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davidnA 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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Date: 2012-07-14 02:04 pm (UTC)I admit that because the events are short I was hoping for a revisit to most of them like you did with the pole vault, but at 24 minutes I suppose that might have been extending it a bit too much. As I said, though, it was fantastic and hilarious, and thank you for doing it.
... I liked the music, though! Although I admit the sound effects were pretty... uh... unique.
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Date: 2012-07-14 05:49 pm (UTC)We played the only game with a more generic title, "World Sports Competition", last night - and it boasts 18 events, but easily nine or ten of them are exactly the same thing - bash buttons as quickly as possible, but not so quickly that you fill a stamina meter up/drain an oxygen meter down.
As for revisiting events... the sad thing about the rings was that I took multiple attempts at it, and that was the most successful one ;) I never worked out how to get him to just... hold on and attempt to move about at all.
Thanks for suggesting it, and I'm glad that you enjoyed my journey through it!