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Winter Gold

Winter Gold is a Super Nintendo game released in 1996. A North American version was planned under the name FX Skiing, but was not released.

The game uses a similar graphic technique to the Amiga demo State of the Art, and they share a programmer, Paul Endresen (AKA: Lone Starr). The developer, Funcom, was founded by, and hired many people from the the European demo scenes.
The menu background copies the 'dancing girl' motif found in State of the Art, made by tracing pre-recorded video with vectors. The racing graphics use the same technique, though the traced video in these cases was originally 3-D. It's one of the most interesting looking SNES games: the graphics look like a jumbley PlayStation game, and the sparse, considered use of colour and lighting recall Mirror's Edge. Effectively the game just sprites on a streaming background (though one created in real-time–as incredible and contradictory as real-time and streaming seem to be) but feels much more alive than that.

Credits

source: ASSEMblergames (credits retrieved from ROM) & Youtube.
The credits listed on Wikipedia and MobyGames are less complete.

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EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ANTHONY HARMAN ERIK GL_ERSEN
PRODUCER BRIAN ULLRICH
DIRECTOR HENNING ROKLING
ADDITIONAL DESIGN KEN LOBB JOSEPH BAYNE
MAIN PROGRAMMER OLAV M_RKRID
MAIN MODELLER RUNE SPAANS
MODELLERS DENNIS HANSEN DANIEL STAVER
POLYGON PROGRAMMERS PAUL ENDRE ENDRESEN STEINAR MIDTSKOGEN
GAME PROGRAMMERS JOAKIM J^NSSON FRANK STEVENSON
TOOLS ANDRE JOHANSEN STEIN PEDERSEN
MUSIC AND SOUND JEROEN TEL OF MANIACS OF NOISE
CLEANUP ARTISTS TOM T GJERDE ODD RUNE HANSEN
CLEANUP ARTISTS JACK KRISTOFFERSEN DAGFINN M_RKRID
DANCING JANNICKE S OLSEN
SPECIAL THANKS MIKE FUKUDA MIKE KELBAUGH RICH RICHARDSON CHRIS NEEDHAM
SPECIAL THANKS ERICH WAAS STACEY PETERSON SCOTT STINSON JEFF BAFUS
SPECIAL THANKS GREG RICHARDSON ISAAC MARSHALL HENRY STERCHI
SPECIAL THANKS HENNING SOLBERG ALF YNGVE MARIA M_RKRID _YSTEIN ANDERSEN

Winter Gold

Credits

See also