Giles Goddard is renowned for previously working with Nintendo on games such as 1080­­° Snowboarding, Super Mario 64, Doshin the Giant, Star Fox and Stunt Race FX. After leaving Nintendo he formed a team in Japan called Vitei, which created Theta on DS late last year for Nintendo. Following this the team started working on a WiiWare project that uses the Balance Board and Nintendo will publish it in September in Japan.

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"Virtual Console fans hoping for their usual dose of weekly Shop Channel variety will have to make do with somewhat of a mini content update today, with only one classic videogame offering throwing up a puff of glorious white powder as 1080° Snowboarding carves its way onto Nintendo’s download portal.

"Traverse the half-pipe from the comfort of your living room," enthuses the Nintendo blurb. "With this classic game, it's Winter Break all the time… It’s all the fun and excitement of the spor..."

mistermostyn via gaming.monstersandcritics.com »

Europe is truly a follower this week. They follow in both Japan's and North America's footsteps by getting one game from each region that had released this past week. One pretty good one from Japan, and one mediocre one from North America.

The pretty good one from Japan is none other than the hit snowboarding game 1080 Snowboarding for the N64. Out of the four or five snowboarding games that had hit the N64, 1080 Snowboarding is the third best, if only because of Snowboard Kids 1 and 2....

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