Super Family Gelände
is a Japan-exclusive Skiing video game that was scheduled to sell as a Super Famicom game in 1995; however, it was sold instead as part of the Japanese Nintendo Power download game service, in 1998.
Summary
The game is the spiritual 2D ancestor to Namco’s We Ski, released in 2008. There are time trials and eight slopes available from all over Japan. The story begins with a fox (or rabbit if the player chooses the female character) wanting to become human so he/she can ski. During the story mode, the player has different tasks in each chapter.
Trivia
According to some sources the Japanese took the German word "gelände" (meaning "terrain" or "field") and use it to mean "ski trail". Some Japanese skiing terms come from German (e.g. ストック sutokku for ski poles = from German Stock; and jump, from German Schanze) because skiing was introduced to Japan by an Austrian army major, Hannes Schneider. This usage is distinct from "Gelande" an English ski-ing abbreviation for the German term Geländesprung, a jump from a crouching position.
See also
- List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms
- List of Namco games
- List of Super Famicom and Super Nintendo sports games
External links
- Game overview #1 at magweasel.com
- Game information at Famitsu
- Super Family Gelände at superfamicom.org
- Super Family Gelände at super-famicom.jp
- Super Family Gelände at Wazap!
- Game overview #2 at GeoCities
- Game overview #3