UEP Systems

UEP Systems

Industry	Video games
Founded	1985; 39 years ago (1985)
Defunct	July 2001; 22 years ago (2001-07)^[1]
Headquarters	Tokyo , Japan

UEP Systems (ウエップシステム) was a Japanese video game developer founded in 1985. They were best known for their PlayStation-era snowboarding games, though they also released titles for PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, Neo Geo Pocket, and arcade.

History

UEP Systems' most critically acclaimed title is 1997's Cool Boarders 2 for the PlayStation, an early pioneering title of the "action sports" video game genre. The studio's biggest creative release was the quirky 3D action/adventure title Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman, the studio's only non-sports game, which received sub-par reviews but gained a small amount of cult appeal among gamers at the time. Despite the success of their early snowboarding titles, UEP struggled financially in the years that followed with a series of commercially unsuccessful games. After the release of Cool Boarders: Code Alien - another poor seller - for the PlayStation 2 in 2000, the studio disbanded in 2001.

Games developed

Year	Game	Platform(s)
1996	Cool Boarders	PlayStation
1997	Cool Boarders 2
1999	Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman
1999	Rippin' Riders Snowboarding	Dreamcast
2000	Cool Boarders Pocket	Neo Geo Pocket Color
2000	Cool Boarders: Code Alien	PlayStation 2

References

^ internet-tokens.com . (2016, March 24). Tokens.com. internet tokens The Ill Communication. Retrieved March 7, 2022, from https://internet-tokens.com/vgjournalentry/shredding-shooting-and-slicing-with-uep-systems Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20220307214233/https://internet-tokens.com/vgjournalentry/shredding-shooting-and-slicing-with-uep-systems