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Let's face it, snowboarding is just an excuse to wear big chunky clothing and look cool in front of Swedish chicks (until you fall flat on your butt, that is). It's possibly the hippest sport on the planet, but it costs a bomb so why not practise on your Game Boy Color until you've saved up the readies for a real trip to the snowy piste?

Which is where Supreme Snowboarding comes in, offering you the ability to hurtle at rip-break speeds down a mountainside in the comfort of your own home. Sporting both a Speed Challenge and Trick mode you an either go for an all out mountainside race or try to pull as many ollies and indy nosegrabs as possible before the timer runs out.

It all looks pretty good with big cartoon characters, trees, bumps and flags lined up on the screen in pseudo 3D. Then it tries to move and it all goes horribly, horribly wrong! There are certain types of game that the Game Boy Color does better than any other machine on the planet (platformers and RPGs like Pokemon for example). Unfortunately, 3D racing games just don't seem to be one of its strong points.

The scenery jerks around like a Twenties film as you stutter down the mountainside like Charlie Chaplin trying to look cool in his bowler hat (so much for those Swedish chicks that were watching you). It's also a pretty mundane affair. You sway left and right around the flags and jump over the blocks of snow. You've only got a couple of tricks to perform and none of them feel very special.

Supreme Snowboarding is a mundane racing game that fails to capture the excitement of the real sport. You'd be better off keeping the money and putting it towards your first snow-filled holiday.

Graphics 60%
Jerks all over the pace!

Sound 40%
Annoying tune and crummy sounds!

Playability 80%
Easy to play and good fun!

Lastability 20%
Becomes boring far too quickly!

Overall 53%