The Games: Winter Edition
The Games - Winter Edition is the follower of Winter Games. Epyx has chosen a new selection of events. Some events were already available in Winter Games, while others are new in The Games. Together with the…
The Games: Winter Edition is a racing developed by Epyx, released 1 June 1988 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II and Atari ST/STE.
What The Games: Winter Edition is
The Games: Winter Edition is a racing game developed by Epyx and released in 1988. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Games - Winter Edition is the follower of Winter Games. Epyx has chosen a new selection of events. Some events were already available in Winter Games, while others are new in The Games. Together with the Winter Games is The Games a nice collection of Olympic disciplines. As it was common with sports games of that time, there are some disciplines that call on the player to destroy the joystick by jolting it too much. The game is designed for up to 8 players. The players receive points for successfully ending a discipline. For each gold medal you get 5 points, for each silver medal 3 points and one point for each bronze medal. The player with the most points wins the game. Epyx has…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
The Games: Winter Edition launched on 1 June 1988, within three weeks of Blaster Master and Altered Beast.
Released around the same time: Blaster Master, Altered Beast.
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