10 Video Games That Pushed Consoles To The Limit
3. Star Fox - SNES
Back in the 90s, new graphical advancements were happening almost every day. Every new leap in graphics tech was immediately recognizable as A Big Deal because it was all unchartered territory. These days, the change from 4K and 8K isn't quite as immediately obvious as, say, from 2D to 3D.
Enter the original Star Fox, the SNES game so advanced it needed a whole new software chip installed to make it work.
The Super FX chip allowed for 3D polygonal graphics to render on the normally sprite-based SNES. It was a huge advancement for the system, and the industry at the time, and Star Fox displayed just what it was capable of.
Star Fox is the good side of the same coin that rests SNES Doom. It pushes the console to its absolute limits but is clearly made with those limits in mind so that the whole thing can gel together better. The result is a stone-cold classic of the SNES library.