Release date(s) 1996 Initial release date December 1996 Platform Arcade game | Sound Sound Chips : C352 Genre Sports game | |
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CPU 68EC020, TMS32025, M37710 Display Horizontal, Raster, 640 x 480 pixels, 32768 colors Modes Single-player video game, Multiplayer video game Similar Winter sport games, Other games | ||
Alpine Racer 2 is a 3D Alpine skiing arcade game released by Namco in 1996. It is the sequel to Alpine Racer.
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Sleep Research
Alpine Racer 2, along with Tetris, was used by Harvard sleep scientist Robert Stickgold to study the relationship between learning and sleep. He found that after playing the game for hours before going to sleep, even subjects suffering from anterograde amnesia, the inability to form new memories, would dream of skiing.
TV segment
Some scenes of this game was shown on the BBC Horizon episode, What Are Dreams? aired in 2009, months later as a PBS' Nova episode.
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