The sequel, SSX Tricky, then took this formula-head-to-head racing and tricking on dramatic, dangerous tracks-and cranked the volume way up. 'It had people riding head-to-head, it had burms, and it had jumps.' Rechtschaffner later joined EA and turned this new sport into the original SSX. 'We staged the first ever boardercross race,' he said in a 2003 interview. It was created by Steve Rechtschaffner, inspired by a real-life extreme sports event he helped organise that was essentially motocross riding, but on snowboards. SSX Tricky is a sequel to a game released for the PS2 a few years earlier, titled simply SSX. It's one of the best games of the PS2 era, and still immensely playable to this day. This colourful, larger than life snowboarding game launched 20 years ago today for the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube, and is fondly remembered for its vibrant characters, outlandish tricks, rollercoaster-like tracks, and killer soundtrack. But in that relatively short time it spawned a few must-play games-including 2003's sublime SSX Tricky.

It was founded in 2000 before being unceremoniously shuttered less than a decade later in 2008.

EA's short-lived BIG label was an EA Sports offshoot that focused on wild, flamboyant extreme sports games.

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