California Games 2

Genre:

Sports

Year:

1990

Developer:

Epyx

Publisher:

Epyx

Perspective:

3rd-person, Side-view

Theme:

Olympiad, Skiing / Snowboarding

Releases:

DOS (1990), SNES (1992), Amiga (1992), Atari ST (1992), SMS (1993)

Also known as:

California Games II

This game is a sort of mix between games Summer Challenge and Ski or Die. You compete in various disciplines that are fun, humorous with the various situations and minigames (for example, you must drive a helicopter so you can go snowboarding). There are five disciplines together: bodyboarding (bodyboard, waves, that's iterator_apply), jet surfing (classic jets, drive around the buoys), snowboarding (typical summer game, right?), hang gliding (fly off a cliff and try to hit 3 buoys) and skateboarding (skateboarding in the half-pipe and tunnels - watch out, the edges tend to be cruel, see the last screenshot). The game has very nice graphics, creators of the game putted a nice slogan on the game-box: "Graphics that make you feel like you're there".