.

Entitled to your opinion but it IS IMO still a crap game. Nintendo do make crap games. Must come as surprise yeah?

?oe?oe

4 years ago

realitybites wrote

Nintendo do make crap games. Must come as surprise yeah?

Welcome to the first annual Nintendo Craps Tournament.

I love both the N64 and GCN versions of F-Zero equally. The 64 version had more... how do I say it... class? I don't know. The cube was a mean, fast, killing machine, but I was a master of it (you wimps complaining it was hard).