SSX (standing for "Snowboard Supercross") is a series of snowboarding video games published by EA Sports, created by Steve Rechtschaffner, who is the inventor of the Olympic snowboarding event boardercross. The SSX series are arcade-style racing games with larger-than-life courses, characters, and tricks. The general focus of the series is racing and performing tricks on snowboards. Players earn speed boosts based on tricks they perform. The player generally has to perform tricks in each race in order to gain speed and successfully take the lead. The series introduced skiing with its fourth in
Key facts
- Video game series.title
- SSX
- Video game series.image
- 250px
- Video game series.caption
- SSX series logo (2011–2012)
- Video game series.developer
- EA CanadaEA Montreal
- Video game series.publisher
- EA Sports
- Video game series.platforms
- PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance, Gizmondo, N-Gage, PlayStation Portable, Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Video game series.genre
- Sports, snowboarding, racing
- Video game series.first release version
- SSX
- Video game series.first release date
- October 26, 2000
- Video game series.latest release version
- SSX
- Video game series.latest release date
- February 28, 2012
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Wikidata facts
- Genre
- sports video game
- Platform
- PlayStation 2
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- publication date
- 2000-10-00
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Gameplay
- Development
- Main series
- ''SSX'' (2000) and ''SSX Tricky''
- ''SSX 3''
- ''SSX on Tour''
- ''SSX Blur''
- ''SSX'' (2012)
- Other games
- ''SSX Out of Bounds''
- ''SSX by EA Sports''
- ''SSX Snowboarder''
- Cancelled games
- ''SSX iPhone''
- Music
- Future
- Characters
- References
- External links
SSX (standing for "Snowboard Supercross") is a series of snowboarding video games published by EA Sports, created by Steve Rechtschaffner, who is the inventor of the Olympic snowboarding event boardercross. The SSX series are arcade-style racing games with larger-than-life courses, characters, and tricks. The general focus of the series is racing and performing tricks on snowboards. Players earn speed boosts based on tricks they perform. The player generally has to perform tricks in each race in order to gain speed and successfully take the lead. The series introduced skiing with its fourth installment, SSX on Tour (2005).
The original SSX (2000) was a launch title for both the EA Sports Big brand and the original PlayStation 2. The franchise has received high critical acclaim, with the first three installments receiving over 90.00% on GameRankings and Metacritic. The series has won numerous awards and its third installment SSX 3 (2003) sold over a million copies. The final game in the franchise is SSX (2012).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SSX” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.