We are still waiting on a suitable Amiga AGA emulator with robust recording features before tackling such games.
Summer Games
Summer Games, developed by Epyx and published by US Gold in 1984.
| 
Screenshot |
Player's Review
"You're an Olympic athlete competing in eight key events at the SUMMER GAMES. How well can you score in track, swimming. diving, shooting, gymnastics and more? So realistic, there's even an opening ceremony and awards presentation after each event.
Unlike other "Olympic-Like" games, SUMMER GAMES has incredible realism, superb state-of-the-art graphics and sound effects, including national anthems from eighteen countries, and true action-strategy game play. In each event you must plan and execute your game strategy in order to maximize your score. It's not just a matter of how fast you can move the joystick. So change into your running shoes, grab your joystick and GO FOR THE GOLD!"
'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.
Overall, for the first game in the series it is not a bad effort for 1984. The opening ceremony alone helps it stand out from other similar games. Most annoying event was probably the first one as I couldn't just do direct to the higher heights and needed to work through them. Gymnastics probably needs the most inputs without much time to do them and the event is over a bit to quickly. I'd have liked at least three attempts to equal all other events.
Unlike other "Olympic-Like" games, SUMMER GAMES has incredible realism, superb state-of-the-art graphics and sound effects, including national anthems from eighteen countries, and true action-strategy game play. In each event you must plan and execute your game strategy in order to maximize your score. It's not just a matter of how fast you can move the joystick. So change into your running shoes, grab your joystick and GO FOR THE GOLD!"
'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.
Overall, for the first game in the series it is not a bad effort for 1984. The opening ceremony alone helps it stand out from other similar games. Most annoying event was probably the first one as I couldn't just do direct to the higher heights and needed to work through them. Gymnastics probably needs the most inputs without much time to do them and the event is over a bit to quickly. I'd have liked at least three attempts to equal all other events.
No Comments have been Posted.