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MTV Sports: Snowboarding for PlayStation 1
In MTV Sports: Snowboarding for PlayStation 1, you ride downhill and alternate turns with jumps, grabs and spins. You decide how much speed to carry towards a ramp and straighten your board in time for landing. Longer jumps leave more room for combinations, but a failed landing wastes a good attempt. The mountains include locations in the United States, New Zealand, Norway and Japan, with different routes and obstacles in the snow.
Training lets you practise the courses and controls. You then collect enough points in Qualifying to unlock the MTV Challenge. That competition combines races with Slopestyle, Half-Pipe and Big Air: sometimes your time matters, sometimes the moves you perform along the way. Characters handle differently and have their own special tricks. In Create-a-Park, you place pieces yourself to build a snow course, letting you arrange jumps and approaches in a different way.
You play alone or with two people simultaneously in Head to Head, each on a separate part of the screen. This requires two controllers, without a Multitap. A standard controller provides digital steering; an analogue controller is also supported. You save progress through Save Game on a memory card, including after a completed run or event. The game keeps one saved game at a time. You save your custom park through the editor.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
MTV Sports: Snowboarding for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of MTV Sports: Snowboarding
Radical Entertainment developed MTV Sports: Snowboarding for THQ, which released it for PlayStation in 1999. The MTV Sports name connected snowboarding with the music channel and its presentation of extreme sports. Characters received their own appearance and riding style, while licensed music accompanied the descents. The game therefore built its identity not around one famous champion, but around a group of boarders, different music choices and the ability to make a park yourself.
THQ described the park editor during the game's presentation as a way to develop a personal style. That idea appears in the placement of ramps and obstacles: you change not just a visual detail, but also the space needed for a jump. The competition also uses different ways to judge performance. A fast route through Mountain X requires different decisions from a Half-Pipe, where height, variety and a clean landing need to earn points.
Snowboarding marked the start of THQ's games under the MTV Sports brand. MTV Sports: Pure Ride followed later, another Radical snowboarding game with a different structure and a new set of courses. The first release clearly separates qualifying from the championship: you prove your trick skills first, then enter the competitions. On the original PlayStation, this shows how one sport could become a race, a points contest and a personal building project.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Cool Boarders 2 for PlayStation 1, like MTV Sports: Snowboarding, centres on descents, jumps and board control. You read the course to approach a bend or ramp properly. MTV adds its own park editor and makes access to the main competition depend on Qualifying. Cool Boarders 2 concentrates on its existing courses and the combination of fast riding and tricks. Both make a good landing important to your result.
Cool Boarders 3 for PlayStation 1, like MTV Sports: Snowboarding, combines races with trick contests. In Cool Boarders 3's Boarder X, each missed gate adds a one-second penalty, and you can hinder opponents with a punch. MTV builds its main competition from Qualifying and alternates Mountain X with Slopestyle, Half-Pipe and Big Air. MTV also lets you place ramps and rails yourself with Create-a-Park, while in Cool Boarders 3 you learn the existing competition courses.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for PlayStation 1, like MTV Sports: Snowboarding, combines tricks with music and short attempts. Tony Hawk structures progression around videotapes: you reach scores, collect S-K-A-T-E and complete tasks in skating areas. MTV first has you gather enough trick points through Qualifying for a championship with different snow events. While a skateboard lets you return to an object within an area, a snowboard attempt mainly follows the slope downhill.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 for PlayStation 1 also combines tricks, licensed music and an editor for custom skating areas. On a skateboard, you can ride back through an area and link combinations over flat ground with manuals. MTV Sports: Snowboarding uses the descent as your direction of travel and makes the slope supply your speed. Both games reward course knowledge, but the snow continually demands a good approach to the next ramp.
Championship Surfer for PlayStation 1 moves board tricks from the snow to the sea. Position, speed and landing also matter there for a high score. MTV Sports: Snowboarding sends you down a mountain past fixed ramps and rails; in Championship Surfer, the wave you ride keeps moving. The surfing game also has a Rumble duel with attack items. MTV keeps its head-to-head contest to split-screen competition between two boarders racing for time or points.
