''Downhill Challenge'' is a skiing video game developed by
Microïds
Microids (formerly Microïds) is a French video game developer and publisher based in Paris. Founded in 1985 by Elliot Grassiano, it attained early success with games published through Loriciel in France and other partners (including Activisio ...
. It was published 1988 in the US by
Broderbund
Broderbund Software, Inc. (stylized as Brøderbund) was an American maker of video games, educational software, and productivity tools. Broderbund is best known for the 8-bit video game hits '' Choplifter'', '' Lode Runner'', '' Karateka'', and ...
and in France by
Loriciel
Loriciel (also sometimes Loriciels) was a French video game developing company that was active from 1983 to the early 1990s. The name is a combination of ''logiciel'', the French word for software, and ''Oric'', the first computer they wrote so ...
as ''Super Ski''. In the UK it had an
Eddie the Eagle
Michael David Edwards (born 5 December 1963), better known as Eddie the Eagle, is an English ski jumper and Olympian who in 1988 became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping, finishing last in the Normal Hil ...
license. The third-person,
2.5D game has 4 modes: Downhill, Slalom, Giant Slalom and Ski Jump. It can be played up to 5 players taking turns with their results compared at the end.
Reviews
*''
Jeux & Stratégie'' #50 (as "Super Ski")
See also
*
List of Microids games
References
External links
Microïds Official website*
1988 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Apple IIGS games
Atari ST games
Broderbund games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Loriciel games
Microïds games
Single-player video games
Skiing video games
Video games developed in France
ZX Spectrum games
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