In Japan, Game Machine listed Alpine Surfer on their Augissue as being the third most-successful dedicated arcade game of the month.
Much like the original Alpine Racer, the player can unlock a hidden character by holding down the Selection button while pressing the Decision button seven times. In Gate Race Mode, the player must race against CPU-controlled opponents and must make it down to the bottom in first place, and again must make it towards the bottom before the timer reaches zero. In Free Riding Mode, the player is freely allowed to snowboard down a mountain while performing air tricks, and must make it down to the bottom before the timer reaches zero. The game features two game modes, "Free Riding Mode" and "Gate Racing Mode", as well as two difficulties, Novice and Expert. The player controls a snowboarder by using a snowboard controller mounted to the base of the cabinet, which the player is meant to stand atop of. The game also allows two cabinets to be linked together, supporting cooperative play, much like their Final Lap and Winning Run series. It runs on Namco System Super 22 hardware, and is based on their Alpine Racer series of snowboarding games. Cars can turn sharply without losing speed or overdrifting, and the AI rivals are sometimes programmed so they are always near the player (rubberband effect).Īrcade flight games also use simplified physics and controls in comparison to flight simulators.Alpine Surfer ( アルパインサーファー, Arupain Sāfā) is an arcade snowboarding video game developed and released by Namco in 1996. These games are usually designed with Flash/Java/DHTML and run directly in web-browsers.Īrcade racing games are those which have a simplified physics engine and do not require much learning time, in opposition to racing simulators. Many independent developers are now producing games in the arcade genre that are designed specifically for use on the Internet. Games on consoles or PCs can be referred to as an "arcade game" if it shares these qualities, or if it's a direct port of an arcade title. This is due to the environment of the Arcade, where the player is essentially renting the game for as long as their in-game avatar can stay alive (or until they run out of tokens). In short, arcade games are popular in places open to the public where people are likely to be waiting on something.Īrcade games often have very short levels, simple and intuitive control schemes, and rapidly increasing difficulty. In addition to restaurants and video arcades, arcade games are also found in bowling alleys, college campuses, dormitories, laundromats, movie theatres, supermarkets, shopping malls, airports, truck stops, bar/pubs, hotels, and even bakeries. The first commercial arcade game was Computer Space, released in November, 1971 by Nutting Associates. Arcade games are coin-operated video game systems, usually placed in public locations.
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