SSX (released in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 as: Extreme Racing SSX) is the first in the SSX series

SSX (series)

SSX is a series of snowboarding and skiing videogames published by EA Sports BIG. It is an arcade-style racing game with larger-than-life courses, characters, and tricks...

 of snowboarding video games

Snowboarding video games

Snowboarding games are a genre of computer and video games that emulate the sports of snowboarding and sandboarding. Most snowboarding games are seasonal and come out sometime between October and March. The genre, for console game, peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many online casual games...

. It was developed by EA Canada

EA Canada

EA Canada is a video game developer located in Burnaby, British Columbia. The development studio opened in January 1983 and is EA's largest and oldest studio...

 and published

Video game publisher

A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer....

 by Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

 under their newly-launched EA Sports BIG

EA Sports BIG

EA Sports BIG is a brand name used by Electronic Arts since 2000 to distribute games based on sports with a non realistic arcade gameplay similar to Midway's sports games. SSX was the first game to be published by EA Sports BIG. No game of this brand has been released for PC or Mac.- Games :-...

 brand, and was the first title released under that label, which specializes in extreme sports titles with an unrealistic or arcade feel. As such, the game's exaggerated jumps, highly decorated mountain runs, over-the-top characters, flashy effects, and improbable tricks made it an ideal introduction to the EA Sports BIG brand.