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The Games: Winter Challenge

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Not to be confused with The Games: Winter Edition.

The Games: Winter Challenge
The Games: Winter Challenge cover
Developers
MindSpan
Publishers
Retail Accolade
Digital Piko Interactive
Release dates
DOS 1991
Windows (DOSBox) July 31, 2020[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) July 31, 2020[1]
Linux (DOSBox) July 31, 2020[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Genres Sports
Sports Mixed sports
Series The Games
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The Games: Winter Challenge on Wikipedia
The Games
The Games: Winter Challenge 1991
Summer Challenge 1992

The Games: Winter Challenge is a singleplayer and multiplayer sports game in the The Games series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Bundled with Summer Challenge. Prepackaged with DOSBox.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\*.WGL
<path-to-game>\*.RP?
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
The *.WGL files hold tournament data and *.RP? are saved instant replays.
The default save game path can be changed.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

General options.
General options.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and Sound Effects can be toggled.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
This game supports the Roland MT-32 and LAPC-1 for music.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
10 Hot seat
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes Tandy/PCjr, EGA, MCGA, VGA

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 286
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Tandy/PCjr, EGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.11
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compatible
256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.

References