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Given the limited capabilities of the early consoles, almost any individual sport found its way onto the major systems, to make up for the lack of quality team sports games.  This weeks random pick came up with just such a game -- Magnavoxs Alpine Skiing for the Odyssey^2, a downhill contest with some odd technical characteristics, published in 1979.

The 2-kilobyte cartridge supports two players, and ONLY two players, as was often the case with the early games.  The game appears to be a split-screen affair -- theres no dividing line, but each players side of the screen scrolls independently.  There are three different events available -- Downhill (following a prescribed track), Slalom (skiing through the flagged gates) and Giant Slalom (a longer version of Slalom) -- but they all control and play very much the same.  The goal is to get through the course as accurately and quickly as possible.


Pushing the action button accelerates the players descent, and skiing side to side is slower than shooting straight down.  Colliding with a tree (even the slalom gates are marked with trees, not flags) costs the player some recovery time.  The skiing figures are fairly detailed, with quite a few animation frames, and for a pleasant change are not the standard little Odyssey^2 men available from the systems built-in ROM library.  But theres nothing particularly Alpine about this Skiing -- the solid white background is unbroken by anything but the trees, and this could just as easily be Existential Void Skiing.

Some strangeness occurs because the Odyssey^2 cant really handle a split-screen display, and so either player can ski out of bounds to the other side of the invisible (and non-existent) split, while the scrolling maintains the appropriate rate on the players original side of the screen.  This tends to look very odd if the players are skiing at different speeds, or one is not moving at all, and it completely destroys any illusion that were looking at unique perspectives.  The timer stops when a player goes out of bounds, and no points are earned while gates are missed, but its fun to goof around this way -- probably more fun than playing the game legitimately.  Was it that difficult to limit the players horizontal movement?


Anyway, whether we attempt to ski properly or just have fun tumbling down the hill, bruising our kneecaps and harassing our opponent by refusing to scroll at the same speed as the hill, like some kind of skiing phantom thats a phantom on skis, eventually we reach the end of the course.  Even if we dont have a human opponent, we can try to beat our own personal best time, which always seems like a lame substitute for actual gameplay.


And thats about all there is to Alpine Skiing.  Its another of those vintage games that reminds us that $20 or $30 buys a lot more gaming entertainment today than it did during the "golden age."

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The Vantage is just one of 10 all-new cars introduced in Midtown Madness 2 that complement those accessible from the original game. The vehicles used in Midtown Madness 2 range from the speedy Austin Mini to a huge fire truck.

Midtown Madness 2 utilizes new physics layered on top of the original engine, introducing new moves such as power slides and hand brake turns. The damage modeling for Midtown Madness 2 has been improved as well, adding parts that actually break away and detailed damage to the vehicles.

One new mode added to the sequel is the crash-course mission that challenges players to perform a wide-variety of tricky tasks. Each mission challenges drivers current skills and requires the learning of new ones. From here, players can also unlock races and cars as well as find a load of funny in-game secrets.

Midtown Madness 2 features the same racing modes as the original: Blitz, Checkpoint, Circuit, Cruise and Multiplayer Capture the Gold.

The game is fully optimized for Internet or LAN play and allows up to eight players to compete simultaneously. Players can connect via the Microsoft gaming zone or directly via IP.

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2. Run the setup.exe in the main directory
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Install Notes:
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