Top Skater is an arcade developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd., released 1 May 1997 on Arcade.
What Top Skater is
Top Skater is an arcade game developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and released in 1997. It is available on Arcade only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Top Skater is an arcade game released by Sega in 1997, and built on the Sega Model 2 hardware. It was one of the first arcade games to feature a skateboard controller interface. In Top Skater, players stand on a skateboard-like platform which swung side-to-side or tilted, manipulating the actions of the avatars in the game. Similar games were made for skiing, snowboarding and other sports of this nature. The game consisted of various ramps, rails and other skating objects from which the player could do tricks to gain points. The main sponsor of the game was Coca-Cola. The soundtrack of the game consisted entirely of these songs by the punk rock band Pennywise. The game's style is like that…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Top Skater launched on 1 May 1997, within three weeks of Star Fox 64, Shadow Warrior, Jonah Lomu Rugby and Descent Maximum.
Released around the same time: Star Fox 64, Shadow Warrior, Jonah Lomu Rugby, Descent Maximum.
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When did Top Skater come out?
Top Skater was released on 1 May 1997 for Arcade.
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