YMMV / 1080° Snowboarding

• Accidental Innuendo: "Push it in!" "Push it out!"
• Awesome Music:
  • 1080 Snowboarding has a wide range from electronic music to totally 90s sounding rock music.
    • Vacant Lives serving as the main theme of the game can get you so pumped for some RADICAL snowboarding in the 90s, dude!
    • Call Me can end up being seriously catchy for being so annoyingly catchy.
    • Both the track and chorus of "Fine Again" makes what should be a depressing song infectiously catchy and hard not to replay.
    • Golden Forest, which was even added to the Super Smash Bros. series from Brawl onwards.
  • 1080 Avalanche sure as heck raised the budget for the soundtrack of the game, thanks to the power of the GameCube's discs over the N64 cartridges. They got music from licensed bands such as Finger Eleven, Cauterize (which got to do the main theme of the game) and Seether, which was a standard for any boarding games to have to give it some kind of connection to pop culture.
• Broken Base: A common debate with people who played the original (even if they enjoyed it) is that the focus on racing and/or making the tricks too hard to pull off makes the game unfun compared to contemporaries and would like the games to follow arcade trick-heavy contemporaries like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and later on, SSX. 1080 Avalanche would receive this same criticism but worse for being a newer game and still deliberately using the precision tight gameplay. On the other hand you have fans of the games who think that being able to mash buttons to get combo tricks, not having to worry about your landing angles and other timing would dumb down the gameplay. If you end up in the latter category, then you end up having to deal with the fandom debating if the original is better for being the breakthrough game for snowboarding, believing that NST didn't handle the sequel was well as they should have (or as good as Left Field Productions could have), or if Avalanche is better for having aged better, having a more improved sense of speed and a way better soundtrack.
• Fandom Rivalry: You'll find often that 1080 fans will accuse fans of SSX games of not being able to get into "true snowboarding" mechanics and just being into button mashing for tricks. This rivalry was stemmed by reviews of 1080 Avalanche consistently unfavorably comparing it to SSX Tricky.
• First Installment Wins: 1080 Snowboarding has fans who openly admit to having nostalgia goggles and whether that's the case or not, it's the one everyone knows. Meanwhile its GameCube brethren of Avalanche is only well-supported by its Vocal Minority that has grown over the years.
• Memetic Mutation: "WORK YOUR BODY, WORK YOUR BODY!"
• Visual Effects of Awesome:
  • The N64 game was considered one of the most beautiful looking snowboarding games made for its time. Most notably that the clothes snowboard riders would shuffle and blow in the wind as opposed to being completely stiffly painted onto the character models in other 3D boarding games.
  • The titular avalanche effect in 1080 Avalanche. It's intimidating to watch all of that beautiful snow turn into a monstrous natural disaster for you to avoid!

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