StarTropics
StarTropics is a 1990 action-adventure video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Unlike most of Nintendo's games, it was never released or intended to be released in Japan. It was released only in North America and Europe. It was produced, written and directed by Genyo Takeda of Nintendo Integrated Research & Development (who also developed the Punch-Out!! series). StarTropics was followed by a sequel titled Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II, released in 1994.
| StarTropics | |
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North American NES box art | |
| Developer(s) | Nintendo R&D3 Locomotive Corporation |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Genyo Takeda |
| Designer(s) | Makoto Wada |
| Programmer(s) | Masato Hatakeyama |
| Composer(s) | Yoshio Hirai |
| Series | StarTropics |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo Entertainment System |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
StarTropics was released on the Wii Virtual Console on January 7, 2008, in North America and on January 11, 2008, in the PAL regions; it was released via the Wii U Virtual Console in Europe on September 3, 2015, in Australia on September 4, 2015, and in North America on May 26, 2016. On November 11, 2016, the game (alongside 29 other games) was included in the NES Classic Edition / Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System released by Nintendo. On March 13, 2019, the game (alongside Kid Icarus) was added to Nintendo's Nintendo Switch Online service for the Nintendo Switch.