Ski or Die (NES)

Ski or Die

Platform: NES Year: 1991 Developer: Konami Industry Co., Ltd. Buy: Amazon

Ski or Die is a winter-themed extreme sports game in which the player can compete 5 different mini games:

• Acro Aerials: Ski down a ramp and score points by performing acrobatic jumps.
• Downhill Blitz: Downhill skiing event in which the player can make large jumps over chasms and perform stunts in the moguls section.
• Snowboard Half-Pipe: Put on your snowboard and score as much points as possible in a limited amount of time by performing tricks inside a half-pipe.
• Snowball Blast: First person snowball fight. Score points by taking out little that attack your snow fortress.
• Inner-Tube Trash: Two players descend a mountain in innertubes. Score points by picking up items, perforating your opponents tire with a knife or fork and finishing first.

Practice a single event or try the tournament. The NES version was all done by legendary Japanese developer Konami, who were also responsible for porting the original Skate or Die to the NES.

Screenshots

The title screen

Music

Jun Funahashi of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Tiny Toon Adventures fame did a good job writing the music. He used an assembly processor to implement it into Konami's NES sound driver. In fact, he created his digitized voices, and he arranged four of Rob Hubbard's main tunes from the computer versions, plus five of them were new tracks.

Recording

There are issues with the timing of this recording.

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Title Screen	Rob Hubbard	Jun Funahashi	3:00		Download
02	Press Start Key	Jun Funahashi	Jun Funahashi	0:04		Download
03	Rodney's Ski Shop	Jun Funahashi	Jun Funahashi	3:00		Download
04	Chosen Event	Jun Funahashi	Jun Funahashi	0:06		Download
05	Downhill Blitz	Rob Hubbard	Jun Funahashi	3:00		Download
06	Snowboard Halfpipe	Rob Hubbard	Jun Funahashi	3:00		Download
07	Inner-Tube Trash	Rob Hubbard	Jun Funahashi	3:00		Download
08	You Won!	Jun Funahashi	Jun Funahashi	0:06		Download
09	High Scores Board	Jun Funahashi	Jun Funahashi	3:00		Download

Credits

• Ripper: Zophar's Domain
• Recorder: ?
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Rob Hubbard
  • Not Credited Composer/Arranger: Jun Funahashi

(Source: European Commodore box, Verification from composer; Game lacks credits.)

Like most other Konami titles for the NES, the game lacked credits, but some of Konami's games had a credits scroll.

Game Rip

This rip is missing songs.

Format	Download

Ripping NES music is an arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site.

Releases

USA Title: Ski or Die Platform: NES Released: 1991-02-?? Publisher: Ultra Games     EU Title: Ski or Die Platform: NES Released: 1991-10-24 Publisher: Palcom