F-Zero 99 Announced for Switch, Available Today - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 September 2023 / 3,183 Views
Nintendo has announced F-Zero 99 for the Nintendo Switch. It will release today for free to Nintendo Switch Online members.
View the announcement trailer below:
Read details on the game below:
Rev up your engines and get ready to tear up the track, because with 99 racers on the course the margin for error is zero! F-Zero 99 features courses and machines from the original Super NES game in challenging multiplayer races brimming with high-speed, high-stakes action. Your Power Meter is your key to first place – it will decrease if you crash, or you can burn some of it to fuel a temporary speed boost. If the meter runs out, you’re eliminated! You can even relive your F-Zero glory days with the Super NES controller, available exclusively to Nintendo Switch Online members. Plus, complete goals while racing to unlock cosmetic options for your machine, so you can be as flashy as you are fast. Race your way to first place in F-Zero 99, available exclusively for active Nintendo Switch Online members … later today!
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Pain.... ;(
Sees F-Zero
Me :)
F-Zero 99
Me :(
I Love it!!
I’ll BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF YOU ALL!!!
at nintendo.
well... here's to continuing to wait for a new FZero game. Maybe for Switch 2...?
I've been trying this game and it's quite entertaining.
I don't like 2d racers, on F Zero I just like X (my favorite OST) and GX.
SO I wish this is successful enough to justify a new F Zero :)
F-Zero: Federation Force
I would have been more okay with this if it had original track designs instead of just reusing the ones from the SNES game.
Looks really cool! Will be playing this later today. Though it would have been insanely cool if they had done F-Zero X 99 instead, but hey this still looks very fun. All the "99" games are great
All the ppl getting their hopes too high are so mad rn lol. The way I see it: Nintendo actually acknowledged F-Zero’s existence! This is a huge deal!! They literally said “F-Zero is back” in the direct: symbolically this is pretty big win.
agreed. This is the first work they've done on an Fzero game in 20 years!
Completely agree! I had never played any of the 99 games, but I'll sure play this one. F-Zero is my favorite racer of all time and the one I played the most. It was also a showcase to kill Mega Drive/Genesis owners with envy for what they could not have back in the day lololol. This is kind of big news.
Just played it for a bit. It's pretty sweet. And they did a lot more to the game than just add 99 players to Fzero. We may not have a new Fzero game for many years, but FzeroX and Fzero99 both on Switch are awesome.
And hopefully F-Zero: Maximum Velocity will also come to NSO.
I like these 99 games. Not really sure why people are angry about this line of games.
Yeah 99 games are awesome and fzero as a 99 game looks great. Not sure what people wanted. I mean we know that Nintendo isn't working on a new Fzero game because someone from Nintendo said not too long ago that they haven't come up with any new gameplay ideas for the series so they aren't working on an fzero. So only realistic option was a remaster or port of GX which would have been awesome but this is awesome cuz it's free with NSO so millions of us can immediately play fzero99 today!
