720° Arcade Game Was Brutal… and Legendary!
0🕹 Game Name: 720°
📛 Alternate Names: Two Seventy, 720 Degrees
📅 Release Date: 1986
🔫 Genre: Extreme Sports / Skateboarding
👨 🏻 💻 Developers: Atari Games
👨 🏻 💻 Publishers: Atari Games, Midway
🔢 Max Players: 1
⁉ Cooperative: No
🕹 Game Introduction:
720° is a pioneering skateboarding arcade game where you must conquer the neighborhood with tricks, races, and style while avoiding the dreaded "Skate or Die" warning.
🕹 Game Description:
720° blends time-based progression with exploration, tasking players to complete events across different skate parks in a massive open-world map—an ambitious design for its era.
🎴 Game Play:
👉 🏻 Explore neighborhoods with ramps, pools, and skate zones
👉 🏻 Enter competitions like downhill, ramp, jump, and slalom
👉 🏻 Collect money to upgrade gear and earn high scores
👉 🏻 Evade bees and other hazards as time runs out
👉 🏻 Game features unique isometric controls and joystick spinning
📕 Background & History:
720° was one of the first extreme sports games and is considered a spiritual predecessor to the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. It stood out for its intense difficulty and iconic cabinet.
🐣 Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs:
👉 🏻 No standard cheats, but jumping early into ramps can help glitch extra airtime
👉 🏻 Use diagonal momentum tricks to shortcut parts of the map
🐱 💻 Hacks:
👉 🏻 MAME versions can be modified to start with infinite tickets or time
👉 🏻 Joystick sensitivity can be increased in emulation for easier spins
🎉 Trivia:
👉 🏻 720° was named after the real-world skateboarding trick (two full rotations)
👉 🏻 Cabinet had a booming speaker system to blare “SKATE OR DIE”
👉 🏻 Considered one of the hardest arcade games of the ‘80s
👓 Lonster's Review:
720° is pure retro aggression. The pressure of the clock, combined with crazy precision controls, made it frustrating as a kid—but addictively satisfying. The music, the ramps, and that evil bee? Unforgettable.
🌟 Legacy:
720° paved the way for skating games as a genre. Though overshadowed now, it remains an arcade staple that dared to be different.
✨ Cultural Impact:
From its unique cabinet to the impact on skate culture, 720° made arcade skateboarding cool before it was even a thing in pop culture.
💭 Lonster's Final Thoughts:
SKATE. OR. DIE. This game doesn’t care about your feelings—it just wants tricks and speed. Retro gamers know… this is where skateboarding began.
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