Sam's video game collection essentials

Nintendo’s futuristic, high-speed racing series debuted with a launch title on the Super Nintendo and effectively showed off the power of the hardware. The sequel, F-Zero, came years later in the middle of the Nintendo 64’s lifespan and effectively reimagined the concept of the first game in 3D with impressive results, though not with impressive sales. For the launch of the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo made a brand new F-Zero game titled Maximum Velocity, which felt very much like a successor to the original Super Nintendo game. Unfortunately Maximum Velocity isn’t making my list, I never was a fan of the game’s “slippery” controls and thus never at any point put very much time into it. But F-Zero wasn’t done on the GBA. In 2003, an F-Zero anime would be produced. An anime tie-in made sense, since F-Zero X had introduced a large cast of interesting-looking characters that had potential to be expounded upon. I can’t tell you a whole lot about the anime because…well, I never really watched...