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Here is the new one!!
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I had Winter Games on the NES and it was certainly a piece of garbage...but I was able to get good scores in the hot dog, figure skating, and bobsled events. Speed skating was hopeless.Originally Posted by guitargary75
I don't know if any other versions of Winter Games were fun, but the NES version wasn't, even when I got good at it. It was a waste of $50. How do the other versions compare? Are they all boring and poorly programmed?
Great ending, by the way.
I remember enjoying Winter games on the Apple IIe we had when I was younger. There were a lot more events though and it wasn't difficult to control at all. I hate the NES version.
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I remember playing this on multiple platforms and having the same issues James had. Just a lot of head scratching and pushing buttons. I'm sure there is a method to the madness, but it all seemed really cryptic and random.
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It did make me laugh, and he put a lot into it. However, no matter how bad it is, destruction of anything video gaming related (especially if it's old) upsets me. I wish he would stop doing that.Great ending, by the way.
He doesnt do it very often...
Im glad to see him getting a bit more uppity over the games he reviews again. He has been a bit reserved in the last few months.
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All of the "Games" titles (Summer, Summer II, Winter, California, World) were fantastic on the Commodore 64.I had Winter Games on the NES and it was certainly a piece of garbage...but I was able to get good scores in the hot dog, figure skating, and bobsled events. Speed skating was hopeless.
I don't know if any other versions of Winter Games were fun, but the NES version wasn't, even when I got good at it. It was a waste of $50. How do the other versions compare? Are they all boring and poorly programmed?
Great ending, by the way.
EPYX was truly at home on the C=64 hardware and it showed in nearly every one of their releases.
*Granted, every entry in the "Games" series does require some time spent with the instruction manual to figure out the control method for each event ... but since they were olympic style skill games, the expectation was that scoring high would require learning and then practicing each event to reach gold medal level skills.
(I recall busting my ass to wow the judges on Hot Dog and Figure Skating ... it's not easy, but it's certainly possible, and satisfying when you do.)
Of course James' assessment of the gimpy port NES version of the game seems reasonable, EPYX didn't really rock the NES hardware like they did the LYNX ... but come on, how many NES games WILL function properly if you just smash on the buttons and d-pad the way he was at the end?
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Another great review by James, the only thing s that if he would have looked at the instruction book for Winter Games he would have at least had a better idea how to control the games. Although it doesnt do too much good as the game is terrible (personal experience). :P
I think he's mentioned in the past that he uses "stunt carts"... if you look carefully at the beginning of the video, the cart he pulls out of the box has a torn label, but the cart he tosses into the fire has an intact label. Perhaps he had a hollow reproduction made, complete with a sticker, just for that purpose.
I have Summer and Winter Games for 7800, because they were somewhat okay on there. EPYX should never have attempted to move to the NES. Their games were clearly designed for computers of the time, and the NES versions should have gotten a lot of polishing. An example of a classic software developer which was not able to step up their game to the new hardware. But they did develop the Atari Lynx.
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I had Winter Games AND California games as a kid. California games was at last playable. Winter Games was a piece of shit. It was the sort of game you'd flip through in desperation to find something anything to play. You fell down a lot, ranked 0.0s, and sometimes sloshed the bobsled halfway through the course. Sadly the opening cinematics were the best part.
Heh I have Winter Games for NES, never played it but I have it.
Last edited by Urzu402; 12-24-2009 at 11:28 AM.
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It was an okay review. Anyways, I thought California Games was somewhat decent.
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A very good review, and as noted by Sonicwolf -- the anger has clearly returned.
World Games, by the way, is also a piece of crap. Never played Summer of California, so I can't comment.
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Oh no, the extremely common, essentially worthless cartridge was ruined! Won't someone please think of the children!? He ruined an inanimate object for comedy's sake very successfully (even you admitted you laughed). He didn't kick a dog in the face or push someone's grandma down the stairs.
Awesome vid, great intro, great ending. I like when he rips on non-obvious, easy-target games. Like everyone else who played it on the NES, I hated Winter Games as a kid, but I haven't thought about its gameplay in probably 15 years.
I am also shocked, shocked, SHOCKED that kugompogli just thought it was "okay."
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I thought the video was just okay as well. I was expecting more humor in the review. I think that it's also a really bland and narrow game that didn't lend itself that well to critiquing, since there really isn't a lot to discuss. I mean, he spent at least a minute just talking about the name entry screen. Perhaps I would have enjoyed it more if I'd actually played the game before viewing it.
Great review for another shit game. Another game that when I got it, I played for a few minutes, then shelved it.
I've great memories of the Commodore 64 game. It's a classic on that system, but the NES versions sucks.I had Winter Games on the NES and it was certainly a piece of garbage...but I was able to get good scores in the hot dog, figure skating, and bobsled events. Speed skating was hopeless.
I don't know if any other versions of Winter Games were fun, but the NES version wasn't, even when I got good at it. It was a waste of $50. How do the other versions compare? Are they all boring and poorly programmed?
Great ending, by the way.
Part of the name entry screen was kind of stupid. Most games in that era (and also games after that era) only give you 3 characters to enter a name.
Stop this charade. You don't play games. You just play forums.
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The nerd is getting better after a streak of crappy videos!
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