Trivia
The seemingly normal quote "Do a barrel roll!" spoken by Peppy in this game, has become a huge fad on ytmnd.com with over 100 creations all surrounding it.
Originally, Nintendo intended to make Star Fox sequel for SNES, titled Star Fox 2. This project was almost finished until it was cancelled - SNES was getting very aged at the time. Many of SF2's features and scenarios were recycled into Star Fox 64, however, notably the All-Range Mode and the Star Wolf Team.
Contributed by
WWWWolf (414) on Apr 29, 2005.
By default, the game characters have actual spoken dialogue. However, there is an option to revert to the gibberish dialogue of the original game, which is listed as Lylat, presumably the actual language of the characters. This only affects the spoken dialogue, not the text, which is always in English (or possibly other languages as appropriate)
The first home video game to offer "force feedback" in a home console game, in which the game sent signals to the special "Rumble Pak" accessory attached to the controller, causing the controller to vibrate according to in-game actions.
The giant, black UFO in that one level where you help Bill the Dog's squadron was inspired by the big alien ship in the movie "Independence Day". The game's manual even implies it, stating that Andross stole the technology for the ship from an Alien race. If you don't beat the UFO in time, it blows up the structure in the middle of the planet in the exact same way that the UFOs in "Independence Day" blew up the White House.
The UK PAL edition of the game was originally released in a limited edition large box with a large poster of the Starfox Team and the new N64 Rumble Pak (for which Starfox 64 was the first compatible game).
In the end sequence, there's a point where Fox, Falco, Peppy and, Slippy are running across what appears to be planet Venom. If you look closely, you'll see that Slippy is running very slightly slower than his comrades and by the time the scene fades out, he's lagging quite far behind the others.
Contributed by
Knyght 
(645) on Dec 30, 2003.
The Snes game was changed from Starfox to Starwing for the UK release because of copyright reasons. The N64 game however was renamed Lylat Wars.
