Big Blue
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Big Blue (ビッグブルー, Big Blue[?]) is a fictional planet where 99% of the surface is covered by water.[1] Its circuits are built over and/or through its vast ocean. While appearing less frequently in the games than Mute City, it is still arguably the second most well-known F-Zero location, due it its inclusion in the Super Smash Bros games, and its easily distinguishable theme music. In F-Zero X, the Big Blue courses are held on planet Odyapes, which is also a watery planet.
In most F-Zero games, it has the appearance of a wide, open sea, with numerous rocks sticking out of the water, and very few buildings. In F-Zero GX, however, Big Blue underwent a significant change in appearance, and looked much more industrial than in the other games, with buildings, hotels, underwater tunnels, etc. found all over the circuits. The planet was strictly protected by the nature conservation group over a long time, but it was rumored that a new energy source lay deep down in the seabed; investigation started right away, although no discoveries have yet been found.[2]
Appearance in the F-Zero games
F-Zero
Big Blue first appears as the second course of the original F-Zero.
Tracks
Racing on Big Blue with Wild Goose.
BS F-Zero
In BS F-Zero Grand Prix and BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2, features Big Blue II.
Tracks
Big Blue II BS F-Zero Grand Prix
Big Blue II BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2
F-Zero X
In F-Zero X, most of Cylinder's length runs on a large, winding tube, whose entire surface can be raced, including upside down - however, steering too sharply may send a racer off the track. Quick Turn is very hard with straightaways without guard rails and sharp high-speed corners. Big Blue 3 (exclusive to the Expansion Kit) is designed to look like Japan.
Cylinder
Quick Turn
F-Zero GX
In F-Zero GX, Drift Highway is the first race in the Sapphire cup. It is a relatively easy course. Ordeal is the hardest non-unlockable course in the game.
Drift Highway
Ordeal
Drift Highway screenshot
F-Zero: GP Legend
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In F-Zero: GP Legend there are four Big Blue tracks: Slip Highway, Slip Highway II, Big Blue and Calm Sea.
F-Zero: Climax
F-Zero 99
Appearance in other games
Super Smash Bros. series
Big Blue appears in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a fighting stage. It also appears as F-Zero Grand Prix during Melee's Adventure Mode.
Mario Kart 8
In Mario Kart 8, there is DLC for a track inspired by Big Blue, complete with references to F-Zero X mainly.
Trivia
- In Super Smash Bros. Melee the alternate theme of this stage is a remix of the Mach Rider Theme for the NES.
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| Dutch | Big Blue | - |
| French | Big Blue | - |
| German | Big Blue | - |
| Italian | Big Blue | - |
| Korean | 빅 블루 big beullu |
Big Blue |
| Russian | Синеморь Sinemor' |
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| Spanish (NOA) | Gran Azul | Big Blue |
| Spanish (NOE) | Big Blue | - |
References
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| v F-Zero | |
|---|---|
| Pilots | Captain Falcon • Dr. Stewart • Pico • Samurai Goroh |
| Machines | Blue Falcon • Fire Stingray • Golden Fox • Wild Goose |
| Planets | Big Blue • Death Wind • Fire Field • Mute City • Port Town • Red Canyon • Sand Ocean • Silence • White Land |
| Tracks | Mute City I • Big Blue • Sand Ocean • Death Wind I • Silence |
| Mute City II • Port Town I • Red Canyon I • White Land I • White Land II | |
| Mute City III • Death Wind II • Port Town II • Red Canyon II • Fire Field | |
| Track Features | Anti-Gravity Guide Beam • Dash Zone • Jump Plate • Magnetic Field Block Coat • Mine • Pull Magnet • Pit • Rough |
| Mechanics | Boost • Drift • Energy • Rocket Start • Short Cut Foul |
| Modes | Grand Prix • Practice • Records |
| Other | Album • F-Zero: The Story of Captain Falcon • Mr. Zero • Official Recorder |
| v BS F-Zero Grand Prix / BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 | |
|---|---|
| Machines | Blue Thunder • Fire Scorpion • Green Amazone • Luna Bomber |
| Venues | Big Blue • Death Wind • Fire Field • Forest • Metal Fort • Mute City • Port Town • Red Canyon • Sand Ocean • Sand Storm • Silence • White Land |
| Track Features | Anti-Gravity Guide Beam • Dash Zone • Jump Plate • Magnetic Field Block Coat • Mine • Pit • Pull Magnet • Rough |
| Mechanics | Boost • Drift • Energy • Rocket Start • Short Cut Foul |
| Modes | Free Practice • Grand Prix • Records |
| Others | Official Recorder |
| v Worlds | |
|---|---|
| Aeropolis • Ancient Mesa • Beacon Port • Bianca City • Big Blue • Big Foot • Big Hand • Casino Palace • Cloud Carpet • Cosmo Terminal • Crater Land • Death Wind • Devil's Forest • Empyrean Colony • Fire Field • Forest • Green Plant • Illusion • Lightning • Metal Fort • Mist Flow • Mute City • Outer Space • Phantom Road • Port Town • Rainbow Road • Red Canyon • Sand Ocean • Sector • Silence • Space Plant • Stark Farm • Synobazz • Tenth Zone East • White Land | |
- ↑ (1991-08-13) in Nintendo EAD: F-Zero instruction manual (in English). Nintendo, pp. 18.
- ↑ Planet & Course (Japanese). Sega / Nintendo. Retrieved on 2007-08-12. “(Translation) It was protected strictly by a nature conservation group, over long time, but from the fact that existence of the new energy resource was rumored to the seabed, investigation started simultaneously. But, it was not so far many times and the submarine prospecting by the diving probe was done, but you have encountered to the accident of all cause obscurities,….”
