The Xtreme List
I'm not able to stream regularly through the end of May and I need something to do when I actually can stream, so I'm going to try playing lots of extreme sports games!
For the purpose of this Challenge/Project/Whatever, I'm mostly only interested in games about getting points and completing objectives, not racing games. I'll still play some extreme racing games though, if I want to.
Since I've already played them all on gamecube and xbox, this list will be mostly PS1 & PS2 games, but any old-ish platform is okay as long as I can emulate it. After each game, I'll just select the next one randomly.
By the way, the list is super incomplete and can/will be added to. Feel free to suggest something to add if it looks interesting!
Games
| Platform | Game | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS2 | Tony Hawk's Proving Ground | Skateboarding | The sixth gen version |
| PS1 | Surf Riders | Surfing | |
| PS2 | Cool Boarders: Code Alien | Snowboarding | I hope this game has Aliens |
| NDS | Tony Hawk's American Sk8land | Skateboarding | |
| SAT | Steep Slope Sliders | Snowboarding | The prequel to Trick'n Snowboarder |
| DC | Extreme Sports | Multiple | Bungee jumping, sky surfing, hang gliding, snowboarding, atv, mountain biking... |
| GBA | Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer | Surfing | |
| PS1 | Rocket Power: Team Rocket Rescue | Multiple | |
| PC | Shaun White Snowboarding | Snowboarding | PS2 version did not emulate well... |
| GBA | Jet Grind Radio | Rollerblading |
Finished Games
| Platform | Game | Genre | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS2 | The Simpsons Skateboarding | Skateboarding | Impossible to turn even with max turn stat (why is there a turn stat) and the herding missions were an insane idea. The final boss is literally beaver bother from DK64... |
| PS1 | Street Sk8er | Skateboarding | Looks great, gameplay doesn't allow you to be creative like THPS but it's still fun. They did a good job considering tony didn't exist yet. Needs more than just 3 stages |
| N64 | Big Mountain 2000 | Skiing/Snowboarding | Stats matter a lot, which is weird but when you unlock the new gear and are suddenly going twice as fast it's pretty fun |
| GBA | Razor Freestyle Scooter | Scooter | Getting all the wheels kind of sucks a lot because you can't tell where there are in space and they have weird hitboxes |
| PS1 | Trick'n Snowboarder | Snowboarding | Great presentation, really top tier ps1 aesthetic stuff. Gameplay is serviceable but it's kind of short and doesn't ask much of you |
| PS1 | Street Sk8er 2 | Skateboarding | Improves pretty much everything about the first game, actually nice job by the devs. Kinda miss the bright anime aesthetic tho |
| PS1 | Thrasher Presents: Skate and Destroy | Skateboarding | The escape from the cops idea is pretty fun and the soundtrack is great but the controls are awful and somehow expert mode just makes them even worse |
| PS2 | Free Running | Freerunning | Quit when it asked for 50 gold medals to fight the final boss. Sorry Sebastien, I have let you down. Way too fiddly and broken to be fun but I guess if they fixed it the game isn't irredeemably terrible or anything. Weird scoring system. |
| N64 | Air Boarder 64 | Hoverboard | Was a little disappointed when I found out you don't actually have to get all the rings, and the score doesn't ever get harder. Great N64 vibes and cool stages, liked the character bios in the manual and the announcer guy |
| PS2 | Sky Surfer | Skydiving? | What little gameplay this has is basically just "worst mario party minigame ever" and "worst pilotwings 64 ever". The balloon fan mode is tolerable. I was unable to land |
| PS2 | Mountain Bike Adrenaline | Mountain Bike | Every time you collide with something you get stuck on it. The arcade missions about scoring and doing tricks were the bad part of the game, the fun part was just traversing the level and doing the rings and precision courses. Usually it'd be the other way around |
| PS1 | MTV Sports: T.J. Lavin's Ultimate BMX | BMX | Another one of those games that's pretty good until you get to the harder objectives, then you really start to run up against the controls being really bad. The score multiplier mechanics led to some weird strats too, kinda Free Running-ish |
| PS2 | Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder | Snowboarding | Scoring is fun but way too many of the goals are about finding stuff, which isn't as good in a snowboarding game where you can only go in one direction. Pretty crap soundtrack too IMO but apparently that was a hot take, a bunch of people said they liked it |
