Steep Slope Sliders

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Steep Slope Sliders
Developer(s) Cave
Publisher(s) Sega
Platform(s) Saturn
Release date 1998
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer

Steep Slope Sliders is a console game made for the Sega Saturn, published in 1998. It was developed by a collaboration of Victor Interactive Software Inc, and the Cave Company. It was published by Sega. This game was a port from the Sega Titan ST-V arcade system. While UEP Systems' Cool Boarders system of executing moves is extremely regimented by a combo interface, Steep Slope Slider's allows the player far more autonomy. Instead of actually holding in a direction while jumping (similar to the system that the SSX snowboarding series now uses), everything was based on the face buttons that were pressed, but the method of performing tricks was completely based on the Jamma configuration that was used in the arcades. Many other Sega arcade ports were like this as well, most notably Winter Heat and Decathlete.

There are four different riders, seven different tracks, and twelve audio tracks available to begin with. Players were able to unlock up to 11 extra boarders (including an Alien, UFO and Penguin), plus some hidden tracks. For its time, Steep Slope Sliders had impressive graphics and fast game play.


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