With the recent announcement that Nintendo will be releasing a SNES Classic Mini later this year, one of the big surprises was that it would include the previously unreleased Star Fox 2. And so we decided to bring back our award winning* Throwback Thursday column for a closer look at Star Fox 2. Including, an entire play-through of the game.

In many ways, the Super FX chip was the Super Nintendo’s answer to the onslaught of oncoming 3D games, the PC market, and all of the additional Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis) hardware add-ons that were being released at the time. Sitting comfortably next to game data as part of a Super Nintendo cartridge, the Super FX chip introduced a RISC processor that could be used for any number of functions, including the rendering of 3D polygons. By no means a lot of polygons, but just enough to be technically impressive. In a partnership with Nintendo, Argonaut Games showcased the new technology with the release of 1993’s Star Fox – or as it was known in Australia, Starwing.

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* - Award still pending.