My PC joystick had a rapid fire mode, and if I remember correctly, it was possible to achieve huge jumps leveraging this.

This game and the Summer Olympics had a huge wow factor when arriving to PC gaming - nice memories!

Also, it seems the same graphics engine was further used (and refined?) in baseball games - with the Hardball series. These, of course, had little traction in Europe. How was it in baseball friendly geographies? How did the popularity of the baseball games compare to the Olympics titles?

I have spent countless hours on Ski JUMP in Winter Challenge with my best friend in the days. I still remember that 108.5 was the max jump we were able to achieve

I'm just astounded they achieved those graphics, and had the inspiration to do it too.

I’ll never forget loading the game 20-50 times in an attempt to get the bug that made the license code work. Endlessly loading. Checking the code on the paper wheel. Fail. Do it again. Kids these days will never know that pain.

Impressive work and dedication. I was expecting you to discover a glitch that would easily break the record but sadly the game seems too well made for that. The glitch at the end did look quite promising. I guess we can't really rule out integer overflows for certain, so maybe one day we'll have enough compute to brute force all the combinations.