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

[kjorteo]

That was amazing. It was almost half an hour but thoroughly entertaining throughout and absolutely worth it--well done. :) There are so many things I could say about basically everything, but for now, I'll just say that I anxiously await your review of LucasArts' adventure classic Day of the Flipper.

[davidn]

I am very glad that you and everyone else enjoy these so much :) Less so that you can hear my mistakes and then transpose flippers and tentacles whenever you talk to me for many years to come!