5 Cool Games To Help You Forget The Heat

Too hot and bothered to get up off the couch but sick of sitting there with drops of sweat slowly dripping down your back? Check out five classic video games that’ll take you a world away from the sticky heat…

D2

A bizarre survival horror title from the Dreamcast days, here you play hot-like-an-office-worker Laura who’s been dumped in the snowy wastelands of a fantasy world called ‘Canada’. Which just happens to be ravaged by weird beasts who have a predilection for using their tentacles in, er, ‘un-traditional’ ways. Chilly in more ways than one.

1080 Snowboarding

Not just an intricately-crafted snowboard sim for the N64, but a demonstration of some of the most evocative cold weather backdrops to ever find themselves depicted in pixels, from soft powder drifts to glorious beams of early-morning sunlight hitting diamond-solid ice runs.

Pengo

Eight-bit retro action ahoy! Control a red penguin who shunts blocks of ice around a maze to crush the evil Sno-Bees – cooler than a polar bear’s toe-nails, for sure.

Christmas NiGHTS

A festive spin-off of the Sega Saturn’s cult NiGHTS title, here you get to fly through a fantasy world where snow cascades all around and bells ring out in the background. Call it a feel-good, cold weather charmer.

Ice Climber

Don your best chunky parka and clamber up 32 ice-laden mountains populated by sunglass-wearing polar bears in this NES classic. But keep a lookout for that darn yeti!