Retro Arcade: 720° - Part Two, Downhill & Jump

Second 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 part one explains. 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 break-neck downhill park and the jump park.

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

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