Guest Matt macdowel Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Starfox is a video game that was published by Ariolasoft on their Reaktor label in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC. The player assumes the role of Hawkins, a space fighter pilot charged with protecting the Hyturian star system from invading alien forces. The game uses wireframe and shaded vector graphics to depict combat, in a similar fashion to games such as Elite and Starstrike 2, which was also created by Realtime Games. Ariolosoft had previously published the Electronic Arts titles Skyfox and Arcticfox and the name was chosen to build on the success of those titles.Starfox 1 was made in 1993 by nintendo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asper Sarnoff Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Had it not been for me allready having heard of it, I'd say you were making it all up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that the reason why in Europe SF64 is called Lylat Wars, because there was a previous game with the title SF?Regardless, © Nintendo stays put. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Matt macdowel Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that the reason why in Europe SF64 is called Lylat Wars, because there was a previous game with the title SF?Regardless, © Nintendo stays put.i thought that was africa? in EU its called star wing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 i thought that was africa? in EU its called star wingAfrica? :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Matt macdowel Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Africa? :Syes in some parts of africa its called Lylat wars in EU its called star wing in America its called starfoxheres a quick pick of starfox the one nintendo didn't make Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987 Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Nintendo had to buy the name "Star Fox" from Atari so they could use the name globally without anymore problems, kinda like what Ivan Riteman had to do before he decided on "Ghostbusters". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Nintendo had to buy the name "Star Fox" from Atari so they could use the name globally without anymore problems, kinda like what Ivan Riteman had to do before he decided on "Ghostbusters".Alrighty lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conaly Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Hi,SNES StarFox is called "Starwing" and N64 StarFox is called "Lylat Wars" here in EU, because a game licence with Starfox as brand was already registered in EU. I think Adventures and Assault could be published as StarFox, because the brand rights expired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Matt macdowel Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Nintendo had to buy the name "Star Fox" from Atari so they could use the name globally without anymore problems, kinda like what Ivan Riteman had to do before he decided on "Ghostbusters".source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEAKERnight. Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I don't really think Nintendo stole Starfox at all. The only problem with it was the name in Europe b/c of Starfox being used in an Atari game there. I think there was a comic with the Starfox name before the games came out too but who the fuck cares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Draco Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 To sum it all up: Nintendo made Starfox. They couldn't name it Starfox in Europe due to Copyright. Thus Europe gets Starwing and Lylat Wars. Once the copyright expired, Nintendo of Europe named the series Starfox again in Adventures.Right now, Nintendo owns the name Starfox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 To sum it all up: Nintendo made Starfox. They couldn't name it Starfox in Europe due to Copyright. Thus Europe gets Starwing and Lylat Wars. Once the copyright expired, Nintendo of Europe named the series Starfox again in Adventures.Right now, Nintendo owns the name Starfox....and hopefully always :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hope(N Forever) Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Methinks you guys are pretty confused about the topic that began here. I don't think Matt macdowel is referring to the very Star Fox game which you guys are thinking about at all!In fact, he is specifically referring to a very different game called Starfox (without the space between "star" and "fox", unlike the title of Atari 2600 game which has the exact name of our beloved Star Fox game, as in Nintendo's game.)Let me explain. In 1983, a company called Mythicon developed and released a game called Star Fox (with a space in-between) for the Atari 2600 console. This company managed to register the name of the game in Europe, but not in the United States. The company pretty much closed down before they could. The irony here they managed to release the game in the U.S., but the 1983 Star Fox never saw the light of day in Europe at all! Unfortunately, because of Mythicon's registered entry, this is why ten years later Nintendo had trouble getting the name "Star Fox" In Europe and ended up renaming the game as Starwing. Australians had to endure the same name as well, because usually PAL games tend to remain consistent when titled differently from their American and/or Japanese counter-parts.Four years after the Atari 2600 game, in 1987, a company called Ariolasoft released a game called Starfox (without a space in-between) for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC gaming platforms. Unlike the 1983 game, this game was very much released in Europe under the very same name! It should have been in Europe, as Ariolasoft was a German company!In this case, it is very unlikely that the 1987 game was cause for renaming Nintendo's Star Fox as Starwing! The 1983 game was the more likely cause of the renaming, but Matt macdowel wasn't referring to that game at all!In other words, Matt macdowel is trying to find out whether Nintendo stole the name from Ariolasoft (or Mythicon). Well, I highly doubt that for many reasons. A lot of space-based games, as well as comics and movies, may likely have the term "star" in their titles (Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.), and "fox" is usual term that people tend to tag pilots and aircraft. Therefore, "star fox" is not unique at all! Furthermore, Nintendo is a Japanese company, and during those days not many people had internet to easily check up on small companies in other countries such as Ariolasoft (or Mythicon). Nintendo could have been easily very ignorant of the fact that previous games had similar names. Besides, it wouldn't matter anyway, as both companies had long shut their doors before Nintendo got to actually release our beloved Star Fox into the market, which was first in Japan before anywhere else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Matt macdowel Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 ...and hopefully always im just saying both games are very similar in fact! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrilwood Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 The irony here they managed to release the game in the U.S., but the 1983 Star Fox never saw the light of day in Europe at all! Unfortunately, because of Mythicon's registered entry, this is why ten years later Nintendo had trouble getting the name "Star Fox" In Europe and ended up renaming the game as Starwing.Correction, it was renamed Lylat Wars. Although now days its called Starfox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Macdowel Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 both games have a similar storylinein Star fox the one that came first was about your a pilot fighting off alien invasionsStarfox the one Nintendo made was about Rebels invading the lylat system and your pilot fighting them off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 They aren't that similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Macdowel Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 They aren't that similar.there very similar though.... although one you play as human and the other a fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainfyre66 Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 there very similar though.... although one you play as human and the other a foxWell, one would imagine that a sci-fi shooter game created in days when games couldn't support the involved gameplay and storytelling that's found in today's games, would result in games being quite similar. I mean, think of most sci-fi media in general, most do have a basic story line of a race either defending themselves against aliens or rebelling against some intergalactic tyranny... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vy'drach Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Indeed, most sci-fi games can essentially be boiled down to "Species/group A is trying to repel species/group B"It applies for Halo, Mass Effect, Unreal (not the tournaments, just Unreal), Duke Nukem, etc. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asper Sarnoff Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Indeed, most sci-fi games can essentially be boiled down to "Species/group A is trying to repel species/group B"It applies for Halo, Mass Effect, Unreal (not the tournaments, just Unreal), Duke Nukem, etc. etc.Second this. Countless movies follow that simple recipe as well.That was also one of the reasons I found Camerons Avatar interesting. For once, the humans were the invaders, which was a somewhat interesting twist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Macdowel Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Well, one would imagine that a sci-fi shooter game created in days when games couldn't support the involved gameplay and storytelling that's found in today's games, would result in games being quite similar. I mean, think of most sci-fi media in general, most do have a basic story line of a race either defending themselves against aliens or rebelling against some intergalactic tyranny... true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrypticQuery Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that the reason why in Europe SF64 is called Lylat Wars, because there was a previous game with the title SF?Regardless, © Nintendo stays put.Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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