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Ski or Die
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Item Description
Five events, one mountain and a heavy dose of 1990 attitude. Ski or Die was Electronic Arts' winter follow-up to Skate or Die!, and like the NES version of its skateboarding predecessor, this cartridge came by way of Konami and its Ultra Games label, which handled the NES conversion.
The appeal is variety. Downhill Blitz is a reckless race down the slopes, while Acro Aerials is all about launching off jumps and landing freestyle tricks. Innertube Thrash sends you sliding downhill on an inflatable tube in a head-to-head race against a rival, and Snowball Blast turns the mountain into a winter war zone where the goal is to pelt opponents before they pelt you. Then there is the Snowboard Half-Pipe, a reminder that this game put snowboarding tricks on a home console years before the sport reached the Winter Olympics. You can practice any event on its own or run them in sequence as a full competition.
That structure is what makes it a great party cartridge. Friends take turns chasing high scores across the events, trash-talking each crash and arguing over who really won the half-pipe. The tone is pure EA sports of the era, a little goofy and a little rebellious.
Ski or Die is a fun snapshot of the moment when extreme sports were becoming a video game genre of their own, years before Tony Hawk and SSX made it mainstream. If Skate or Die! already has a spot on your NES shelf, its snowbound sibling makes the perfect companion for a winter game night.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Ultra Games
- Developer
- Electronic Arts
- Genre
- Sports
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game
Ski or Die is a 1990 winter sports game by Electronic Arts for the Amiga, NES, MS-DOS and Commodore 64. It consisted of 5 minigames which could be played individually or in a set sequentially. Up to 6 players could compete against each other via hotseat in 4 of the minigames, and semi-hotseat in 1 of them (up to two players at a time). The sports and activities depicted in the minigames are halfpipe-snowboarding, inflatable sled racing, aerial skiing, downhill skiing and snowball fights. The DOS port featured Roland MT-32, AdLib and beeper music and sound effects and ran at 15 FPS.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplaySki or Die on NES
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Ski or Die
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Ski or Die
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