at the race you duck with both the "Regular" and the "Goofy" with "down+fire" (for tunnels and high barrier) and you jump with "up+fire" (required for most of the obstacles). But beware: With pressed fire button, the controls are identical in both modes, e.g. Left and right are swapped, speeding up is now "up", braking is "down". When choosing Goofy Foot on the other hand, you control from the Skater's perspective. The difference is best explained like this: When choosing Regular Foot you control from the view as you look on the screen, so left is "left", "down" speeds up, "up" is to brake. In the Downhill disciplines (Jam and Race) every player is asked if he prefers "Regular" or "Goofy Foot" as controls. PAL users interested in the difference might want to listen to the HVSC-SID file linked in the upper right with a SID player, to hear the music at NTSC speed. Since an NTSC C64 is slightly faster clocked than a PAL system established in Europe, the Skate-or-Die! music runs noticably slower on PAL systems. Moreover, Electronic Arts - being a US company - created the game for the American market, which means for NTSC-Standard. Note for people interested in sound: The unique, sappy guitar samples in the title screen illustrate that the newer 8580 SID chips (without modifications/SID hack) are not capable of playing certain tunes - especially those including digis - designed for the 6581 series. So you have to suffer a little to enjoy all the many details such as detailedly animated and all in all very freaky sprites, soft scrolling at the downhill disciplines or also many saucy words. Unfortunately, all this high quality performance of every single discipline each of which has own animations and an own ingame music in two voices (one voice stayed reserved for the FX) resulted in extremely long loading and various disk flippings. And unlike many other games with fancy title music and graphics, the quality of graphics and sound stay at a very high quality throughout the game, from the skate shop to the single disciplines. The title screen and music by Rob Hubbard caused some jaw-dropping right at the beginning. The audiovisual design at that time left only little to be desired and used the possibilities of the C64 very well. Both the hunter and hunted player can delay the re-entering of the pool at the rim by moving the joystick in the direction of the pool edge. To "paddle someone", the player that carries the paddle has to press the fire button at the right moment. If the hunted player avoids the paddle skillfully five times, he will receive the paddle. Then you skate out of the shop and choose if you want to play all disciplines or single disciplines (or practice if "Go Practice" is selected).ĥth discipline: Pool Joust In this rather violent discipline one of the competitors is always equipped with a kind of paddle for five turns through the pool, trying to know the opponent from his skateboard. All players can enter their names via the "Sign-Up" function with the keyboard and then choose the colour of their board, except for black all colours of the C64 are available. Before the start of the game, the game settings need to be selected in the skate shop. The game offers the possibility to compete in up to five disciplines either alone against three computer opponents (with different strengths) or against up to seven more human players.
#Ski or die 2 full#
So the company Electronic Arts was full in line with the trend at the end of 1987 when releasing Skate or Die!. They're both fun and addictive, with excellent controls, although not up to par with Epyx games.Skating was very hip in the 80s for the youth. Each of these games features 6 mini-games, ranging from the well-known (skate & ski racing) to some pleasant surprises (skating ring competition & snowball fights). Review 2: Skate or Die and Ski or Die are collections of cool mini-action games with tournament mode, not unlike Epyx' "Games" series. Challenge your dad into a game of snowball fighting, snowboarding or tube racing and win! Unless they start playing themselves, because this is a game for the young and the old. It's a very good game with great fun aspects, kids will get a laugh and some challenge, their parents will get a few months of rest. It's always been rather known and I think I really know why that is. With a nice multiplayer mode and very nice sports to perform, this game is actually one that may have caught you playing alot, a few years ago. Downhill skiing, snowboarding, snowball fighting and more! You will have to train very hard and later on, you can challenge your friends to beat you. Review 1: This game actually is a collection of a few wintersports.
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