The Games - Winter Edition is the follower of Winter Games. Epyx has chosen a new selection of events. Some events were already available in Winter Games, while others are new in The Games. Together with the Winter Games is The Games a nice collection of Olympic disciplines. As it was common with sports games of that time, there are some disciplines that call on the player to destroy the joystick by jolting it too much.
The game is designed for up to 8 players. The players receive points for successfully ending a discipline. For each gold medal you get 5 points, for each silver medal 3 points and one point for each bronze medal. The player with the most points wins the game.
Epyx has secured a license from the Olympic Commitee of the United States for The Games - Winter Edition and The Games - Summer Edition.
The disciplines are partially divided into several sections in which the player has to do another action with the joystick.
It pains me give this game a thumbs down as I loved the old Epyx 1984 Summer Games which I use to play on my Commodore 128 for hours each week. There was also Winter Games in 1984 followed by Summer Games II in 1985 by Epyx. Then The Games: Winter Edition and The Games: Summer edition were released in 1988 which I actually never played during that time....
Fun, but not as good as the C64 version
I had the Commodore 64 version of both Winter and Summer Games growing up. Flawed, unintuitive, but still addicting and fun. Probably had a huge impact on my love of the Olympic Games.
This version lacks some of the complexity of the C64 events, such as no Heart Rate monitor on the Cross Country. Lacks some events,...
This is not playable at all. It runs way too fast and does not recognize controller inputs. The keyboard almost works, but not all the time.
