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California Games
California Games, developed by Epyx and published by US Gold in 1987.
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Player's Review
"Now the Summer will surely last forever! The smell of the surf, the sun on your back, the sand between your toes... This isn't California Dreamin' this is for real! Six of the best West Coast sports designed to set your pulse racing! Wow your friends with your incredible flying skate board feats; or show your cool hacking at the sack.
Skate down the boardwalk, flip the Frisbee" and wheelie the BMX. And then the ultimate test the King of Californian sports shooting the curl as you battle with those giant Pacific rollers to decide which surfer truly rules the waves! You'll be playing for big name sponsors like Pacer Skateboards, Ocean Pacific, RAD Mag, Frisbee, Hacky Sack*, Morey Boogie, Burton, Snowboards and Bluebird®. California Games TM features superb graphics, all the atmosphere of the West Coast, and one to eight players can take part. All the quality you expect from a Epyx product is here and so much more. So get air. Go crazy. Welcome to a new state of intensity. Get ready to surf, skateboard on the half pipe, bike BMX-style, kick-back with a foot bag, roller skate and fling the flying disc. Compete on California's beaches, parks, and its rough and tumbly desert turf.
'The Games' series from Epyx are probably amongst the most well known games on the C64 as every owner likely encountered them at some point through their numerous re-releases, cover tape releases and forms part of the games package that get included on modern day retro console releases. They may also be considered a marmite game in that whilst the game look great and are overall well presented, they can be very fiddly to play with some events having odd controls and timing is everything. Competing games, as fun as they were are not really in the same class and generally relied on frantic wiggle mechanics.
The game is best played as a group in multiplayer, actual competition. For the longplay however, it is just me. That makes it a little boring but prevents the video being dragged out to long. I don't play particularly well but I do try to get a reasonable score. The controls and input latency are what I'm mostly up against. In each events, I do try to show some fails where extra attempts are available.
The final release from Epyx in The Games series. California Games steps up its presentation entirely with only the general layout of the original Sumer Games remaining. Some great Eighties beach themed gfx and events and just in case there was a danger that the game could be too much fun to play, epyx made sure to add back annoying event control schemes. Surfing might be weakest event here as there is no visual feedback if what you are doing is scoring and trying to do anything usually leads to a washout.
Skate down the boardwalk, flip the Frisbee" and wheelie the BMX. And then the ultimate test the King of Californian sports shooting the curl as you battle with those giant Pacific rollers to decide which surfer truly rules the waves! You'll be playing for big name sponsors like Pacer Skateboards, Ocean Pacific, RAD Mag, Frisbee, Hacky Sack*, Morey Boogie, Burton, Snowboards and Bluebird®. California Games TM features superb graphics, all the atmosphere of the West Coast, and one to eight players can take part. All the quality you expect from a Epyx product is here and so much more. So get air. Go crazy. Welcome to a new state of intensity. Get ready to surf, skateboard on the half pipe, bike BMX-style, kick-back with a foot bag, roller skate and fling the flying disc. Compete on California's beaches, parks, and its rough and tumbly desert turf.
'The Games' series from Epyx are probably amongst the most well known games on the C64 as every owner likely encountered them at some point through their numerous re-releases, cover tape releases and forms part of the games package that get included on modern day retro console releases. They may also be considered a marmite game in that whilst the game look great and are overall well presented, they can be very fiddly to play with some events having odd controls and timing is everything. Competing games, as fun as they were are not really in the same class and generally relied on frantic wiggle mechanics.
The game is best played as a group in multiplayer, actual competition. For the longplay however, it is just me. That makes it a little boring but prevents the video being dragged out to long. I don't play particularly well but I do try to get a reasonable score. The controls and input latency are what I'm mostly up against. In each events, I do try to show some fails where extra attempts are available.
The final release from Epyx in The Games series. California Games steps up its presentation entirely with only the general layout of the original Sumer Games remaining. Some great Eighties beach themed gfx and events and just in case there was a danger that the game could be too much fun to play, epyx made sure to add back annoying event control schemes. Surfing might be weakest event here as there is no visual feedback if what you are doing is scoring and trying to do anything usually leads to a washout.
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