{"id":104472,"date":"2019-11-26T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/glorious_scans_of_a_forgotten_1992_f-zero_novel_have_surfaced_online"},"modified":"2019-11-26T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:15:00","slug":"glorious-scans-of-a-forgotten-1992-f-zero-novel-have-surfaced-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/glorious-scans-of-a-forgotten-1992-f-zero-novel-have-surfaced-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Glorious Scans Of A Forgotten 1992 F-Zero Novel Have Surfaced Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0ded1922b990a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0ded1922b990a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Fzero1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0ded1922b990a\/fzero1.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0ded1922b990a\/fzero1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Fzero1\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve missed <strong>F-Zero<\/strong> as much as we have for the last 15 years-or-so, then <em>wow<\/em> do we have a great find for you today.<\/p>\n<p>The images you see before you are reportedly from an F-Zero novel which was released back in February 1992. They were shared online by Twitter user <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/step70s\/status\/1100870574937726978?s=20\">@step70s<\/a> earlier this year (you&#8217;ll have to forgive us for not spotting them sooner), where more details surrounding its release have also been shared.<\/p>\n<p>Step says that the novel, the title of which roughly translates to &#8216;F-Zero: And then, to the gods of speed&#8217;, was part of the Futabasha Fantasy Novel Series released in the &#8217;90s. We did a little more digging and stumbled across an <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.retromags.com\/gallery\/image\/29213-futabasha-fantasy-novel-series-wizardry-the-legend-of-zelda-the-tower-of-druaga-f-zero-japan\/\">advertisement<\/a> for the novel, alongside a tease for a <strong>Legend of Zelda<\/strong> release. <em>How have we not seen these before?<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Fzero3\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa5b7e69b8cd8\/fzero3.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa5b7e69b8cd8\/fzero3.original.jpg\" alt=\"Fzero3\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Fzero1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/730a022499df6\/fzero1.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/730a022499df6\/fzero1.original.jpg\" alt=\"Fzero1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Fzero2\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e9cec2660902a\/fzero2.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e9cec2660902a\/fzero2.original.jpg\" alt=\"Fzero2\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The F-Zero novel was written by Katsuyuki Ozaki with illustrations by Kagami Yasuhiro (you can actually see Yasuhiro&#8217;s portfolio <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.odn.ne.jp\/~hau75760\/homepage\/top.html\">here<\/a>). @step70s notes that Ozaki&#8217;s take on the F-Zero franchise &#8220;puts aside the brighter comic book-inspired world for a darker dystopian one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><\/aside>\n<p>Filled with excitement, the Nintendo Life team has been trying to hunt down a copy online since the first moment our eyes met these glorious pages, but we&#8217;ve had no luck. If you know anything else about the novel, or perhaps if you even own one yourself, feel free to tell us all about it in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve missed F-Zero as much as we have for the last 15 years-or-so, then wow do we have a great find for you today. The images you see before you are reportedly from an F-Zero novel which was released back in February 1992. They were shared online by Twitter user @step70s earlier this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}