Xtreme Sports Arcade Summer Edition

FINALLY! Here it is: Footage of the "prequel" to WayForward's Xtreme Sports on Gameboy Color. Please ignore the "ding-dong" sound effect, quirk of the capture program. Alright, in-depth explanation for anyone that cares to read descriptions: Before they made Shantae, WayForward made a Gameboy Color game called Xtreme Sports where you could play as either a hot redhead named Guppi or her boyfriend Fin. The game itself was a collection of 5 "Xtreme Sports" mixed with an RPG adventure element as you walked around Xtreme Island and challenged people. While the game wasn't particularly great or anything, it had some neat ideas an amazing art and sprite work. Well if you type in a cheat code you can access a hidden design sketch gallery where you find pics of a character called "Roller-Babe" and Guppi mentions that Xtreme Sports was made as a sort of Gameboy Color version of a PC game called Xtreme Sports Arcade Summer Edition and Guppi herself was based on Roller-Babe ("I think she's a cousin of mine."). Well I always wondered what the game was like...but there was NO info ANYWHERE on the internet about it! NO videos on YouTube! Heck you couldn't even find a SCREENSHOT! So I said "Heck with it, I'll do it!" and grabbed a copy off Amazon.com for $5. For the record, the jewel case only version would actually be less cheap packaging. The full box one just contains the game in a paper sleeve tucked inside the tiny instruction book that advertises other cheapo shovelware games...like Carnival Games? Wow. Some things never change... Well ANYWAY! As you can see, yes, it's a cheap collection of 5 sports mini-games. Most of them play incredibly similar to their GBC counterparts (though I actually like the skating here more O.o) and yeah, they have Rock Climbing instead of Surfing. You can either practice each sports individually or play a 4-player turn-taking score attack tournament. There's only one sprite set for each sport but judging from the data files there are 5 or 6 "stages" that are randomly chosen for each one. Considering it was sold on the cheap and is over 10 years old now? It's not too bad I guess. I am oddly addicted to the in-line skating at least. Also, the game's sprites are stored as BMP files and all the sound effects are WAVs. As you can also see, yes, Matt Bozon (the brains behind Shantae basically) WAS involved in this...but only as the "animator" (so basically he drew sketches of every frame of animation and someone else traced and colored it). This explains some of the very bad artwork. XD Now I should explain that capturing this footage was a PAIN IN THE ASS! I downloaded 7 different capture programs and only Growler Guncam kinda-sorta worked. The colors would randomly flip-out and invert and do weird shit. Hence why it's only small clips of the games as I cut together the parts that weren't visually fucked. Also, yeah, it makes the "USB device inserted" ding-dong noise when you start recording...and record that too. Ah well, footage of this mysterious game now exists. Woo! They've come a long way since then. I just picked up their Thor game on DS (actually pretty good) and Mighty Milky Way just hit DSi Ware (also good). ...but seriously, who thought that "climbing" noise was a good idea?!