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14-451: A snow-and-ice themed follow-up to the highly successful Summer Games , Winter Games was released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and later ported to several popular home computers and video game consoles of the 1980s. The game was presented as a virtual multi-sport carnival called the "Epyx Winter Games" (there was no official IOC licensing in place) with up to 8 players each choosing

28-532: A 2.0 out of 5, criticizing the boring events. California Games II California Games II is a sports video game released by Epyx for MS-DOS in 1990. Versions were published for the Amiga , Atari ST , and Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, then the Master System in 1993. This game is a sequel to California Games . An Atari Lynx version was announced and previewed in several magazines but

42-514: A country to represent, and then taking turns competing in various events to try for a medal. The events available vary slightly depending on the platform, but include some or all of the following: The game allows players to compete in all of the events sequentially, choose a few events, choose just one event, or practice an event. Winter Games was ported to the Amiga , Apple II , Atari ST , Apple Macintosh , Apple II GS , Amstrad CPC , ZX Spectrum , and IBM PC computer platforms, and to

56-406: A country to represent, and then taking turns competing in various events to try for a medal. A score of 5:3:1 is used — gold medals 5 points, silver medals 3 points, and bronze medals 1 point. On most versions, world records can be saved to the floppy disk . The Commodore 64 version allows players to link Summer Games and Summer Games II to engage in one large Olympics, accumulating medals in

70-399: A tournament from both games. The events available vary slightly depending on the platform, and include pole vault , platform diving , sprinting , gymnastics , freestyle swimming , and skeet shooting . The game allows the player to compete in all of the events sequentially, choose a few events, choose just one event, or practice an event. The inspiration for Summer Games came from

84-753: The Atari 2600 , Atari 7800 , Nintendo Entertainment System , and the Family Computer Disk System video game consoles. In 2004, it was featured as one of the games on the C64 Direct-to-TV . A Virtual Console version was released in Europe in February 2009. Winter Games was Epyx's best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987. Its sales had surpassed 250,000 copies by November 1989. Info rated Winter Games four-plus stars out of five, stating that each event

98-486: The C64 Direct-to-TV . Summer Games was the first in Epyx's Games series which continued with: Summer Games II , Winter Games , World Games , California Games , California Games II , The Games: Summer Edition , and The Games: Winter Edition. The game is presented as a virtual multi-sport competition called the "Epyx Games" (there was no official IOC licensing in place) with up to eight players each choosing

112-558: The Starpath Supercharger game Sweat! The Decathlon Game . It was inspired by earlier titles like Microsoft 's Olympic Decathlon . While Sweat! was still in development Epyx purchased the ailing Starpath company. Work on the game was halted, because of the video game crash of 1983 . All in-development Supercharger games were canceled and existing Supercharger inventory was liquidated but several developers at Starpath moved to Epyx including Sweat! programmer Scott Nelson. Work

126-573: The Summer Olympic Games . Released in 1984 for the Commodore 64 , it was ported to the Apple II , Atari 2600 , Atari 7800 , Atari 8-bit computers , and Master System . In the UK, the game was first released by Quicksilva and subsequently by U.S. Gold who later created versions for the Amiga , ZX Spectrum , Amstrad CPC and Atari ST for inclusion in compilations. In 2004 it was re-released on

140-413: The "Games" series collectively as number 89 on its "Top 100 Games of All Time". The magazine wrote that though the games had great graphics for their time, their most defining qualities were their competitive multiplayer modes and "level of control that has yet to be equaled". Summer Games (video game) Summer Games is a sports video game developed and published by Epyx based on sports from

154-511: The game 3½ out of 5 stars. The Spectrum version topped the charts for the month of April. However, the NES and Famicom Disk System versions were critically panned for unresponsive controls, abysmal music and poor graphics. The Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed the NES version of the game in December 2009. In it, he calls the game's controls some of the worst in a game ever. In 1996, Next Generation listed

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168-423: The most popular home computer of the mid-1980s. In 1996, Next Generation listed the "Games" series collectively as number 89 on its "Top 100 Games of All Time". The magazine wrote that though the games had great graphics for their time, their most defining qualities were their competitive multiplayer modes and "level of control that has yet to be equaled". In a retrospective review, Atari 7800 Forever gave only

182-490: Was good enough to be sold separately, and concluding that it was "sports simulation at its best!". In 1985, Zzap!64 gave 94% for the game calling it "another classic sport simulation from Epyx". Lemon64 website users have given average vote of 8.6 which places the game on top 20 list on the site. The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #132 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave

196-465: Was started on a new decathlon game for the Commodore 64 named Summer Games . Scott Nelson worked on it and Summer Games II . Epyx sold more than 250,000 copies of Summer Games by November 1989; Ahoy! described it as "tremendously successful". As the first of Epyx's "Games" series, it founded what a historian later described as "the most sustainedly popular in the long life of the Commodore 64",

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