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Ski or Die

Moby ID: 496
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Ski or Die is a winter-themed extreme sports game in which the player can competes in 5 different events:

  • Downhill Blitz: Downhill skiing event in which the player can make large jumps over chasms and perform stunts in the moguls section

  • Innertube Trash: Two players descend a mountain in innertubes. Score points by picking up items, perforating your opponents tire with a knife or fork and finishing first.

  • Acro Aerials: Ski down a ramp and score points by performing acrobatic jumps.

  • Snowball Blast: First person snowball fight. Score points by taking out little that attack your snow fortress.

  • Snowboard Half-Pipe: Put on your snowboard and score as much points as possible in a limited amount of time by performing tricks inside a half-pipe.

Practice a single event or try the tournament. The tournament mode has hot-seat multiplayer support.

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  • שעשועי סקי - Hebrew spelling

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Average score: 71% (based on 32 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.7 out of 5 (based on 61 ratings with 5 reviews)

Don't die, Ski!

The Good
The events in this game are really cool, and differ from the classic Olympic games. The sound is amazing, and the graphics are very nice, colorful and detailed. The snowball blast is my favourite, because its very intense when you need to watch every direction for those snowball throwing kids.

The Bad
Its a little hard to perform very good because the controls are quite difficult. Also, the game could have more events and more diversity in the moves and the tricks that you can do on the half-pipe and the big jump.

The Bottom Line
This game is a lot of fun. its looks good, its sound good and even though you probably won't play it for a long time, it's gonna be good hour or so you will spend with this game.

DOS · by brother34 (3) · 2013

I used to fire it up just for the music

The Good
One thing: the soundtrack. This is one of a few games that showed how FM music could really sound. The distorsion guitar instrument has been well designed and there are lots of effects such as vibratos that make the songs extremely realistic.

I once had a friend who didn't beleive me that owning an AdLib was worth 150 bucks. I taped him the theme song from this game and he got convinced immediately. I can't speculate on the MT-32 sound, but I guess it must be as good.

The Bad
You get bored quickly. There are not a lot of games and they don't get harder as you get used to them. After a few days, you'll have enough. Therefore, buying this game at the full retail price is not a good investment.

The Bottom Line
Without the great AdLib soundtrack that blew me out of my socks, this game wouldn't have much to be remembered of.

DOS · by Olivier Masse (443) · 1999

The best sports game for your PC... kind of...

The Good
This game features some of the best AdLib music I've ever heard, by that incredible music man Rob Hubbard (of C=64 fame). Too bad my SB 128 PCI can't play it like my SB 2.0 could... Anyway, the graphics are also great, colourful EGA, with well defined and animated characters.

The events are pretty nice, too, with a snowball fight, downhill skiing, snowboard half-pipe, and acro aerials...

The Bad
...but I never did quite get the hang of the stupid innertube trash event, and some of the events are way too fast on a new computer.

The Bottom Line
This game is like Summer/Winter Games meets Skate or Die. The actual gameplay is pretty much like WG, with the option of choosing between practicing or participating in one or more events and waggling the joystick to get speed and ranking lists and such. It runs great on a 286 and the sound is superb for its time (and pretty good even today, unless you want environmental audio or something silly like that). If you don't like ice-hockey or football (soccer) games, maybe you should give this a try, as it is great fun - with one or more friends! I wouldn't play this by myself if you paid me. (Is that a checkbook I see? All right, I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy it.)

DOS · by Late (77) · 2001

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Product placement

Ski or Die features quite a bit of product placement by snowboarding brand Burton. You can see their company name in Rodney's shop, on the event selection screen, and at the acro aerials event.

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Game added by Olivier Masse.

Amiga added by Famine3h. Commodore 64 added by Terok Nor. NES added by Indra was here.

Additional contributors: Roedie, Alaka, Crawly.

Game added November 29, 1999. Last modified January 24, 2024.