![]() Nintendo designed their 3D rail-shooter game, Star Fox (which was renamed Starwing for the PAL release due to trademarking issues), based on this chip that was built into the game cartridge itself, and in doing so released the first 3D graphics accelerator in a consumer product. ![]() Argonaut agreed to develop a custom chip that the SNES could use to make it better at 3D, and the final product, the Super FX Chip, was more powerful than the SNES' standard processor by leaps and bounds. With them, Nintendo developed a prototype for a similar style of game on the NES (aptly titled NESGlider), but even after it was ported to SNES, it was found that the SNES hardware's capabilities for anything presented in three dimensions was severely lacking. seriesĭuring the early years of the NES and SNES, Nintendo worked closely with Argonaut Software, who had previously developed the 3D wireframe vector graphics-based space shooter Starglider for old computers such as Commodore 64. ![]()
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