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A different concept, has always been the phrase used to distinguish the quality of a game with respect to others, that was F-Zero, a futuristic title that combined the racing genre with the genre of fiction, vehicles that were mobilized by means of plasma propellants that allowed them to fly at a short height to move at fairly high speeds in the respective circuits, To see this game was a way of seeing, for example, the popular cartoon "The Supersonics", which proposed a totally different style, alien to what was already known and with a bet that would mean the basis for the games of the future and of our present time.

F-Zero had 4 different vehicles, each of them with variables in design, speed, acceleration, weight and some other aspects that were detailed when selecting them, so we could choose the one we considered as the best option.

One aspect that could be considered as weak of the game was the absence of multiplayer mode, something that would have been amazing for this futuristic title, the game had the practice mode to improve our driving skills that used to be quite necessary because of the enormous difficulty of the game, and the Grand Prix mode that could be played in 3 different leagues: Knight, Queen, King, and in each of them you could choose between 3 levels of difficulty, being the "expert" a level in which it was quite difficult to get the victories along the 15 tracks available in each league.

Moving on to talk a little about the gameplay and graphical aspects of F-Zero, it is important to first mention that the game to achieve those visual effects of depth in 3D so characteristic, were made thanks to the "Mode7", which was a way of coupling the 2D planes to create a 3D visual effect, a rather ingenious way at the time that allowed to achieve that revolutionary visual effect in which we simply saw the rotation of a surface.

As for the gameplay, F-Zero had some controls for the vehicle quite comfortable and easy to memorize, the triggers "L" and "R" were used to tilt our vehicle and correct the position on the track, this was advisable to use, because if we used the arrow keys, the vehicle could make movements a little abrupt, there was a button for acceleration and a button to deploy the popular turbo, an element that was achieved by completing each lap on the circuit and that we could use whenever we wanted, although it was advisable to use it in straight areas.

We had to be very cautious when driving, because our vehicle had a damage bar that was decreasing as we hit the ends of the track, a rival or simply the non-flat areas of the circuit, every time this bar decreased a lot, we got an alert on the screen, and if it reached the minimum, our vehicle exploded and we automatically lost the race, Fortunately, there was a peculiar way to regenerate the state of the vehicle, and it was passing over a restoration area that was always a little ahead of the starting line, this did not completely restore the vehicle, but it gave a small recovery that allowed us a little more slack to continue in competition.

This great title became influential enough to sell more than a million copies worldwide, being an example for the following games to be released under the same genre, the ability to complete championships and receive as a reward a new level of difficulty, the fact of varying a little the design of the tracks as a reward after having come first in them, the musical setting, and all its aspects of gameplay that made F-Zero a game made for experts at the wheel, with a challenge beyond the thought, able to put the maximum use of our skills and show how capable we were of using our skills and demonstrate how capable we were of driving, and all aspects of gameplay that made F-Zero a game made for experts at the wheel, with a challenge beyond what we thought, able to put the maximum use of our skills and show how capable we were to complete leagues at the highest level of play, facing tracks with impossible curves and rivals managed by the cpu with an extreme level, all this and more led to F-Zero became a great reference for racing games.