Winter Games (1985) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Winter Games

Third in the series of Epyx Olympic sports games. Compete in many different sporting events like: Ski Jump, Hot Dog, Biathlon, Bobsled, Free Skating, Figure Skating and more.

90 1 October 1985

What Winter Games is

Winter Games is a sport game developed by Action Graphics, Inc. and released in 1985. It was published by Epyx. It is available on Wii and Commodore C64/128/MAX.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Winter Games is a 1985 sports video game developed by Epyx and released in Europe by U.S. Gold. 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.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Winter Games holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 95% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1985 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Winter Games launched on 1 October 1985, within three weeks of Gauntlet and Starquake. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2.

Released around the same time: Gauntlet, Starquake.

Cheats and codes

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