F-Zero has several tie-ins with the Star Fox series. The character James McCloud shares the name of Fox's father from Star Fox, and the characters have many other similarities:
• They wear the same outfit.
• Both drive drive ships powered by G-Diffusers that were designed by a company named "Space Dynamics".
• F-Zero's James McCloud also is the squadron leader of a space combat team known as "Galaxy Dogs", a clear parody of Star Fox, and his partner, a man named O'Donnell, is a likely reference to Star Fox's Wolf O'Donnell.
• In F-Zero X, James McCloud even states the he "drives like a sly fox", furthering the connection.