Play ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 Online

ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 came out for the Game Boy Advance in 2002, published by Konami. It was one of those sports compilations that tried to cover a lot of ground on a handheld, fitting right in with the era's appetite for portable multiplayer and quick events. You got a handful of winter events to play through, which was pretty standard for the time.

You control an athlete across several disciplines, like ski jumping, halfpipe snowboarding, and figure skating. The main objective is to post high scores or beat opponents by executing maneuvers with careful timing. For tricks in the halfpipe, you build momentum with repeated turns and then launch off the ramp to input directional combinations. In figure skating, you match on-screen prompts in rhythm, almost like a simplified music game. The controls can feel a bit stiff and the physics are unforgiving, which makes consistent performance a real challenge. It captures that specific, slightly rough feel of early sports games on the GBA, where every success feels earned through repetition.