The premise is simple. Two office workers, Tobio and Karin, carom down Tokyo streets on office furniture to try to get away from Yakuza thugs. Along with the wackiness, the bright lighting and colorful art reminded me of the arcade classics SEGA was prone to putting out in the late 1990s and early 2000s, such as Crazy Taxi.

On the first level, I played Karin as she rolled down the street on her office chair. The controls use a combination of motion and traditional buttons--to get her running to push the chair I waved the Move up and down and then she hopped on the chair once I got some speed going. I had to pull the trigger to get her to lie back and pass under scaffolding or flick the Move up to get her to leap over cars with goals above them.

For the second run I chose Tobio, riding a file cabinet dolly. It was much sturdier, built up more momentum, but was more difficult to steer. On both tracks Yakuza appeared about a quarter ways down to try and stop my descent with a well placed kick or forearm.

Along with avoiding them, I could knock them out of the way with a button press that resulted in a well-placed kick. For added style, two of the buttons on the controller trigger trick moves, like Karin standing on her chair and doing a quick pirouette.

Like the classic arcade games it brought to mind, Slider was good silly fun. It took a little to get timing down, but it clicked once I learned that it took a little anticipation to get right. After that I was able to string together some ridiculous looking combos like hopping up to grind down a rail, popping off to whack a thug, leaping a car, squeezing through scaffolding, and escaping around a corner.

The combination of motion controls with traditional buttons felt a little strange but it also wasn't as awkward as trying to make all sorts of wild gestures to pull off moves. With the right sleds and tracks, Slider could definitely be a fun return of arcade style gaming.