| PS1 | BursTrick Wake Boarding!! | Wakeboarding | Definitely a Simple 1500 game, there's not much here, but it looks great and plays good too. Cool that they gave it two completely separate sets of mechanics and stages for the two modes instead of just reusing stuff. |
| PS2 | Surfroid | Surfing | This game has a very negative reputation but honestly once you grasp the controls it's kinda fun. Absolutely insane decision to not have a score counter though, like actually what were they thinking. Great alien theming that I think was unfortunately mostly lost in the US version... |
| PS2 | Yanya Caballista | Skateboarding | Huge potential, there's a lot about this game to really like. The quarter pipes feel really broken though, and when Prison Island is like 80% quarterpipe it makes that level really ass. Do not touch the final level until you've got 100% in the first four otherwise you're doing the whole thing twice... |
| GBC | Xtreme Sports | Multiple | Official minigame tier list: Skydiving > Street Luge > Inline Skating > Skateboarding > Surfing. Huge potential in the island overworld concept but apparently it was done kinda last-minute so I understand why it's basic. Game is way too long tbh lol |
| PS1 | MTV Sports: Snowboarding | Snowboarding | Trick'n Snowboarder but without the great presentation. It's serviceable but short and not that exciting. Might have an ending that I didn't reach but it's unclear |
| PS2 | Alpine Racer 3 | Skiing | Absolutely insane visuals and soundtrack, the final stage basically turned into Wipeout on skiis. The racing is decent enough |
| PS1 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 | Skateboarding | It's fine. The goals are kinda boring, it's mostly score based instead of finding stuff based which I generally appreciate but some more variety/creativity would be nice. ofc that's probably asking too much from this specific game lol |
| PS1 | Skydiving Extreme | Skydiving | 20 minute game where you just do QTEs. Seems mostly geared around multiplayer but it isn't very interactive, like you can't do much to the other guy so why bother? Game seemed impossible to beat as Big Man but easy as another character, I may be missing a mechanic |
| PS1 | X-Bladez: Inline Skater | Rollerblading | I still had fun for some reason, but objectively the game is not good. Still more of a game than some of the other budget ps1 stuff I played that day |
| PS1 | Barbie Super Sports | Multiple | Kinda just an extreme sports reskin of Elmo's Letter Adventure / Number Journey. I get this is probably for really small children but idk, I was a small child once and I still played more real games than this |
| PS2 | Skateboard Madness: Xtreme Edition | Skateboarding | When you get to the end of the game, instead of any kind of ending you get the same "New level unlocked" text that every other level gives you, but there's nothing left to unlock so it's just wrong. That's the level of care put into every aspect of the game |
| PS1 | Radikal Bikers | Pizza Delivery | Not as chaotic as Smashing Drive, Radikal mode might have something going on but I finished Arcade mode and couldn't really be bothered. Arcade version may be better |
| PS2 | AirBlade | Hoverboard | Very abrupt non-ending. I'm more forgiving of having to redo stuff and the difficulty of the last level now that I know how short the game is. The hoverboard definitely controls weird but the game's not bad, it's kinda good |
| PS2 | Skate Attack | Skateboarding | Commendable how much they decided to do for a budget game, but making you spend ages in each of the levels kinda ruined the potential fun |
| PS3 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD | Skateboarding | Given what diasters Ride/Shred/THPS5 are, I expected much worse from this. It does kind of run like ass on PS3, and the physics are definitely kinda wonky sometimes, and I guess the "HD" actually just looks bad (that's just how UE3 looked tbh), but it's playable and not a total disaster. |
| DC | Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX | BMX | Much better than I remember Mat Hoffman 2 being. I still don't get why every BMX game has to control like crap on purpose though. Only had 5 goals per level and only 2 competitions which made it feel kinda short. Also, the jump for the secret cover in the first level is insane lol |