This is one of those beat-the-clock games that gets everybody pushing in for their turn. It works just like real slalom skiing; you manipulate your skier around the gates, trying to clock up the fastest time. Hitting a gate gets you disqualified immediately. But you can get away with knocking a post. You stop the clock by shooting through the finish line - and then it's Franz Klammer's turn.

The blurb tells you there are two games: Slalom (with two degrees of difficulty) and Alps. But Alps merely replaces gates with trees, so why bother? At least the trees really look like trees.

Both games use speed-up and slow-down keys, and you'll need them too as the speed gradually increases as you hurtle along - the keyboard seemed better than joystick for control. Most of the screen is white (not surprising really) so you may need goggles to avoid snow blindness. It's good fun, but for how long?