Fall In Love With Snowboarding Games

By Marci Glover


The computer has revolutionized all things in this planet. No one ever knew that one could snowboard or even play soccer on a computer, but through technology and specifically, the invention of the computer, it is now possible to play the games on a PC, and even online. The same enjoyment felt while on real snow is experienced while playing snowboarding games.

A more recent advancement in technology enables people to play the game on their phones and tablets. Since phones and tablets are portable, users are able to play regardless of place and time. They will always carry their snow and boards in their pockets wherever they go, and time will not be a limiting factor to them since they do not need all the paraphernalia usually used in real snowboarding.

These games usually have peak and off peak seasons. They are normally found in abundance at some points in a year, but completely disappear later in the same year. Precisely, so many of them will be available from October to March before disappearing for a whole year. The late 1990s and the beginning of 2000s saw many of them flood the field of computer games. Before this period, very few could be found.

At the moment, there are many sub-genres of the genre snowboard games, all of which integrating real snowboarding skills into their operations. Among the best in this field are; SSX, SSX Tricky, SSX 3, 1080 Snowboarding, Cool Boarders, Amped 2, 1080 Avalanche, SSX on Tour, Cool Boarders 3 and Amped 3. These have been rated as top ten in this genre.

It has become a common trend for producers to come up with series of games based on the same ideas. An example is Cool Boarders. This is a series of games where one game develops on the ideas introduced by the preceding one. The first in this series was released in Japan in the month of August 1996, and arrived in Europe in January the year that followed. This first one paved way for Cool Boarders 2, 3, 4 and 2001.

They are usually called arcade games whenever they are used in restaurants, amusement arcades, bars and other public businesses for the sake of entertaining customers. During the early stages, they used to be operated by coins by players in these places. Instead of a joystick, they normally use a physical snowboard, and the player can make all his moves on it. In the 18th century, most of these plays were 2D, but later moved to 3D in 21st century.

The dark side is the attachment the players develop towards playing. It has been discovered that people who play it always do not want to be away from their PCs, and all they do on their computers is snowboard. They may go to the extent of neglecting their jobs and studies just to play on their computers.

A study was done to compare the number of adults who engage in playing to that of children, and at the end of the study, it was evident that more children than adults get involved in this activity. Reasons for this status are obvious; adults have so much to do such that playing is not a priority to them. In addition to this, adults consider playing games as being something for the kids.




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