Alpine Racer

Alpine Racer

Screenshot of Alpine Racer
Developer(s) Namco
Publisher(s) Namco
Platform(s) Arcade game
Release date(s)

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Genre(s) Sports game
Mode(s) Single-player
Arcade system Namco System 22 hardware
CPU 68EC020, TMS32025, M37710
Sound Sound Chips : C352
Display Horizontal, Raster, 640 x 480 pixels, 32768 colors

Alpine Racer is a 3D Alpine skiing arcade game released by Namco in 1994. It features downhill and gate with three courses and two play modes - Race and Time Attack. The player stands on a set of ski-like foot stands while holding onto two bars for stability to play.

Series

Namco also released a PlayStation 2 version of Alpine Racer 3 in 2002. In 2009 Namco Bandai released a remake for iPhone and iPod Touch.

In 2009, the game was ported to the Zeebo.

Reception

A critic for Next Generation praised the texture-mapped graphics with their numerous details and most especially the unique and realistic method of control, and scored the game five out of five stars, due to "its atypical approach and its success in execution".[1]

Alpine Racer won the award for Best New Equipment at the 1995 Amusement and Music Operators Association Expo.[2]

References

  1. "Hot Dog!". Next Generation. Imagine Media (10): 131. October 1995.
  2. "US Arcades Get Ready for War". Next Generation. Imagine Media (12): 24. December 1995.

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