Stumbling through The Games: Summer Edition

[davidn]

A shockingly long time ago, I talked about a game that I had on the PC called The Games: Winter Edition. I remember enjoying it when I first played it in school, but when I went back to it, it became a worrying indicator that I might be allowing nostalgia to cloud the simple fact that I was actually just amused by any old rubbish.

It wasn't the only backwards-titled sports game around - there was a counterpart to it called The Games: Summer Edition, and this is what rakarr suggested I play in the spirit of the upcoming Olympics in London. (I imagine that the game avoids all mention of the Games' actual title in order to avoid having to pay lots and lots of money for using their name and logo - though I accidentally mention the word throughout the video anyway.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HBS-kyfOg

As a PC owner, I was always rather jealous of the superior graphics and sound that games always seemed to have on the Amiga - though I now realize how much they paid for that in disk-swapping and loading times. This game takes care of the 'sound' aspect by scoring the game with a series of what sounds like people banging chairs together, though I think that this might be at least half the fault of the emulator/recording setup. As to whether I think the superior graphics of this version make it a better game than the experimental joystick-waggling extravaganza that I owned in the 90s... you can make that judgement for yourself.

The game has eight events, none of which I'm much good at.

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Oh, shoot -- I get the 'proceed' thing now XD Yes, one athlete running exhaustedly from event to event, briefly changing into drag for the uneven bars... :D

Ohhhh, Our Country Reeks Of Trees (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x79zxf_ren-stimpy-the-royal-canadian-kilte_shortfilms)! Yes, I know it. :D Geez, how weird that it turned out that way... maybe it only recorded the left or right audio channel or something? (If MODs are anything to go by, I think amiga only had hard stereo...) Man, I wonder what else didn't sound the same :S
Anyway, yeah -- I can totally hear the rhythm in that counterpoint now :)

actually, do you still have the feed from the game in an uncompressed format? I might like to make a GIF of that shotputter XD;

[davidn]

Strange as it is for me to imagine that this might be the context in which this song is most familiar to someone... yes. It's especially odd because I didn't think the rest of the music was... actually, yes, I did think the rest of the music was that bad. But other pieces of music weren't noticeably affected by the phenomenon between game and recording, is what I mean.

I do have the feed from that section of the game! Though it's in a very uncompressed 300MB - would you like any bit in particular?