Super Family Gelände

Super Family Gelände
Super Family Gelände Title screen
Publisher(s)	Namco
Composer(s)	Kouji Nakagawa
Platforms	Super Famicom (Nintendo Power)
Release date(s)
Genre(s)	Sports (skiing)
Mode(s)	Single-player

Super Family Gelände (スーパーファミリーゲレンデ, Sūpā Famirī Gerende) is a Japan-exclusive Skiing video game that was scheduled to sell as a Super Famicom game in 1995; however, it was sold instead as part of the Japanese Nintendo Power download game service, in 1998.

Summary

The game is the spiritual 2D ancestor to Namco’s We Ski, released in 2008. There are time trials and eight slopes available from all over Japan. The story begins with a fox (or rabbit if the player chooses the female character) wanting to become human so he/she can ski. During the story mode, the player has different tasks in each chapter.

Trivia

According to some sources the Japanese took the German word "gelände" (meaning "terrain" or "field") and use it to mean "ski trail". Some Japanese skiing terms come from German (e.g. ストック sutokku for ski poles = from German Stock; and jump, from German Schanze) because skiing was introduced to Japan by an Austrian army major, Hannes Schneider. This usage is distinct from "Gelande" an English ski-ing abbreviation for the German term Geländesprung, a jump from a crouching position.

See also

• List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms
• List of Namco games
• List of Super Famicom and Super NES sports games

External links

• Game overview #1 at magweasel.com
• Game information at Famitsu (Japanese)
• Super Family Gelände at superfamicom.org
• Super Family Gelände at super-famicom.jp (Japanese)
• Super Family Gelände at Wazap! (Japanese)
• Game overview #2 at GeoCities (Japanese)
• Game overview #3 (Japanese)

• Release information at GameFAQs
• Composer information at SNES Music
• Game information at Nintendo Japan
• Arnold Wilson Thomas Cook International Top 50 Ski Resorts 1989- Page 197 "It was Hannes Schneider, the father of the Austrian school of skiing, who helped shape the Japanese dedication to ... area by any standards, with six gelande (a word they borrowed from their Austrian skiing mentors which means ski grounds)."
• Travel in Japan - Volumes 1-3 1935 -- Page 41 "Time was when a Japanese in ski-kit and armed with other paraphernalia arrested attention on a railway platform. ... such words as Schanze, Gelande, and Stemm- bogen, which, though beyond the comprehension of the man in the street, are ..."
• William R. Bracken A handbook on ski-ing 1951 -- Page 52 "Chapter Eight FIELD JUMPING field jumping, or what is known as the Gelande Sprung, is more amusing than useful, ... Crouch low. Place sticks in the snow well forward and ahead of skis, at the top of the up-rise. Hands and arms at waist ...