[6] Info rated Winter Games four-plus stars out of five, stating that each event was good enough to be sold separately, and concluding that it was "sports simulation at its best!".

Lemon64 website users have given average vote of 8.6 which places the game on top 20 list on the site.

The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #132 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.

[9] However, the NES and Famicom Disk System versions were critically panned for unresponsive controls, abysmal music and poor graphics.

The magazine wrote that though the games had great graphics for their time, their most defining qualities were their competitive multiplayer modes and "level of control that has yet to be equaled".