Winter Olympics

The game includes 10 winter sporting events. Players can represent countries from all over the world.

• Title — Winter Olympics • Developer — Abstract Images Unexpected Development Tiertex • Publisher — U.S. Gold • Platforms — Amiga, Genesis, Game Boy, Super NES, Game Gear, MS-DOS, Master System • Released — Amiga Genesis MS-DOS Game Boy January 1994SNES Game Gear Master System • Genre — Sports • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

The player can train freely and compete in either full or mini Olympics, the latter of which allows the player to choose events. Before the competition, the player can choose between the 16 teams, each representing one of the many participating nations at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Also during competition, there are both medals and points tables. While in Olympic Gold points were awarded according to the medals table, in Winter Olympics they were given according to the best results, as in decathlon. Doing so, it was perfectly possible for one to win the gold medal in short track and get few more points than other skaters (even non-finalists) that got better qualifying times. This scoring method also meant that one who won gold medals in six or seven events might fall outside the top 10 if disqualified on the remaining three.

• Downhill • Giant Slalom • Super G • Slalom • Bobsled • Luge • Freestyle moguls (console versions only) • Ski jumping • Biathlon • Short track

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Major differences between versions stemmed from U.S. Gold's choice to use two companies developing different versions of the game separately. Additionally, Tiertex wrote original code for each platform instead of porting. Amongst major differences, freestyle moguls are different on the 16-bit versions, and overall the Super NES version is much more unforgiving than the Genesis version, while the Master System version allows better control on alpine skiing events.