Nagano Winter Olympics '98


Nagano Winter Olympics '98, known in Japan as Hyper Olympics in Nagano, is a multi-event sports game from Konami. It is based on the 1998 Winter Olympics and features 10 Olympic events including skating, skiing, luge, bobsleigh, slalom, curling, halfpipe and snowboarding. It's part of the Track & Field/Hyper Sports series.

Gameplay

There are two modes of play, Olympic and Championship. In the Olympic Mode, the player selects an event and competes in order to win the gold medal. In championship, the player competes in seven events, with points being awarded for performance in each event. The athlete with the most points at the end wins gold.

Events

There is a total of 16 playable countries per version of the game. They are:
Both the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 versions of the game were developed by Konami's Japanese branch, but by different divisions of it.

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PlayStation version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "Nagano Winter Olympics is a mixed bag. The graphics and sounds are great, and about half of the events are dead on, but the rest rarely rise above mediocrity. All multi-event discs have clunkers, though, and the fun delivered by the other events makes this game worth a look in the end."
Nagano Winter Olympics '98 received "unfavorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.