1080° Snowboarding

1080° Snowboarding is a snowboarding video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 in 1998. 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° Snowboarding
North American cover art
Developer(s)Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Masamichi Abe
Mitsuhiro Takano
Producer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto
Programmer(s)
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

1080° was announced in November 1997 and developed over the course of nine months; it garnered critical acclaim and won an Interactive Achievement Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. 1080° sold over two million units. A sequel, 1080° Avalanche, was released for the GameCube in November 2003. The game was re-released in 2008 and 2016 for the Wii and Wii U Virtual Console respectively, and was re-released on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack in 2023.

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