Designer(s) Bruce De Graaf Developer Mythicon Genre Shooter game | Initial release date 1983 Publisher Mythicon Platform Atari 2600 | |
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Modes Single-player video game, Multiplayer video game Similar Name This Game, Spacechase, Flag Capture, Spike's Peak, Sky Jinks | ||
Star Fox is a video game for the Atari 2600 console, developed and published by Mythicon in 1983. Although the front cover of the game states "Game 1 in the Star Fox Series," no sequels were ever made.
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Plot
The game takes place in the year 4024 AD. The story begins as a robot freighter carrying a cargo of extremely valuable trimetalisium energy crystals crash lands on the planetoid Beta-7. An enemy star cruiser, escorted by a squadron of fighter drones, is en route to the planetoid to seize the crystals.
The player's objective is to recover the crystals before the enemy while doing battle with the fighter drones.
Reception
In a Digital Press article on the worst games for the Atari 2600, Star Fox was ranked nineteenth:
[...] you control a spaceship on a mission to extract gems beneath the ocean depths. Your ship is defenseless at the bottom of the screen, and amazingly the gems become intelligent and avoid your efforts while taking advantage of the fact that your ship cannot move sideways while at the bottom. Only one enemy and one gem per screen. The playfield and difficulty never change. I give credit to Mythicon for not releasing their second cart in the "Star Fox Series".