#F-Zero: GP Legend

[nintendometro]

The Japanese commercial for 'F-Zero: GP Legend' on the Game Boy Advance.

[satoshi-mochida]

Game Boy Advance - Nintendo Switch Online adds F-Zero: GP Legend and F-Zero Climax on October 11 - Gematsu

Game Boy Advance – Nintendo Switch Online will add F-Zero: GP Legend and F-Zero Climax on October 11, Nintendo announced.

F-Zero: GP Legend first launched on November 28, 2003 in Japan, followed by June 4, 2004 in Europe and September 20, 2004 in North America. F-Zero Climax first launched on October 21, 2004 in Japan, and was not released in the western world.

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October 2024 Game Updates: Game Boy Advance – Nintendo Switch Online

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[g4zdtechtv]

THE PILE PRESENTS: X-Play - WCG 2004 Special | 10/18/04

Who says you can't go home? Especially when you go...

🎵 BEYOND THE GAME 🎵

[burgers-in-anime]

F-Zero: GP Legend, episode 17: "Ryu's Magnificent Day Off" (2004)

[felis-rach]

AYOOO WHATS UP IM HERE TO POST CRINGE 😎😎😎

I started shipping them out of nowhere. And tHEN I found out the ship ACTUALLY EXISTS?? I'm so happy. There are so many cute fanarts for it here on Tumblr. Here's my humble contribution

(Also throwing here my idea of Olimar being able to carry a smaller onion around as a backpack so the pikmin can accompany him out of PNF-404!)

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: F-Zero: GP Legend [2004]

[sepublic]

I don’t care if you’re not an F-Zero fan, I need you to discover this unhinged lore I discovered about a racing game series. Because apparently this vehicle, called the Death Anchor, was originally an interplanetary ballistic missile stolen from the Galactic Federation, and some evil group modified it into a race car. But it’s still rigged to blow up and the current pilot, Zoda, doesn’t know this. And he’s racing it against a bunch of other racers in a highly-televised Grand Prix.

Now with that out of the way, I also want to discuss what this means regarding my desire for a Metroid show to share the same canon as F-Zero GP Legend and incorporate elements from it. Because now I want to allude to this fact by having a Federation interplanetary ballistic missile look suspiciously Death Anchor-shaped. Make it an Easter egg only the most hardcore fans can spot. Because this is simply the most insane thing ever to me and I’m also curious as to what the original missile looked like.

Does anyone in-universe realize the resemblance, do they believe it’s just a coincidence or simply made to look like it, or even if it was repurposed surely Zoda defused the damn thing right??? And then one day someone has to break it to him that he’s driving an active nuke on a race track within a city. This is something you launch from the surface of one planet so it can travel through space and explode on another planet.

Furthermore: When Zoda gets upgraded into his Hyper form in the GP Legend anime, he also gets a new, separate vehicle called the Hyper Death Anchor. I dunno if its resemblance to the original model is purely aesthetical, or if it’s also a repurposed nuke that hasn’t been defused. Because the last we see of it, it’s hurled inside of Black Shadow’s Dark Matter Reactor, which is also a bomb meant to blow up the universe, alongside Zoda himself. And the reactor is blown up, but by an outside source and without the necessary juice it needs; So the explosion is confined to the empty corner of space it originated.

But now I’m gonna say the big explosion we see at the end of the final battle isn’t just from the reactor going kaboom, it’s also from the nuke inside finally going off. And somehow Zoda, who was inside both machines in a matryoshka of explosives, survives all this unscathed and is last seen participating in another race. Using the original, canonically-repurposed and still-active nuke from before, his first Death Anchor. And he still doesn’t know that both vehicles were repurposed nukes still ready to go off, and that one of them did.

Is this a reference to Back to the Future? It’s an 80’s classic turned film trilogy involving a Time Machine built out of a car; Its inventor got the radioactive energy source he needed to power it by promising a terrorist organization to build a bomb for them if they secured said nuclear materials and gave it to him; He lied and sent them a dud. All of this prompts his friend to ask, you’re telling me this thing is nuclear? The Time Machine doesn’t explode, but the fact that a dangerous component was originally meant for a missile, and you can drive it, reminds me of Death Anchor…

Funnily enough, Death Anchor’s origins and volatile nature are lore from the games. Its pilot Zoda is canonically an enhanced, cybernetic human pumped full of chemicals to perform better. In the aforementioned GP Legend anime, he was revealed to have been created by Black Shadow in the future, and then sent back in time to get the main protagonist killed, to prevent his destiny. So, being sent back to the future to change the present, an explosive car meant to be a bomb at one point…

[800db-cloud]

jody’s not going to be happy about this one

[teradrive64]

Lucy Liberty Emotes 1.5.0 expansion

[goldenfox3]

Welcome back, GP Legend! And welcome to the rest of the world, Climax!

[southpawstylist]

shadow's air shoe makes a great f-zero machine i think

[nintendometro]

'F-Zero: GP Legend' was released on the Game Boy Advance 20 years ago today in Japan.

[holykhepri]

Anthony... I'm glad I could see you once more.

[rallymoon]

Draq from F-Zero

[felis-rach]

In reference to your shipping request, what about the two captains swapping vehicles for a day?

OH BOY DO I HAVE THOUGHTS ON THIS

I'm sure they'd be perfectly fine with it! <3

First, let's see how Olimar's day goes...

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...Maybe Falcon handled it better...?

...Or maybe not.

Ok I got really carried away w this one bc the idea was comedic gold JKSJKKJS thanks for the ask <3

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: F-Zero: GP Legend [2004]