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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Slalom	Nintendo (Rare)	1987	[49]* [33]* [22]* [52]The freezing wind cracks against your face. The tension mounts. Suddenly you’re off! Speeding through the gates on one of Nintendo’s 24 snow-covered runs. Welcome to SLALOM! Where you feel every bump, every jump, every death-defying turn, just like in a real slalom race! Along the way you’ll dodge other competitors, trees, sledders – even snowmen – as you speed down mountains like Snowy Hill, Mount Nasty and Steep Peek in a heart-pounding race against the clock. Challenge the moguls and execute trick jumps. You’ll find SLALOM just as thrilling and dangerous as the real thing!**"Slalom" is Rare's first game for a Nintendo console and one of the first games that were not released in Japan. A simple looking and playing skiing game where you have to race down a mountain and make it to the finish in time to get to the next of all in all 24 courses. What makes this game interesting is its very fast speed without a noticeable framedrop. Just don't expect a realistic sports simulation here.
Winter Games	Acclaim Entertainment (Atelier Double)	1987	It's all here - the strategy, the challenge, the competition and the pageantry of the Winter Games. Compete against a friend or take on the computer in four completely realistic and action-packed events. Choose the country you want to represent. Then practice, train and develop the winning strategy for each competition... Speed Skating in a grueling race on ice. Hot Dog Aerials for daredevils on skis. Figure Skating to test balance, stamina and precision. Bobsled, where every screaming turn could mean the difference between wiping out and winning gold. Your adrenaline and heart are racing. Let the games begin!* [52]*What have they done to my beloved "Winter Games"? The homecomputer versions were great, especially the C64 version. The NES version (released a few months after the Japanese Famicom Disk System version by Pony Canyon) is a total mess. Only four events instead of eight (missing my personal favorites, Biathlon and Ski Jump) and those events that are in are badly ported. Controls are bad. In Figure Skating you not even know what to do when. Graphics are bad. Sound is bad (whoever came up with the Speed Skating "intro sound" must be insane). I have seen rather bad homecomputer ports on the Famicom/NES (just think of [game=#7823]Ghostbusters[/game]), but "Winter Games" is amongst the very worst.
World Games	Milton Bradley (Rare)	1989	Take on the world!Get ready - get set - get psyched! The World Games are here! And you're a star athlete in this awesome international competition! Go for the gold as you challenge the world' best athletes on their home turf! Leap from the treacherous cliffs of Acapulco. Go stomach-to-stomach with a 400-pound Japanese sumo wrestler. Jump barrels on an icy lake in Germany. And pump heavy iron in the Soviet Union. Travel to Scotland for the amazing caber toss! Then to Canada for frantic footwork with log rolling lumberjacks. Ski the slalom on the snow-covered French Alps. And ride the meanest, orneriest bull in the U.S.A.! Return home with enough gold medals and join the World Hall of Fame! 8 International Events:* Cliff Diving * Bull Riding * Log Rolling * Caber Toss * Sumo Wrestling * Barrel Jumping * Slalom Skiing * Weight Lifting 1 to 8 Players***1 player or 2 players simultaneous competitive. 2-8 players take turns competing. [Zerothis]
Mission: Impossible	Ultra Games;Palcom (Konami)	1990	Doctor "O" - the Clone Plan genius - has been kidnapped by the Sinister Seven. Also swiped was his computerized military defense system, which the evil thugs have reprogrammed to destroy the world. Now his future, and ultimately Earth's survival, depend on your crack Mission Impossible Team to perform a secret surgical strike and rescue. But to pull off this operation, you must be daring enough to command three different IMF identities - Max, Grant, and Nicholas. Each has special agent talents and firepower which you must master to survive six torturous levels with dozens of hidden Espionage Zones. So good luck, Jim. As always, should any of your IM Force be caught, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions... THIS BOX WILL SELF-DESTRUCT IN 5 SECONDS!* [64]* [37]* [32]* [29]* [27]*Developed by Konami Industry Co. Ltd. Published by Ultra Games, 1990-09 in Canada, and the USA. NES-U4-USA, published by Ultra Games, 1990-09 in the USA. Published by Ultra Games, 1990-09 in Mexico Published by Palcom, 1991-11-28 in Europe Ultra Games and Palcom were owned by Konami, same company [Zerothis]
Ski or Die	Ultra Games	1991	Welcome to Rodney's Winter Wonderland of tasty tournaments. A gnarly snow sport spectacular of five events - Snowboard Half Pipe, Snowball Blast, Inner Tube Thrash, Downhill Blitz, and Acro Aerials. Whether you're trying to win points or the judges' hearts, it's a torture test of slope-slicing skill for up to six skiers. But Rodney warns you the mountain's crawlin' with contest crashers like punk penguins, abnormal abominables, chainsaw-toting rabbits and bodacious polar bears. Frenzied freaks of nature who want you to cash it in on a snow bank. But buckle down and you'll rack up points for pulverizing all kinds of ski shack scum. Assuming, of course, you can swoosh past bear traps, trees and other ouch-inducing obstacles. And when you're not engaged in wild tubular warfare with twisted slope slime like Lester or the iglooheads, you must blind the keen-eyed judges with your brilliant backflips, ollies, pikes, hand plants, daffies and helicopters. Just stay cool while you hone your skills in practice or hot-dog it in competition. Because one bogus move and you'll be plowing the slope with your chin.* [37]* [29]* [27]1 player or 2 players simultaneous competitive, 1-6 players turn based competitive. Compete in winter events:[list][]Snowball Blast []Downhill Blitz []Acro Aerials []Intertube Thrash (up to 2 players simultaneous) []Snowboard Halfpipe[/list] [Zerothis]

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