It’s also a sequel to WiiWare game FAST Racing League, although in practise the difference between tribute, sequel, and remake is trivial. That’s the environment into which FAST Racing NEO has been released, a game that is less a shameless clone of F-Zero GX and more of a giddy tribute. Nintendo has included significant homages to F-Zero in games such as Nintendo Land and the DLC of Mario Kart 8, but it increasingly feels as if this is instead of a new game rather than as a prelude to one. It went on to inspire WipEout, but in recent years neither franchise has been able to find much mainstream success. Runner in arcades, Nintendo’s game was the first to do real justice to the concept. Although there were future racers before F-Zero on the SNES, such as Powerdrome on the Amiga and S.T.U.N.
