Professional Ski Simulator

Spectrum 48k

"Yet another brilliant Codemasters simulator. The best skiing game yet. Experience the spills and thrills of the downhill racer. All the excitement, but, you won't need an ambulance when you crash! Same authors as Grand Prix."

So many games in the Simulator series and almost the first thing you think about hearing the name, Codemasters. This one is simulating .. skiing. Seven levels of downhill skiing against the cpu opponent. It's all very blue and can be difficult to see where the downhill slopes are in this side on 3d environment. The overhead on the right doesnt really help much. The controls are not great and involves a fair bit of button mashing to get your player moving. Then when you finally make it to a slops, you need to hold button and steer left n right to keep speed up. There are plenty of falls along the way but the most annoying thing is the screen scrolling which you can get ahead of or left behind by. There is a time limit that you have to finish within to continue to the next stage.

Overall, it's one of those games you load once out of curiosity and never again, especially as part of a quattro collection which likely has some other better games on it.