Indie Dev Releases Bloody Homage to Classic 90’s Snowboarding Game Cool Boarders
Staff, 2022-12-26 22:16:00,
One independent developer releases a throwback to PS1 classic snowboarding game Cool Boarders, but with a gory twist.
One ambitious independent developer has just released a throwback to classic 90s PlayStation snowboarding game Cool Boarders, but with a twist. Sony’s original PlayStation is known for a ton of classic games. Several iconic fighting games, RPGs, and shooters all made debuts on the little gray box. The console was also the first home of not only several sport franchises, but also extreme sport franchises.
One of these classics is Cool Boarders, which first saw release back in 1996. The game has players take on the role of a snowboarder racing against AI opponents down several different mountains. In addition to the race itself, boarders can do sick tricks and even grind on certain objects years before Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater made that a skateboarding video game staple.
Unfortunately, the Cool Boarders franchise has ironically been on ice since the turn of the millennium with Cool Boarders 2001 on the now decades-old PlayStation 2. Indie developer Nathan Gabriel took it on themselves to not only make a game celebrating the franchise, but add one very fun new feature to it: Blood. And lots of it.
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