[game 112]
720°
Sports
NES
Atari (1989)
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Everything probably should have been rotated 45 degrees, am I right?
There were two types of skateboarders in the late 80's/early 90's. Skaters and poseurs. The latter got their set up from K-Mart as a gift from grandma for their tenth birthday. The former went to the skate shop and paid with their own lawn mowing money to get to join the elite society. Having been in both those categories and also having played this game, I can tell you that 720 Degrees is the poseur K-Mart skateboard of the NES skate games. It does skateboarding but it does it wrong.
The developers definitely got some of the difficulty and frustration of skateboarding right, but I don't know if that is on purpose. Trying to do "tricks" in the main map is, at best, annoying. The ramp competition remains a mystery after my recent modern-day play session (maybe the instruction booklet helps?). I'm not sure why buying the safety gear is important and am also not sure why you have to skate all over town to these contests looking like a nerd while all the bodybuilders in town try to knock you down. Of course, if you don't make it to the contest in time, a swarm of bees will kill you. Which is probably the part of the game that is most like skating in the 80's, I guess.
If you want to play an NES skateboarding game, Skate or Die is the one. Don't be a poseur.
There were two types of skateboarders in the late 80's/early 90's. Skaters and poseurs. The latter got their set up from K-Mart as a gift from grandma for their tenth birthday. The former went to the skate shop and paid with their own lawn mowing money to get to join the elite society. Having been in both those categories and also having played this game, I can tell you that 720 Degrees is the poseur K-Mart skateboard of the NES skate games. It does skateboarding but it does it wrong.
The developers definitely got some of the difficulty and frustration of skateboarding right, but I don't know if that is on purpose. Trying to do "tricks" in the main map is, at best, annoying. The ramp competition remains a mystery after my recent modern-day play session (maybe the instruction booklet helps?). I'm not sure why buying the safety gear is important and am also not sure why you have to skate all over town to these contests looking like a nerd while all the bodybuilders in town try to knock you down. Of course, if you don't make it to the contest in time, a swarm of bees will kill you. Which is probably the part of the game that is most like skating in the 80's, I guess.
If you want to play an NES skateboarding game, Skate or Die is the one. Don't be a poseur.