For those of you following these daily posts as they come in you surely HAD to expect SSX to make the list, right?
For a good decade or so we used to live in an age were Snowboard games were a common sight.
The original PlayStation had it’s “Cool Boarders” series. Nintendo had “1080 Snowboarding” both on Nintendo 64 and GameCube, and the XBOX had “Amped”. Plus like with any popular game genre you had your fair share of ‘poor mans…’ attempts at some snowboard gaming recognition.
It wasn’t until “SSX” (for PlayStation 2) and it’s multi-platform (style over new substance) sequel “SSX Tricky” came along that the gaming world as a whole seemed to all agree it was favourable, similar to how the world as a whole fell in love with the Tony Hawks series a few years prior to this.
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