To address that, Command was deficient in almost all of these areas as well. I liked the strategic idea on paper, and the fights were fun enough if you got over that damned timer, but that was about it.

And clearly characters at least are of some significance in that series, as they went out of their way to make them, as opposed to say, Mario Bros, where they never established anyone's characters

My mistake.  I thought Nintendo had made one in between the Namco/Q-Games one.  Seems I remembered incorrectly.

And not only is your decription accurate, but even Miyamoto has come out and said he didn't like how the series was handled after SF64.  If anything, the fact that this game is being remade might be a sign of a 'revival' of the series by Nintendo Internal.

I remember reading about a Starfox arcade game (and a Mario Kart Arcade game, too--I even remember the screen shots!) a long time ago.  I guess they never got made.  Maybe that's what you were thinkig of?

The Mario Kart one does exist, Mario Kart Arcade GP. Perhaps the same people were making a Starfox one, but it never came to fruition if it did.

Meh. Starfox is good but Starfox 64 is better!

And the Land/Underwater stages are awsome!

They were going to make Arcade cabinets for Star Fox Assault, like F-Zero GX and Mario Kart GC got them.  But they dropped it since they felt there would be no way to tie in the GameCube data to the cabinets (F-Zero and Mario Kart had exclusive content when you used a GC memeory card).

I'm sure this has been noted, but for the sake of argument:

StarFox64 essentially was a remake of StarFox.

I have a bright idea. Instead of a remake, how about they just make a good and new StarFox game? I know, mind blowing.

Either that or make StarFox 2 cuz that game was in the works and was supposed to come out on SNES but never came out.