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Nintendo 64 Starfox 64

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The piece

Star Fox 64 is a Nintendo cartridge from 1997, a rail-shooter built around the SNES original but redesigned from the ground up for N64 hardware. Fox McCloud, Falco, Peppy, Slippy: the Lylat System squad returned here with full voice acting for the first time, and the Rumble Pak integration shipped inside the box, making Star Fox 64 the first North American game to include force feedback as a pack-in feature. One cartridge. Gray shell, standard N64 form factor.

1997 was a heavy year for the N64. Super Mario 64 had already hit the year before, GoldenEye 007 arrived that same summer, and the console was in its full stride. Star Fox 64 launched in June 1997 and moved over 4 million copies worldwide by the time the generation closed. The branching mission paths are the detail collectors keep coming back to: there are 15 planets across the Lylat System, but a single playthrough only routes you through seven, meaning replay is baked into the design at a structural level. The Arwing sections, the Landmaster tank sequences on Titania, the Blue-Marine submarine stage on Aquas: each route has a medal threshold tied to enemy kill counts, which fed directly into unlocking Expert Mode. Miyamoto produced. Shigeru Miyamoto's fingerprints on a cartridge from this run means you are holding a first-party Nintendo release at the height of the company's N64 creative output. Las Vegas collectors who come through Container Park regularly flag this title as one of the N64 pieces they held off buying until the right copy came through.

The first N64 title to ship with Rumble Pak bundled, turning dogfights into something physical.

This copy is cartridge only, no box, no manual. Standard for a 27-year-old game that got played. The gray shell should be intact with no cracks along the seam lines; the label is the one to look at first. Star Fox 64 labels take scuffs and peeling from years of repeated insertion, so check the label surface for lifting at the corners and any ink loss around the title text. The connector pins on the underside of the cartridge are the final inspection point. Oxidation on the gold contacts will cause read errors on original hardware, so bring a flashlight or angle it under the shop light before you commit.

OWNER VERIFY: Confirm cartridge is Star Fox 64 (1997, NTSC-U), not the 3DS remake or a reproduction shell.

The first N64 title to ship with Rumble Pak bundled, turning dogfights into something physical.
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This is part of Nintendo's 90s run, the era that built the shop's back wall. Nintendo shipped cartridges, plush, promotional oddities, and packaging that most buyers threw out on the way to the game. What survived, mostly by accident, ends up here. Every piece is cleaned, photographed, and listed one at a time. Nothing on the archive shelf is a duplicate.

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Star Fox 64, original Nintendo 64 cartridge, 1997 release

Authentic gray Nintendo 64 cartridge, NUS-006 housing, NUS-NFXE-USA US release. Front label: Fox McCloud and the Arwing artwork, "Star Fox 64" wordmark, Nintendo 64 banner. Back label: title serial, Kids-to-Adults ESRB rating, Made In Japan stamp common on the launch run. Cart only as pictured, no box and no manual. Battery-backed SRAM on the cart still holds high scores and medals on most surviving copies, though battery life on a 1997 cart is variable and we do not warranty save retention.

The game and the team behind it

Star Fox 64 launched in Japan on April 27, 1997, in North America on June 30, 1997, and in Europe on October 20, 1997 (where it shipped as Lylat Wars due to a trademark conflict with a German studio). Nintendo EAD developed the game with Takaya Imamura directing, Shigeru Miyamoto producing, and Koji Kondo and Hajime Wakai handling the score. It was the followup to the 1993 SNES original, the game that introduced the Super FX chip and the polygonal Arwing.

The 64 entry rebuilt the formula on the new hardware. Lead Fox McCloud and the Star Fox squadron, Falco Lombardi, Slippy Toad, and Peppy Hare, defending the Lylat System from Andross. Full English voice acting, with Mike West voicing Fox and Rick May voicing Andross and Peppy. The voice barks are the soundtrack of N64 multiplayer for anyone who owned the cart: "Do a barrel roll!" from Peppy, "Can't let you do that, Star Fox!" from Wolf O'Donnell on the rival squadron, the radio chatter from Slippy when he gets locked on, all of it shipped in the cart.

Vehicles, modes, and branching paths

The Arwing is the primary starfighter and runs the Corridor Mode on-rails levels. All-Range Mode opens up 360-degree dogfighting on boss arenas, Sector Y, and the Venom finals. The Landmaster tank deploys on Macbeth and Titania. The Blue-Marine submarine is the Aquas-only vehicle, the underwater chapter most players see exactly once before routing somewhere else on replay.

The medal-and-route system is what kept Star Fox 64 in the cart slot for months. Hitting bonus objectives on a stage opens a harder branch through Lylat instead of the easy path, and the campaign has three different routes through the system depending on how cleanly you fly. Multiple endings, hidden paths, and an Expert mode that unlocks after the first clear and rewards medals at higher scoring thresholds. 1 to 4 player VS mode, no story co-op.

The Rumble Pak first

Star Fox 64 was the first North American Nintendo 64 game to ship with the Rumble Pak as a pack-in accessory at launch in June 1997. The Rumble Pak slotted into the Controller Pak port on the back of the N64 controller and added force feedback to compatible games, the first time a console controller had built-in vibration as a default-supported feature. Every Arwing hit, every Landmaster shell impact, every Andross core punch lands through the controller. Star Fox 64 is the cart that introduced that feedback loop, and most subsequent N64 titles built on it.

Reception and the collector argument

Game of the Year nominations across multiple outlets in 1997. 4.03 million copies sold on Nintendo's lifetime accounting across all regions. Frequent appearance on best-of-N64 lists in retrospective coverage. The argument for keeping a complete US cart on the shelf in 2026 is straightforward: the Virtual Console and Switch Online versions emulate the game cleanly, but the original cart with original Rumble Pak support is the only way to play it on a CRT the way it shipped, and the gray plastic shell is the format-of-record for any N64 collection.

Condition

Original gray Nintendo 64 cartridge with intact label as shown. Cart-only, see all photos for label condition, shell scuffing, and pin housing. Pre-owned. Pin contacts have not been re-tinned by us; light contact-cleaning may help on first boot if a copy hasn't been played in years. Save battery is original.

Sourcing and policy

Sourced through our Las Vegas storefront at 707 E Fremont. One copy in stock. Online orders accept returns within 14 days of delivery, buyer ships return; in-store sales are exchange or store credit only. Do a barrel roll. info@keepitclassiclv.com / (702) 605-3332.

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14 days from delivery. Buyer pays return shipping. In-store purchases are exchange or credit only.

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