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The Super NES game was the first game to include the Super FX chip, a coprocessor that provided (at the time) cutting edge 3D polygon graphics, years before [[Sega Saturn]], [[Sony Playstation]] and [[Nintendo 64]] made this the norm in console video game design.

** 28-year old Falco was originally almost a decade older than his 19-year old rebooted persona in ''[[Star Fox 64]]''. He was not a [[Bishonen]], and his head sported more of a feather mohawk than the pointy tip in his later appearance. All this accomplished to make him more of a [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]] and certainly more masculine in appearance. It was specifically ''this'' incarnation of Falco that was specifically [[Expy|Expyed]] as Eric Bradley Hawthorne in ''[[The Class Menagerie]]'' ([[Hilarious in Hindsight|also]] [[Ambiguously Gay]]). One thing that didn't change much about Falco's characterization, was that he was [[Only in It For the Money]] in both incarnations, and [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules|much to the annoyance]] of pre-reboot Fox.

** Unlike 42-year old Peppy in ''64'', this 36-year old Peppy was barely middle-aged, and certainly not old enough to be a [[Parental Substitute]] to a Fox who was already fully-grown. But Peppy was still the best friend of Fox's father, so he was still the team's [[Cool Old Guy]], and his affection towards Fox made him the perfect [[Big Brother Mentor]]. His perky chirpy personality also made him a lot more...[[Meaningful Name|peppy]].

* [[Cute'Em Up]]: The level 'Out of This Dimension' is to the rest of the game what ''[[Parodius]]'' is to ''[[Gradius]]''.

* [[The Exile]]: Fox McCloud Jr. and his companions were originally [[Ace Pilot|Ace Pilots]] in [[Redshirt Army|Corneria Defense Force]]. But after the incident that created the [[Unrealistic Black Hole|Black Hole]] and caused his father's disappearance, Fox and his friends protested. Cornerian leadership was terrified of Andross's growing power on Venom, and exiled the crew to Fox's ancestral home planet Papetoon to try to avoid Andross's wrath. [[It Got Worse|It didn't work]], and Venom soon conquered Papetoon and invaded Corneria, turning the latter into a tense warzone while Fox and his friends spent the next few years just trying to hide and survive. At the beginning of the main story, General Pepper suspended their exile and they smuggled themselves back to Corneria.

* [[No Export for You]]: The companion comic by Benimaru Itoh was made in the Western left-to-right horizontal text style rather than the typical Japanese right-to-left vertical text style, and this Western-style format was also used later with ''[[Manga]]/FarewellBelovedFalco''. But whereas ''Farewell'' wasn't officially published outside Japan, the ''Star Fox 1'' comic wasn't officially published ''in'' Japan. But they both enjoy [[Canon]] status within their respective [[Continuity Reboot|continuities]].

* [[Percussive Prevention]]: Falco violently decks Fox to prevent him from going on a dangerous unauthorized mission alone. Falco then decks Fox ''[[Crosses the Line Twice|again]] [[Kick the Dog|while he's down]]'', while reminding Fox of [[Tsundere|how much he cares about him]]. Falco almost hits him a third time, when the others remind him that putting Fox in solitary confinement is a more sensible option. Fox later escapes from confinement and returns the favor on Falco, knocking him out of the Arwing cockpit onto the ground.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Fox's scarf.

* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Averted more often than ''64'' did, but there are still a few notable examples.