StarTropics
1990 · Action-Adventure · NES
Overview
StarTropics (1990) is Genyo Takeda's Western-only NES adventure, in which Mike Jones fights with a yo-yo — and a real letter in the box had to be dipped in water to progress.
Deep Dive
Mike Jones explores from a top-down view, fighting with a yo-yo. At one point the player must dip the physical letter packed with the game in water to reveal a code. Critics compared it to The Legend of Zelda.
Developer Story
Takeda produced, wrote and directed it at Nintendo R&D3 with Locomotive. It came out in North America in December 1990 and in Europe in 1992. IGN ranked it 35th among the best NES games.
Did You Know?
- It was never released in Japan.
- Its sequel was Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (1994).
Sources & further reading
- StarTropics — Wikipedia
