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]

What made you decide to play the Amiga version? (Or was this one only available for Amiga?)

Your accent is suddenly making me wonder how Commodore ever expected to find any success with people saying that there's a game available for "a meagre computer"...

Clive the Flippered Octopus is hereby the mascot of Stumbling Through. :D

"Door answering" XD

(psst, half music is probably half volume ;p)

How have I never heard the Great Britain national anthem, apparently! (And what flag do they NORMALLY show?)

I was like "my, what a lavish depiction of their parking lot...?", but I guess that was their way of leaving room for the little 3D window :P

Unusually generous choice to have the computer stick around and be as incompetent as the player.... (I wonder if it's a limitation of having it all overlayed on prerendered video like that?)

Did you really not notice the stamina meter that you'd filled up?

"The Archery"... sounds like a band or something..

I love the guy munching in the corner of the stands.... he needs to be in every game, just sitting in the foreground, silently judging you as you try to rescue the princess from Bowser...

(um, it's just silently doing nothing when I try to post this comment, so let me try splitting it in two maybe?)