Retro Arcade: 720° - Part One, Ramp & Slalom

First of 3 vids looking at Atari's 720°, a pioneering arcade game based on skateboarding, in its 25th anniversary this year.

It should be noted that the game is very difficult to play through an emulator with a conventional gamepad, as the video notes at the start. Therefore, these MAME clips are nothing like the brilliance of 720° players on real arcade machines (see the great Jeff Civitate - DrunkJeff1 - at http://www.720zone.com/, for example). However, this trilogy of vids shows the possibilities of running the game through MAME, which was still a lot of fun.

A few cheats were enabled - they seemed more or less necessary to give the game some playability. These were infinite area time, lots of money and unlimited tickets. With the limitations involved, a legitimate hi-score was never a consideration anyway, but it was fun to try for high medal counts from the skate parks.

This video looks at two of the four skate parks available, the slightly glitchy ramp park and the gamepad-unfriendly slalom park.

See: http://www.720zone.com/720-Gameplay.html for more on 720° rules and gameplay.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• 720
• Degrees
• Skateboard
• Skate
• Jumps
• Games
• Gaming
• Retro
• Video
• Arcade
• MAME
• Emulation
• Atari

[Bladerunner55217]

I remember when I was 12 13 years old I would go to Huntington and Balboa beach California and after body boarding we would go to this Arcade that was in the balboa beach area and there would be a long line of kids waiting to challenge the winner, Mainly local kids. It was pretty serious stuff to them lol.. Oh yeah Another big line of kids was all ways at the track and field game with their combs in their hands waiting to race ;) Hey whats the name of the instrumental that your playing Thanks