Net Yaroze Month: Surf Game

In Net Yaroze Month, we are playing every Net Yaroze game featured on the UK Official Playstation Magazine, and ranking them all in the order we liked them. You may have other opinions as to the ranking, which is awesome.

To learn more about Net Yaroze, read our introductory article here.

Despite living by the sea, I have never surfed. Or ridden a jetski. If this was a massive site with a big staff, I’d ask our resident surfing expert to take a look at this game, but its just me, so lets get on with is.

Surf Game, looks impressive, and by its own admission is a prototype. I found it difficult to control, even with a screenshot of the controls next to me while I played. Surfing enthusiasts may get a kick out of it.

Legacy​

Mark Theyer the coder went on to make several PSX games, including Jet Racer, which this game seems to be the prototype for. As well as this he worked on Cars: Race-O-Rama for the Nintendo DS, and South Park Rally for the N64.

Game: Surf Game
By: Mark Theyer
Genre: Surfing
Available on Euro Demos: 77, 91

Net Yaroze Month rankings:​

Surfy/Skatey games are really not my thing. I found it difficult to control and have no surfing ability. If you like this kind of thing, please feel free to ignore my ranking.

1. Blitter Boy
2. Terra Incognita
3. Super Bub Contest
4. Robot Ron
5. Decaying Orbit
6. Psychon
7. INVS
8. Haunted Maze
9. Roller
10. Gravitation
11. Adventure Game
12. Katapila
13. Tanx
14. Opera of Destruction
15. Video Poker Simulator
16. Between the Eyes
17. Bouncer 2
18. Yaroze Rally
19. Sphere
20. Blockz
21. Surf Game

Still to play:​

• Rocks n Gems
• Yarozians
• PingPing
• Game Involving Triangles
• Pssst
• Squeak
• Shroud
• Total Soccer Yaroze
• Time Slip
• Sam the Boulderman
• Technical Demo
• Pushy IIb
• Pandora’s Box
• Down
• Snowball Fight
• Arena
• A Dog Tale
• Mah Jongg
• Samsaric Asymptotes
• Hover Car Racing
• Clone