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ESPN ESPN2 Extreme Games
Background Data
Published By: Sony Developed By: Sony Released: September 9th, 1995
Barcode: 7 11719 45032 0 PSRM: 000550 ID Tag: SCUS - 94503
CDs: 1 Players: 1 to 2 Players Versus ESRB: Kids to Adult (Realistic Violence)
Accessories: Memory (1 - 3 Blocks) Size: 529 MB Digital Press Rarity: 3 out of 10

Description
    Insane sports for an extreme generation! Rip up courses on in-line skates, shoot for max speed on the street luge, pull serious air on the skateboarder, and shred courses on the mountain bike.

Review
   ESPN Extreme Games, 1xtreme is a racing title in which you must fend off skateboarders, street lugers, bicyclists, and in-line skaters with your fists and your speed. Here's the neat part; you're all going at it at once. Yup, you blow past that skater on your ten speed as you fly through the streets of San Francisco to the forests of South America.

A fun game, if not really just a poor man's Road Rash. Still one of the only sports games I actually played on a regular basis at the time of its original release. That and NBA Jam: Tournament Edition. The sequels dropped in quality with each release.

 Trivia
  • Launch day game! First ever skateboarding / rollerblade / biking game.


  • Wacky variants below.


  • Renamed to 1xtreme to coincide with 2xtreme, or likely Sony didn't feel like keeping up with the ESPN license.


  • ESPN was the only game in the series to allow you to race any mode of transportation against everyone else. In the sequels, they kept each mode to their own races.

 

Greatest Hits
     This title was never released as a Greatest Hit in it's original form. It was however, released as 1xtreme.



Variations / Misprints
     Released in jewel case version as well as original long box.




PlayStation 2 Compatibility - Fast Load
     All times are rounded up to the nearest second. Tests are performed on a PlayStation 2 Slim Line with 1.11 PS Drivers.

Standard
  • Title to Select - 17 sec
  • Select to Stage - 14 sec
 Fast
  • Title to Select - 16 sec
  • Select to Stage - 9 sec

Game loaded fine with both options turned on.

 PlayStation 2 Compatibility - Smooth
     With the smooth option on, several sprites in-game and even the opening copyright screen have separation or bounding box issues. Minor good things happen on the ground textures.

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