Every child that is eye grow in the 80 years and has owned a home computer will know the "Games" series made by Epyx. SUMMER GAMES I & II, WINTER GAMES, CALIFORNIA GAMES were absolute fun grenades, which are expected to have their Rüttelsteuerung thousands of joysticks on their conscience, while with Friends pay unexpected multiplayer delights were. From this series, I personally liked the still relatively obscure part of WORLD GAMES best. Sure, the two Summer Games, the leading (and combined) were, and WINTER GAMES you had to have for the first time feel at all real control over what happens on the screen. But with WORLD GAMES got the right character for the first series.
There were several reasons. First, was due to the sometimes bizarre discipline selection, all of which offered certain "sports" types of various countries from around the world. In addition to quasi-Olympic events like slalom skiing, weight lifting and sumo wrestling are so bizarre sections of tree trunk-balancing, Wide tree-throwing and cliff jumping. This caused a different and varied settings. Another reason why I particularly liked was the WORLD GAMES black humor (as when one was thrown from a wrong tree rammed into the ground) and the many little details that gave the game a real soul.
"I'm lumberjack and I'm fine. On the day I unpacked the workaholic ..." effect from today's perspective the game a bit antiquated, but the latest sports games such as MARIO AND SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES are actually even more complex. Optional keyboard or joystick (the latter is recommended heat) you control his athletic alter ego. For each discipline, it is important to learn a different sequence of movements and adjust the game situation. In practice, this looks mostly like that one frantically rips the stick from side to side, now and then presses a button and in the end depend on the mercy of the judges is.
makes Technically the game, which in 1987 saw the light of day ago, from today's perspective, of course, not all that much. Especially the 8-bit versions (the C64 version is currently on the Wii Virtual Console downloadable) seem a bit crude. In contrast, like the 16-bitter with higher resolution graphics and beautiful details. The ultimate in my eyes Version for the Apple IIgs, which joins the graphics of an Amiga a great sound with catchy soundtrack.
looks very stable the ground is not so ... But the gameplay is anything but dusty. Especially with one or more players unfolds WORLD GAMES its full effect. If the player (unfortunately only one by one) line up for sporting competition, while racking a race, comes to mood. But even solo players are motivated many thanks to breaking records, which increases the replay value significantly, although there is no contemporary content that can only be released to play, and you therefore to a complete cycle has actually seen all that has to offer WORLD GAMES.
Most gamers call CALIFORNIA GAMES, when they swarm in the nostalgic feelings of Epyx 'classic series. I remain in my opinion, that WORLD GAMES - behind WINTER GAMES - has earned the pole position. 22 years have passed since the first publication, and still knows the game to please full. Fans of the current Olympic sports games will appreciate this great-ancestors know and play today enthusiastically. All others should at least look a look to see that it took two decades ago no online FPS or MMORPG to be with friends in front of a computer monitor have fun.
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