| Known for the fastest racing games, the F-Zero series has experienced great success on each Nintendo system it has touched. Starting on the SNES, F-Zero was introduced into the gaming community. On the N64, F-Zero X was highly praised as one of the greatest racing games of its time. As for next generation consoles, F-Zero: Maximum Velocity for the GBA also did extremely well as a launch game.
Now, Sega and Nintendo have teamed up to bring us the next installment in this great racing series. However, for the first time ever, F-Zero will break out of the home console and enter the universe of arcade systems. Not only will F-Zero be a game for the Nintendo GameCube, it will be an arcade game. F-Zero GC and AC are looking great and anticipation has been growing since E3. Check out the great first shots of the new F-Zero game below.
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Here is the Press Release for the Sega - Nintendo Team up:
New Game System to Integrate F-ZERO Arcade and Console Entertainment March 28, 2002 - Tokyo, Japan – SEGA® Corporation and Nintendo Co., Ltd. today announced that the two companies have teamed up to develop “F-Zero (working title)” video game titles for the next-generation 3D-CG Triforce arcade board and the Nintendo GameCube™. As part of the agreement, SEGA and Nintendo will collaborate on the projects using a new game system that will enable the arcade and console games to interact via “Memory Card 59.” The announcement builds off the previously announced alliance between SEGA and Nintendo on February 18, 2002 to develop the Triforce arcade board and reinforces the companies’ strategies to integrate arcade and home console entertainment. Under the agreement, SEGA and Nintendo will co-develop two new video game titles - “F-ZERO AC (working title)” for the arcade and “F-ZERO GC (working title)” for Nintendo GameCube. AMUSEMENT VISION, LTD, a SEGA Studio, will develop the “F-ZERO” games under the supervision of Nintendo. “F-ZERO AC (working title)” will be published by SEGA and “F-ZERO GC (working title)” will be published by Nintendo. “F-ZERO” titles will be unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and released in late 2002. The Triforce board and Nintendo GameCube are based on the same architecture, and they will be interfaced through the special peripheral, “Memory Card 59.” This joint project originated from AMUSEMENT VISION, which had a vision to create an arcade game that could interact with the Nintendo GameCube. SEGA and Nintendo have now come together to make this joint project a reality.
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