Tommy Moe's Winter Extreme: Skiing & Snowboarding

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Tommy Moe's Winter Extreme Skiing & Snowboarding
Developer(s)	Loricels
Publisher(s)	Mindscape (Europe) Electro Brain (North America) Pack-in-Video (Japan)
Platform(s)	Super Famicom
Release date	^NA June 1994 ^JP December 16, 1994 as Ski Paradise with Snowboard ^EU April 28, 1994 as Val d'Isere Championship ^[1]
Genre(s)	Sports (skiing & snowboarding)
Mode(s)	Single Player
Rating(s)	n/a (created pre-ESRB)
Media	Cartridge
Input methods	Super Famicom controller

Tommy Moe's Winter Extreme: Skiing & Snowboarding (known in Japan as Ski Paradise with Snowboard (スキーパラダイス WITH スノーボード, Ski Paradise with Snowboard^?)^[2] and in Europe as Val d'Isere Championship) is a Super Famicom winter sports game that uses skiing and snowboarding as extreme sports in either freestyle, training mode, or competition mode. In competition mode, the player has 3 chances before either he or she gets the game over screen. The freestyle mode plays like a video arcade racing game, the training mode allows the player to use any course, and the competition mode is like the Winter Olympic Games. Controls can be modified and the player can either use skis or snowboards. The game is named after legendary skier Tommy Moe.

Conditions can change on the course, which can range from dawn, dusk, darkness, afternoon conditions, even a snowstorm. Once the player reaches the bottom of the hill in freestyle mode, either he or she must use the ski lift in order to climb to the top of the next mountain. There are less than 70 seconds to get to the next checkpoint. The fastest speed that snowboards can go is 66 miles per hour on hilly terrain and 88 miles per hour on flat terrain. These factors make them ⅓ as fast as NASCAR stock cars. A password allows players to continue their saved progress as they explore new regions of the mountain and refine their skiing or snowboarding skills.