Various new locations and recurring sites appear with each subsequent installment in the F-Zero video game series. Many characters from these games have courses taking place on their own home planet. Earth is the host of some of the more well-known locations in these video games. Even though in this franchise most planets are briefly mentioned, a few contain much more elaborate information.
Locations
Race locations by game | ||||
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Originated from F-Zero | ||||
Mute City | Big Blue | Sand Ocean | Death Wind | |
Silence | Port Town | Red Canyon | White Land | |
Fire Field | ||||
Originated from F-Zero X | ||||
Devil's Forest | Sector Alpha | Sector Beta | Rainbow Road | |
Space Plant | Big Hand | Big Foot | ||
Originated from F-Zero: Maximum Velocity | ||||
Bianca City | Stark Farm | Empyrean Colony | Cloud Carpet | |
Tenth Zone East | Beacon Port | Synobazz | Ancient Mesa | |
Crater Land | ||||
Originated from GX / AX | ||||
Cosmo Terminal | Phantom Road | Green Plant | Casino Palace | |
Lightning | Aeropolis | Outer Space | Flag Open | |
Originated from F-Zero: GP Legend | ||||
Mist Flow | Illusion | |||
Originated from F-Zero Climax | ||||
Minor locations
Minor planets and locations | ||||
Planet: | Summary: | |||
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Clifoto | It appeared in the episode titled "Burn out on planet Clifoto" in the anime, F-Zero: GP Legend.[1] The only mentionable thing about this planet is that it is very hot. | |||
Giant | The home of Baba is a planet with expansive tracts of green land.[2] | |||
Huckmine |
This is the home to the brown-skinned Furikake people, including Gomar and Shioh. Their custom have the people paired up with a partner when they are born and must do everything together.[3] | |||
Magica | Princia is the princess of the Desert Kingdom on this planet, which is a society with highly advanced scientific knowledge. She snuck off to travel around the universe with her servants, and when she came to Earth, she saw an F-Zero race and decided that she wanted to be a pilot.[3] | |||
Mandrill 4 | Michael Chain's gang, the Bloody Chain, is from Angelopolis, a city on this planet. | |||
Odyapes | This planet is the home of the genetically engineered ape, Billy. The Big Blue race courses featured in F-Zero X are actually held here. | |||
Shinar | This planet is home to a telepathic race, who have a life span of 200 years and are only about three feet tall. Dai, San and Gen come from this planet.[3] | |||
Silence | A planet where not a single noise can be heard.[4] According to F-Zero: GP Legend, this planet received its name because no living creatures are native to it. | |||
Takora | It is home to a race of red-skinned intelligent octopuses called Takoraians. F-Zero GX stated that this planet is economically devastated due to the on-going war with the Milky Way Space Federation and the battle between the two gets more tense with each passing day.[2] Octoman is a representative of Takora who will give his race winnings to secure their future. The Takoraians do not have highly advanced scientific technology, so it was difficult for them to build a quality racer.[3] | |||
Tortiz 3 | Pico's biography in F-Zero X states that it is speculated he is from planet Tortiz 3,[5] even though in the first F-Zero title states he is from Death Wind.[4] | |||
White | A giant crocodile on this planet attacked Beastman which inspired him to hunt dangerous alien animals. | |||
Zou (Kericho) | A planet that had been in a war 12 years previously, which is home to a bipedal, beast like race. Leon wants to use his race money to keep the children from this planet out of poverty. In F-Zero X, Kericho is said to be Leon's home planet, but in F-Zero GX it is called Zou. |
Notes
- ↑ Burn Out on Planet Clifoto. TV.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 (2003-08-25) in Amusement Vision: F-Zero GX instruction manual (in English). Nintendo, pp. 34.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Pelland, Scott (ed.) (2003). F-Zero GX Player's Guide. Redmond, Washington: Nintendo of America, Inc. ISBN 1930206-35-6.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 (1991-08-13) in Nintendo EAD: F-Zero instruction manual (in English). Nintendo, pp. 16, 18-19.
- ↑ Sackenheim, Shawn. Pico's Biography. All Game Guide. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
References
- F-Zero instruction manual at Replacementdocs. Last accessed on December 14, 2007.