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a fox pilots a spaceship, barrel rolls past a wall of lasers, and thanks you unprompted.
means a nintendo shooter series where anthropomorphic animals fly ships through corridors of enemy fire in short, arcade-tight missions.
from born in 1993 at nintendo, built on the super fx chip, a custom polygon-crunching add-on stuffed into the cartridge just to fake 3d on the snes.
chip insidecartridge shipped with its own coprocessor, the super fx
catchphrase origindo a barrel roll is technically wrong, it means aileron roll
directorshigeru miyamoto produced, dylan cuthbert coded the engine
team namesstar fox, star wolf, both named for canines, obviously
for instance
star fox 64 — 1997 n64 game, peppy hare says do a barrel roll forever
star wolf — rival mercenary team led by wolf o donnell, recurring antagonist
arwing — the signature fighter ship, can transform into a land walker
corneria — the home planet, first mission in nearly every game