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I'm bored and feel like raving a bit. You've been warned.

My first introduction to the Star Fox series was when I was being babysat by a girl who promptly left and foisted me on her younger brother (who was still older than me) and I watched him play Star Fox, specifically the battle against Phantron on Venom. I remember that pretty vividly. I enjoyed it so much, mostly because the graphics were in THREE DEE and it was so freaking awesome, so he let me borrow the game. After which, my parents bought the game for me proper and I enjoyed it for as long as my SNES worked (which wasn't that long, surprisingly, even though I was pretty careful with it) This is the game where, if you ask me about 90s, this is what I think of. The spacey digital noises, the 70s-80s style scifi designs, the utter fancy of the setting is what I really think of with the space age 90s.

Then I saw an advertisement for Star Fox 2 and got excited! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
And we all know how that ended, only to be brought back recently.

Flashforward to the late 90s, I'm a kid, the N64 is the hottest new thing, and my parents buy me a Nintendo 64 that came with Star Fox 64, because I recognized it as being the sequel to my beloved SNES game. I was happy. I played through until I got all of the medals in both modes, which took me quite awhile because the game was pretty hard for a kid.

I was pretty ecstatic when I unlocked on-foot mode and got to see Fox, Falco, Slippy, and Peppy outside of their vehicles blasting people. Take note, this will be important later.

Anyways, this was also the age where we were starting to be connected to the internet more often. The computer age had gone from brief sojourns into AOL BBSes to the internet as a whole. As I grew older, I was given more freedoms, and I did my best to not abuse those freedoms. Cue me discovering a website called sfx64.com (which is still up, but hasn't been updated since 2002) and the forum that went with it - Outside the Greatfox (which has been down for over a decade and even the Wayback Machine can't find much of it)

And that... is where I more or less discovered the furry fandom, though this was before I knew what it was called so I just assumed that it was a Star Fox specific thing for the time being. Oh how naive and innocent I was. Minus the innocent part because I was actually kind of a brat who didn't really understand he was being a brat. This was also where I met a good friend who, sadly, recently passed away (as some of you may remember me posting about.)

Moving on... then the gamecube came out and with it, a new game.

Star Fox Adventures.

Everybody hates this game, right? Not me. Remember how I said I was happy to see the team outside of their vehicles in the multiplayer mode for the 64 game? This game was exactly what I wanted to see - an entire game where Fox spends most of his time outside of the arwing going on an adventure.

And then it had magic on top of that, along with the familiar and pleasant Zelda format, and this game was amazing for me. I played it several times!

It was also about this time that I realized I was attracted to Fox, which was a bit of a dilemma because, well, did I mention I was a Good Christian Boy who couldn't possibly be gay because God planned for him to be a good father and husband?

(This, however, would become overshadowed by my attraction to Bowser, I should mention.)

Of course, at this point, people were already crying about Star Fox being ruined and I promptly began rolling my eyes and haven't stopped since.

(part 2 coming)
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