Super Smash Bros Melee was my first exposure to the star fox series,and out of all the franchises featured in that game, star fox was the one i was most interested in giving a shot. Unfortunately I never saw adventures or assault in stores when I was a kid. Then brawl came out and that was my first time playing Star Fox 64, the 3 minute demo the game had. Not too long after I got Star Fox Assault on amazon [first post childhood gamecube game] and I ended up loving it, despite how painfully short it was. Then I got Star Fox 64 on the virtual console and I adored that one. Assault was a great game but 64 just nailed the gameplay. I always use 64 and Assault as an example as to why I prefer gameplay over story. Some years later I would then buy Adventures, and it was a solid game in my opinion, I definitely enjoyed it more than most people it seems. Actually I recall seeing trailers on Adventures on this touch screen type of device as a kid at La Curacao, but like I mentioned I never did find the game in person. When I got my 3ds, Star Fox 64 3d was among the first few games I needed to get. And then apart from emulating the Star Fox 2 rom in high school, that's it. Haven't played the SNES version, Command, or Zero, mostly b/c I never owned any of the systems they were on.
I hate that this series never got the attention it needed, and that Fox McCloud has become more synonymous w/ smash bros than his actual series [a fate that befell captain falcon ;-;], hopefully we'll get more installments that actually pushes the series forward like assault rather than continue living in the shadow of 64 or the original