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- This article refers to the Epyx video game series. You may be looking for the Winter Olympic Games or Winter sport
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| Developer(s) | Epyx Atelier Double (NES) |
| Publisher(s) | Epyx (US), U.S. Gold (EU) Acclaim (NES) |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, PC, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, C64, NES, Famicom Disk System, Virtual Console, Apple Macintosh |
| Release | 1986 Virtual Console |
Winter Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx (and released in Europe by U.S. Gold), based on sports featured in the Winter Olympic Games.
A snow-and-ice themed follow-up to the highly successful Summer Games, Winter Games was released in 1986 for the Commodore 64 and later ported to several popular home computers and video game consoles of the 1980s.
The game was presented as a virtual multi-sport carnival called the "Epyx Winter Games" (there was no official IOC licensing in place) with up to 8 players each choosing a country to represent, and then taking turns competing in various events to try for a medal.
Events
The events available vary slightly depending on the platform, but include some or all of the following:
- Alpine skiing
- Ski jumping
- Biathlon
- Bobsled
- Figure skating
- Speed skating
- Luge
- Freestyle skiing; more precisely, the aerial skiing discipline, called "Hot Dog" in the game.
The game allowed you to compete in all of the events sequentially, choose a few events, choose just one event, or practice an event.
Ports
Winter Games was ported to the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and DOS computer platforms, and to the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Nintendo NES, and the Famicom Disk System video game consoles. In 2004, it was featured as one of the games on the C64 Direct-to-TV.
Reception
In 1985 Zzap!64 gave 94% for the game calling it "another classic sport simulation from Epyx". Lemon64 website users have given average vote of 8.6 which places the game on top 20 list on the site. The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #132 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 3½ out of 5 stars.[1]. The Angry Video Game Nerd was highly critical of the game, and featured it on the 2010 Christmas special of bad games, stating: "This is a Blizzard of Balls, I can't believe humanity was capable of degrading itself so low as to produce such insulting catastrophe of ass".[2]
References
- ^ Lesser, Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk (April 1988). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (132): 80–85.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ AVGN Holiday Memories
External links
- Winter Games at MobyGames
- Winter Games: Package and Manual Scans Images of Winter Games box, manual and screen shots at c64sets.com
- Winter Games at SpectrumComputing.co.uk
- 1986 video games
- Epyx games
- Winter Olympic video games
- Winter sports video games
- Apple II games
- Amiga games
- Amstrad CPC games
- Apple IIGS games
- Commodore 64 games
- Atari 2600 games
- Atari 7800 games
- Atari ST games
- DOS games
- MSX games
- Nintendo Entertainment System games
- Famicom Disk System games
- ZX Spectrum games
- Virtual Console games