Most people know Captain Falcon from the Super Smash Bros series. Very few people know him from his series of origin, F-Zero. And everyone knows him as a fighter, but those who really know him know him for his true occupation - the greatest racer in the entire galaxy.

Captain Falcon didn't actually appear in the first F-Zero game, but he was in the comic that came with it. In the second installment in the series, F-Zero X on Nintendo 64, Captain Falcon appeared as a playable racer. In 1999, Falcon left the cockpit for the first time and fought as an unlockable character in Super Smash Bros. This was when most people got to know him. He was absent from GBA's 2001 game, F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, but one of the racers in the said game, Kent Aketchi, claimed to be his son. Also in 2001, Super Smash Bros. Melee was released on Game Cube, which featured Captain Falcon as a starting character this time. In 2003, Game Cube's F-Zero GX found Captain Falcon in a Story Mode-type game for the first time, and it was not your typical racing game Story Mode at all. In 2004, F-Zero got it's own TV series, and of course, Captain Falcon was in it. F-Zero: GP Legend, a GBA game based off of the TV series, featured many story modes, each based on a different character. Needless to say, Captain Falcon had one of them.

Captain Falcon may never get the respect he deserves. Racing and driving games wouldn't be what they are today without 4 specific characters. Tanner is the first. Mario is the second. Diddy Kong is the third. And Captain Falcon is the fourth.

"Falcooooooonnnnnnnnn PUNCH!" -Captain Falcon