1080° Snowboarding

1998 snowboard racing video game

1080° Snowboarding is a video game about snowboarding. It was made in 1998 by Nintendo EAD for the Nintendo 64. It was made again in 2008 for the Virtual Console. The person playing the game has to make a snowboarder jump and do tricks.

1080° Snowboarding
Developer(s)Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Masamichi Abe
Mitsuhiro Takano
Producer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto
Programmer(s)Giles Goddard
Colin Reed
Artist(s)Yoshitaka Nishikawa
Composer(s)Kenta Nagata
Platform(s)Nintendo 64
Release
  • JP: 28 February 1998
  • NA: 1 April 1998
  • PAL: 9 October 1998
Genre(s)Snowboarding
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Nintendo told people about the game in November 1997.[1] It took 9 months to make the game. It got an award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.[2] The game got a sequel named 1080° Avalanche. It was made in 2003 for the Nintendo GameCube.[3]

References change

  1. IGN staff (21 November 1997). "Head for the Slopes". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 15 September 2007. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  2. "Console Sports Game of the Year". Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  3. O'Neill, Jamie (October 20, 2009). "1080° Avalanche Review (GCN)". Nintendo Life. Retrieved June 14, 2019.