{"id":41567,"date":"2017-10-04T04:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/original-star-fox-staffer-tells-story-of-sequels-shelving-surprise-launch\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T04:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:04:45","slug":"original-star-fox-staffer-tells-story-of-sequels-shelving-surprise-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/original-star-fox-staffer-tells-story-of-sequels-shelving-surprise-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Star Fox staffer tells story of sequel\u2019s shelving, surprise launch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Dylan Cuthbert, in a goofy photo sent to Ars by his current company Q Games. (credit: Q Games)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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There’s a chance\u2014albeit a slim one, thanks to launch-week sellouts\u2014that you’ve gotten your hands on Nintendo’s brand-new Super NES Classic Edition hardware<\/a>. If you did get one, there’s a significant chance\u00a0you made a beeline for its most interesting game: Star Fox 2<\/em>, the company’s canceled 1996 space shooter. This game’s circumstances are incredibly rare for the game industry: a shelved, completely finished game resurfacing\u00a021 years later as a surprise “from the vault” gem.<\/p>\n

If you think you were surprised by Star Fox 2<\/em>‘s appearance after all this time, though, you have nothing on the sequel’s lead programmer, Dylan Cuthbert.<\/p>\n

The former Argonaut Software programmer and eventual founder of Q Games (makers of the delightful Pixeljunk series) says he learned about Star Fox 2<\/em>‘s retail release the same way everyone else did: via Twitter. “It was one of the greatest days of my life,” he told Ars in an e-mail interview about that surprise discovery. He even slapped an ASCII smiley face onto that sentence to drive the point home. Better late than never!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ Dylan Cuthbert, in a goofy photo sent to Ars by his current company Q Games. (credit: Q Games) There’s a chance\u2014albeit a slim one, thanks to launch-week sellouts\u2014that you’ve gotten your hands on Nintendo’s brand-new Super NES Classic Edition hardware. If you did get one, there’s a significant chance\u00a0you made a beeline for… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t