Genre(s) Sports game Initial release date 1985 | ||
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Composer(s) David ThielKenichi Tomizawa (FDS/NES version) Publishers Epyx, U.S. Gold, Acclaim Entertainment, Pony Canyon, Atari, Erbe Software, SA, Commodore Gaming, Funsoft, Kixx Similar Summer Games, California Games, World Games, Summer Games II, Impossible Mission | ||
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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.
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- Events
- Ports
- Reception
- References
A snow-and-ice themed follow-up to the highly successful Summer Games, Winter Games was released in 1985 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.
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Events
The events available vary slightly depending on the platform, but include some or all of the following:
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 Entertainment System, and the Family Computer Disk System video game consoles. In 2004, it was featured as one of the games on the C64 Direct-to-TV.
Reception
Winter Games was Epyx's best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987. 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. The Spectrum version topped the charts for the month of April. The NES and Famicom Disk System versions were critically panned for unresponsive controls, abysmal music and poor graphics.