Snowboarding video game

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Snowboarding games are a subgenre of sports video games that simulate the sports of snowboarding and sandboarding. Most snowboarding games are seasonal and come out sometime between October and March. The genre peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many online casual games have been made for the genre recently. Likewise, several games have been made for iOS and Android mobile devices.[1][2]

Arcade snowboarding games have a physical snowboard on which the player can step and use instead of a joystick or gamepad.

Popular snowboarding game franchises include Cool Boarders by Sony Computer Entertainment, 1080° Snowboarding by Nintendo, and SSX by EA Sports.

History[]

Namco's Alpine Racer (1994) was a skiing winter sports simulator that became a major success in arcades during the mid-1990s. This led to a wave of similar sports games capitalizing on its success during the late 1990s, from companies such as Sega, Namco, Konami and Innovative Concepts.[3]

In 1996, two snowboarding video games were released: Namco's Alpine Surfer in the arcades,[4] and the UEP Systems game Cool Boarders for the PlayStation console.[5] The following year, Square's popular role-playing video game, Final Fantasy VII, included a snowboarding minigame that was later released as an independent snowboarding game, Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding, for mobile phones.[6] In 2000, SSX was released by EA Sports. Based around boardercross, the game featured fast downhill races, avoiding various objects whilst using others to perform jumps and increase the player's speed.[7]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Aspden, Lucy (June 15, 2016). "The 12 best ski and snowboard video games of all time" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  2. ^ "10 Best Snowboarding Games Of All Time". TheGamer. July 8, 2019.
  3. ^ Webb, Marcus (December 17, 1996). "Arcadia: "Me Too" Syndrome" (PDF). Next Generation. No. 25 (January 1997). p. 24.
  4. ^ Alpine Surfer at the Killer List of Videogames
  5. ^ "Cool Boarders - IGN.com". Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  6. ^ Buchanan, Levi (March 10, 2005). "Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding". IGN. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2008.
  7. ^ Zdyrko, David (October 23, 2000). "SSX Review". IGN. Archived from the original on December 7, 2008. Retrieved May 10, 2009.
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