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Did you ever play the ancient winter olympics game?
2006-02-23, 2:43 PM #1
Watching the Torino olympics reminded me of an ancient Commodore game called Winter Games by EA. Why hasn't someone done something similar today with decent graphics and such? With all the events, it's sure to be fun.


Or has it been done already?
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2006-02-23, 3:13 PM #2
...

http://www.olympicvideogames.com/
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2006-02-23, 4:10 PM #3
Chewb, wasn't there also the Summer Games version? I remember playing those on my 386 back in the day! :D
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2006-02-23, 5:06 PM #4
Hehe, Summer Games (didn't have Winter Games) was a great way to **** up your joystick, because you had to bang it alternately left and right to run in the game.
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2006-02-23, 5:10 PM #5
I had both Summer and Winter Games for my Apple IIe...

I used to be an ace at Ski Jump and Hot Dog...
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2006-02-23, 5:36 PM #6
Yeah! I had the summer games too! I must confess, that I liked picking different countries and listening to the music. <.< >.>


Was Hot Dog the barrel jumping? That was fun and hard as crap.
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2006-02-23, 6:08 PM #7
I remember there was once a Nagano N64 game...


...I loved that game.
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2006-02-24, 2:22 AM #8
I remember one on the original GameBoy. It sucked. Just like all Olympics games suck. I mean come on, "tap left and right in a rhythm to make your challenger skate!" is not my idea of fun. And whoever thought including curling in a game was a good idea was out of their mind.

I really don't like them :p
2006-02-24, 6:42 AM #9
I quite liked the Athlete Kings/Decathlon and Winter Heat games on the Saturn, as they didn't take themselves too seriously whilst still offering a button bashing challenge.
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2006-02-24, 2:42 PM #10
You could always win the bobsleigh by never touching the joystick. If you did you crashed.
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2006-02-24, 3:28 PM #11
I remember summer for the Comadore 64. lots of fun and alot of annoyence.

I also remember a SNES game I had that was winter which was prity crapy
mostly sligtly better graphics (than the 64) (bad for the SNES) and more hard as all get out crummy gameplay. but the biatholon was fun.
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2006-02-25, 11:39 AM #12
I want to say I had Winter Games on the ol' IIGS back in the day... though I didn't have a joystick, so I used a keyboard. Years later I think I ended up with Summer Games, California Games, and World Games on a 386.... nothing like simulating things like hackey sack or caber toss...
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2006-02-25, 1:42 PM #13
Nagano '98 on N64 :shiftyeyes:
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2006-02-25, 4:16 PM #14
The last time I tried playing a winter olympic video game was back in grade school on a color Apple IIe. Good times.
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2006-02-25, 7:26 PM #15
Originally posted by Ric_Olie:
...

http://www.olympicvideogames.com/


Does it have curling?
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2006-02-25, 7:34 PM #16
I can't tell. I don't know why not. It would be the easiest to code/produce.
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2006-02-25, 7:52 PM #17
I played one on gamecube. Apparently, button mashing equaled athletic ability. Curling was funnest:/

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