Hoverboard racing in urban settings, pre-Tony Hawk in spirit. Aerial trick chains, empty environments, soft controls. Fresh idea, timid execution, forgotten in no time.
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Sports1 player3+
Split screen
Description
Futuristic hoverboard racer from Human Entertainment, published by Human Entertainment in Japan in 1997 and by Ubi Soft in Europe in 1998. Six riders, mid-air courses, time attack mode, split-screen versus mode and tricks chained high above the void.
The European edition of Airboarder 64, out mid-1998 under the same Human Entertainment. Loose prices match the Japanese version, but it stands apart for a steep climb toward CIB and sealed, a sign of a tight PAL run for an obscure title few buyers kept boxed. It is the loose-to-complete gap, not the game, that drives this segment: a PAL completist piece sought to close out an exhaustive Western N64 set.