Top Skater

Top Skater

released on May 01, 1997

Top Skater

released on May 01, 1997

Top Skater is an arcade game released by Sega in 1997, and built on the Sega Model 2 hardware. It was one of the first arcade games to feature a skateboard controller interface. In Top Skater, players stand on a skateboard-like platform which swung side-to-side or tilted, manipulating the actions of the avatars in the game. Similar games were made for skiing, snowboarding and other sports of this nature. The game consisted of various ramps, rails and other skating objects from which the player could do tricks to gain points. The main sponsor of the game was Coca-Cola. The soundtrack of the game consisted entirely of these songs by the punk rock band Pennywise. The game's style is like that of the later and more known Sega game Crazy Taxi, noticeably the character art design and music type. Top Skater was also directed by Kenji Kanno. A lesser known sequel called Air Trix was made in 2001.


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we went to the Pinball Hall of Fame and i got to drink baja blast and ride around on this one, so overall i would say my experience with top skater was Sweet and Refreshing. the controls seem notoriously and in person-ly...? shitty but i was a little fried and a billion small children had probably already thrown themselves against the machine in the time it took me to discover its presence. let top skater reveal its mysteries to you, unfurling like smoke across the arcade floor, an orange glow beckoning you.... find yourself wobbling around gripping the bars while your dude violently throws himself into walls and falls off his board. the Unusual Locomotion Style Arcade Game is a very delightfully enchanting game, no doubt.

Man this thing did not really work that well. Felt cool as hell to stand on, and in my twisted child’s memory the course is basically 1:1 with the cityscape snowboarding level from Sonic Adventure