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Stumbling through The Games: Summer Edition
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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
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There were a few moments when I was laughing out loud - mainly at the moments when there was the "you screwed up" animations. I'm surprised that the cycling competition felt so "rigid" compared to the hammer throw where you managed to clonk yourself in the head. XD
If you're going to continue with Amiga games, and would like some *nice* music and sound, you've gotta keep an eye out for "Gods". Oh man, I loved that theme music. Sadly the game has no in-game soundtrack...
Though, now, I'm wanting to dig through some of my ancient C64 games. I have games that no-one else I know of ever played (Kennedy Approach and Paradroid come to mind). Or heck, I could play through that Raid over Moscow (http://tamakun.livejournal.com/1059599.html) game that I reviewed a little while ago...
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The cycling really is the dullest part of the whole game and I almost cut most of it out before uploading the video... for the other events, the sheer range of failure that you can experience borders on unbelievable! At the end, the shark came as a huge shock - it's so strange that they put in such a variety of 'rewards' for not doing what you were supposed to do...
It would be great to feel I'd encouraged more people to upload videos of their games :)