I've been playing a good amount of GBA recently and it struck that the console got three whole F-Zero games over it's lifetime. For a franchise that has really only seen six console releases total (the 64DD release was an Expansion Pack really and, lol, 64DD) and that Nintendo has shown middling support for at best, it seems wild to me that they released one on SNES, one on N64, one on GameCube and then THREE back-to-back on the Gameboy Advance. And then... that was it. The series was never to be seen again.
I think a big part of it being.. surprising to me is that, when I think of F-Zero, the GBA games are the absolute dead last entries that I think of. I think of F-Zero X or SNES F-Zero or Sega's amazing GameCube entry. I never ever jump to the GBA as an F-Zero console, yet that was the platform that saw literally half of all the F-Zero games.
Were they even that popular on GBA to warrant three titles? And, if so, why release three games back to back and then totally bin the franchise?
I remember playing a lot of Maximum Velocity but mainly because it was a launch title and of course you play a lot of the launch games.
Did you play any/all of them?
I think a big part of it being.. surprising to me is that, when I think of F-Zero, the GBA games are the absolute dead last entries that I think of. I think of F-Zero X or SNES F-Zero or Sega's amazing GameCube entry. I never ever jump to the GBA as an F-Zero console, yet that was the platform that saw literally half of all the F-Zero games.
Were they even that popular on GBA to warrant three titles? And, if so, why release three games back to back and then totally bin the franchise?
I remember playing a lot of Maximum Velocity but mainly because it was a launch title and of course you play a lot of the launch games.
Did you play any/all of them?