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Port Town (ポートタウン; Port Town) is famously known as an intergalactic trades center and is the home of the bounty hunter and F-Zero racer, Captain Falcon. Port Town's architecture is marked by towering skyscrapers and pyramid-shaped office buildings, and the town is bordered by mountains. A giant construction robot that looks like R.O.B. in Famicom colors can be seen in the background on top of two buildings in F-Zero GX.

The 26th century is dominated by intense competition between planets for profitable interstellar trade. Due to this competition, other planets have invested huge fortunes in the creation of massive space harbors to increase traffic; Earth's answer to this resulted in the creation of the Port Town space harbor. The Port Town space harbor has been built with the newest technological and aesthetic refinements in mind. This multilayered structure is centered around a massive structure towering three miles above the ground and is the largest space harbor in the universe.[1]

Appearance in the games[]

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Port Town Aero Dive in F-Zero GX

In the original F-Zero, Port Town appears twice; Port Town II, in particular, has dangerous side magnets.

F-Zero X[]

Port Town appears four times in F-Zero X:

  • Port Town 1 has a sharp, dirt patch, and a high jump.
  • Port Town 2 is much like Port Town II from the original, minus the side magnets, and many sections of the course have narrow roads.
  • Port Town 3 contains a zig-zag crank and many narrow places; Port Town 4 is full of traps.

F-Zero AX/GX[]

Port Town appears three times in F-Zero GX/AX. It is the only environment that is used multiple times in the same cup (both GX circuits are found in the Sapphire Cup).

  • Aero Dive has two sections of "stepped" ramps that drop the racers down across a series of separated track segments, one of which makes up the major back straight of the circuit. The drop into the straight is also very high, much like Port Town 1 in F-Zero X, and is reached by traversing a completely vertical segment of track.
  • Long Pipe primarily takes place in a completely tubular racing surface that has no edges. The middle part of the circuit drops the racers into a series of "funnel" sections that are populated by slowly spinning wheels consisting of two, three, then six "spokes" that attempt to obstruct the racers. There is also an undulating section and a section near the end that forces the drivers to avoid stationary columns before the tube returns to a normal race surface.
  • Cylinder Wave, from the AX Cup, could be seen as the inversion to Long Pipe in that it takes place on a cylinder where the race surface wraps around the outside of a rounded "core" that can be driven on all sides. The cylinder is relatively oblong in shape in most places, meaning there is a defined top and bottom to the race surface. The Start/Finish line happens at the bottom of a very large drop, meaning this is the only circuit where the racers do not pass under the gate to finish a lap.

F-Zero GP Legend[]

Port Town has three tracks in F-Zero: GP Legend:

  • Forked Road has multiple jump plates and several linking tracks which could be confusing to the player if they don't keep an eye on the course map.
  • Forked Road II, which is similar to Forked Road.
  • Port Town II (based on the course from the original's King League), this course can be risky, although it is easier with a lighter machine to make the difficult jump.

It also appears in Rick's, Jody's, Jack's and Captain Falcon's Stories which mostly have a time limit, or if they need to clobber Blood Falcon before the goal.

F-Zero Climax[]

In F-Zero Climax, Port Town appears three times;

  • Half Dome.
  • Sky Highway.
  • Great Wings which is a remake of the original's course.

Anime[]

Port Town makes an appearance during Lap 15, Target Tanaka, when John Tanaka was awaiting Kate Alen's concert at the Diamond Star cruise; coincidentally Zoda was smuggling his stolen data chips off-planet, til the Task Force stopped him and Pico as they gave them the slip.

In the Smash Bros. series[]

Port Town Aero Dive is a playable stage in Brawl, which appears as a starter stage. On the My Music page on Brawl, no music that is used in Port Town from all the F-Zero games that it appears in are used in Port Town Aero Dive when many different themes from different within the games itself make an appearance.

This stage also returns in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U as an exclusive stage for the Wii U version of the game, where many elements for the previous game return.

Trivia[]

  • Port Town is the only location that appears twice in the same cup. Both Aero Dive and Long Pipe appear in the Sapphire Cup.
  • F-Zero X's Port Town 2 being nearly the same as the first F-Zero's second Port Town course marks the first time an F-Zero title recycled a course from a previous game (this would continue in F-Zero: GP Legend and F-Zero: Climax in the form of the "Platinum Cup").
  • The GX version of Port Town has a large-scale replica of the classic Nintendo peripheral R.O.B (Robotic Operating Buddy) in the background. He is most visible in the Aero Dive course.
  • Port Town is a part of GP Legend's and Climax's Platinum Cups which are based off the original's circuit.

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References[]

  1. Planet & Course. Sega / Nintendo. Retrieved on 2006-06-14. “The 26th century is dominated by intense competition between planets for profitable interstellar trade. As a result of this competition, planets have invested huge fortunes in the creation of massive space harbors to increase traffic. The Port Town space harbor, for example, has been built with the newest technological and aesthetic refinements in mind. This multilayered structure is centered around a massive structure towering three miles above the ground and is the largest space harbor in the universe.”

 

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