Starshot: Space Circus Fever

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Starshot: Space Circus Fever

Developer(s)	Infogrames
Publisher(s)	Infogrames
Platform(s)	Nintendo 64, PC
Release date	December 04, 1998 June 24, 1999
Genre(s)	Platformer
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone (E)
Input methods	Standard controller

Starshot: Space Circus Fever is a platform game for the Nintendo 64 and for PC. It was released by Infogrames in 1998 in Europe and 1999 in North America.

Starcash was looking for the perfect headliner for his Space Circus. After all, the usual robots were fine at first, but the business couldn't afford to simply pull out act after act without any surprises. Starshot was going to be his ticket out of bankruptcy, the attraction that no one would be able to resist.

You see, Starshot was originally supposed to be a weapon trained to follow orders and attack without question. That's what Killer Expo did. The planet raised robots as loyal soldiers to fight whatever was deemed a threat to the status quo. Yet something was wrong with Starshot -- he contracted a virus that made him useless to the military; he developed something called a conscience.

What was Killer Expo's loss was now Starcash's gain. Starshot would display his skills for all the world to see along with his two little friends named Willfall and Willfly. Starcash hoped people would stop paying to see the modern and cruel Virtua Circus led by Wolfgang Von Ravel. It seems the boss has been stealing such landmarks as the Milky Way, Big Dipper, and the rings of Saturn, without any regard for the preservation of space. To add insult to injury, the man was charging admission for it!

After hearing about this, Starshot agreed to embark on a mission to wipe out the Virtua Circus and stop Wolfgang Von Ravel's dastardly plan to steal the galaxy to use as his main attraction. To succeed, the robot will have to travel to seven planets, meeting over 300 different characters, until his final confrontation with Von Ravel himself. The planets include tropical Tensuns, the jungle-like Primitron, militaristic Killer Expo, mechanical Technomum, junkyard Ultimacrash, the ruins of Earth, and the evil Virtua Circus.