1080° Snowboarding
is a 1998
snowboarding video game
developed by
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
and published by
Nintendo
. It was released for the
Nintendo 64
and re-released in 2008 for the
Wii
's
Virtual Console
. In the game, the player controls one of five snowboarders from a
third-person perspective
, using a combination of buttons to snowboard past flags, jump and perform tricks over eight
levels
. The objective is either to arrive quickly at a level's finish line or to receive maximum points for grabbing or spinning the board in trick combinations.
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
. It sold over two million units, and a second installment,
1080° Avalanche
, was released for the
Nintendo GameCube
in November 2003. (
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