Winter Olympics

Winter Olympics
Series	Game Grumps
Console	SNES
Episodes	1
Playlist	One game; one episode.
Run	October 31, 2012
Status	One-off

 

Winter Olympics is a SNES game played by Jon and Arin on Game Grumps.

The game was sent by Tyler Light, but was credited to Brenda T. McClean. Barry later edited the video description to correct the problem.

Episode

• Winter Olympics

Game information

Winter Olympics (Lillehammer 94 is added informally and is not part of the official title) is the official video game of the XVII Olympic Winter Games that were held in Lillehammer, Norway in 1994. Published by U.S. Gold. Home computer versions (Amiga and PC) were developed by ID Software (not to be confused with id Software, of Doom fame) and console versions (GG, MD/Gen, Master System, Super NES) were developed by Tiertex. The game featured 10 winter sporting events. There are also major differences between platforms. Players can represent countries from all over the world. The player can train freely and compete in both full or mini (events selected by the player) Olympics. 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, like decathlon. Doing so, it was perfectly possible to someone win the gold medal in short track, and get few more points than other skaters (even not finalists) that got better qualifying times. This scoring method also meant that someone who won gold medals in six or seven events might fall outside the top 10 if is disqualified on the remaining three.