

Ski Safari 2 is a very fun game with good graphics and a good vibe in general. You'll be able to use all the money you get during your runs to buy lots of stuff to customize your characters: suits for the two characters (a guy and a girl), for example, and new skis and snowboards. The penguins let you ride them, the Yetis carry you on their shoulders, and even the eagles let you fly for a while. Rocks, on the one hand, will stop you, while everything else will be a big help. Tapping the screen will make you jump while holding your finger down will make you spin in the air.ĭuring your descent, you'll have to pay close attention to the level's many elements. You descend automatically, meaning you just have to worry about jumping. The gameplay is practically identical to the one included in the saga's first game. One bump against a rock or a bad fall and an avalanche of snow will instantly end your descent.

Some scenes of this game were shown on the BBC Horizon episode, "What Are Dreams?", aired in 2009, months later as a PBS' Nova episode.Ski Safari 2 is an arcade game where you play a skier who has to descend as fast as possible down the slope of a snowy mountain. However, he said the actual skiing and opponent AI are unchanged from the first game, and "in the final analysis there aren't enough improvements to carry Alpine Racer 2 now that the novelty of the original has worn off". A reviewer for Next Generation remarked that the ability to choose from three different characters adds depth to the gameplay, the new courses are larger and more beautiful than those of the original Alpine Racer, and the added multiplayer capability greatly increases the fun of the game. In Japan, Game Machine listed Alpine Racer 2 on their Februissue as being the sixth most-popular dedicated arcade game at the time. He found that after playing the game for hours before going to sleep, even subjects suffering from anterograde amnesia, the inability to form new memories, would dream of skiing. Sleep research Īlpine Racer 2, along with Tetris, was used by Harvard sleep scientist Robert Stickgold to study the relationship between learning and sleep. Unlike the original, two cabinets can be linked together so that players can race against each other. Alpine Racer 2 is a 3D alpine skiing arcade game released by Namco in 1996.
