Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding

Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding is a snowboarding game created by Indie Games (a Salt Lake City-based indie developer), released for the original XBox console. In contrast to many snowboarding games, it does not emphasize speed, but rather style and complexity of the stunts pulled by the player in their quest to become the top-ranked snowboarder in the world.

Thoughts

My favorite video game of all time? This is probably it.

The game is not particularly remarkable by most measures. Its technical achievements are modest at best, and its story/characterization is non-existent. But for me, there is perhaps no more fun video game in existence, and the soundtrack - particularly the "emo" genre - is among the best collection of external music that I have ever seen in all of media.