1080° Snowboarding is a 1998 snowboarding video game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo. It was released for the Nintendo 64 and re-released in 2008 for the Wii’s Virtual Console. In the game, the player controls one of five snowboarders from a third-person perspective, using a combination of buttons to jump and perform tricks over eight levels. 1080° sold over two million units and won an Interactive Achievement Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
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1080° Snowboarding is a 1998 snowboarding video game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo. It was released for the Nintendo 64 and re-released in 2008 for the Wii’s Virtual Console. In the game, the player controls one of five snowboarders from a third-person perspective, using a combination of buttons to jump and perform tricks over eight levels. The game features 24 tricks and 5 secret tricks, all of which are performed by using a combinations of circular positions of the control stick, the R button, the Z button and the B button. 1080° sold over two million units and won an Interactive Achievement Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. A second installment, 1080° Avalanche, was released in November 2003 for the GameCube and the Nintendo 3DS. The player controls a snowboarder in one of several modes, including trick attack and contest mode, race mode, and options mode.
The objective of the game is either to arrive quickly at a level’s finish line or to receive maximum points for trick combinations. The two types of tricks are grab tricks, in which the board is grabbed in a specific way, or spin tricks, which require nine actions to perform. The soundtrack of 1080° was composed with rappy beats and vocals by Kenta Nagata, who also composed the soundtracks for Mario Kart 64 and other Nintendo games. It received favorable reviews according to review aggregators according to 1080°’s release on April 28, 1998 in Japan and April 28 February 1998 in North America. It sold over a million copies and was a huge commercial success. It is one of the few Nintendo 64 games to be released in 1998, along with Big Mountain 2000 and Snowboard Kids. It has been released in Japan, the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Europe. It also appeared in Europe and the PAL region in November 1998.
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