Front Page Sports: Ski Racing

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Front Page Sports: Ski Racing
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Developer(s) Dynamix
Publisher(s) Sierra On-Line
Platform(s) Windows [1]
ReleaseOctober 1997 [2]

Front Page Sports: Ski Racing is a 1997 video game from Dynamix. The game was later repackaged by publisher Sierra Sports as simply Ski Racing. It was followed by Skiing, 1999 Edition .

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Gameplay

The player is treated to videos of Picabo Street explaining the best and easiest way to make it down the hill alive. [3]

The player is given choices of five different kinds of racing: Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super-G, Downhill and All-Around. [3] In these the player can control the difficulty of the courses by changing the weather and the snow conditions. [3] In addition there are six choices of courses to ski on: Whistler, Aspen Mountain, Vail, Mt. Bachelor, Val d'lsere and Garmisch. [3] [4]

Reception

Computer Gaming World gave the game a score of 2 out of 5 stating "Maybe if Papyrus had developed the game instead of Dynamix it would have been more realistic. As it is, it’s a moderately fun arcade racing game. Just don’t try the slalom." [6]

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  5. ↑ Kaiafas, Tasos (February 10, 1998). "Front Page Sports: Ski Racing Review[date mislabeled as "May 1, 2000"]". GameSpot . Archived from the original on May 12, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
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