1080° Snowboarding (Nintendo 64, 1998)

Intro 1080 Snowboarding was possibly the coolest (both literally and figuratively speaking) game on the market when it was released back in early 1998. Whereas most first party Nintendo games at the time featured cute, cuddly characters running around in story book environments, 1080 was a surprisingly realistic snowboarder with loads of challenge, realism and (dare I say it) style. The game was both a critical and commercial success and, despite spawning an inferior sequel five years later, still remains the granddaddy of modern snowboarding games (even the exceptional SSX franchise owing a..

1080 Snowboarding was one of the first games out on the N64, and was the first Snowboarding game. This is an awesome game. It has everything it needs great graphics, nice sound, awesome gameplay, and a tight challenge. The multiplayer mode is a bit sketchy but the one player mode more than makes up for it. In this game you have your 5 main Snowboarders, along with a few hidden characters. They each have their own abilities in speed, jumping, and landing..etc. You can either practise for a while in the practise course or go straight into the game with the tournament mode. Graphics The graphics.

Games like the " Cool Boarders " series on Playstation started out the snow boarding trend, Nintendo just came along and perfected it with " 1080 Snowboarding ". 1080 would have to be the first top quality title of the snow boarding genre, with a bit of time and effort Nintendo showed that these type of games can be fun. Choose one of five riders each with there own strength and weak points, pick a board to use and hit the slopes of 6 different tracks and game modes. The tracks themselves are all interesting each consisting of stunning looking backgrounds, different types of jumps some big...

While all the other screw up snowboarding games that are on the N64; Twisted Edge Snowboarding, Snowboard Kids, and Snowboard Kids 2, 1080 shines brighter than all of them combined. Although Snow Kids is more geared towards a comedy type of snowboarding, it just isn t the same as a realistic sim. Game Play With the life-like reflexes and snowboarding tricks, this game is a good simulation to the real thing. For example, you have a life meter, and whenever you run into something or crash, one or two of these will be taken away. Once they re all gone, you re considered dead. You have different..