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Games - Olympic videogames

"Olympic" videogames is the usual name given to sports video games including more than one event of several sports. They are one of the older video game genres, having its first hit with the 1983 arcade classic Track & Field. Since then, several titles were released, usually in a six-month time before the Olympic Games the game was expected to cather. Official IOC licenses became a norm since the first official game, Olympic Gold, released in time for the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Companies like Epyx
, Accolade, U.S. Gold
and Konami
developed some of the best games in this genre, that is usually sidelooked by the gaming industry and considered few more than novelty or memorabilia. Gameplay is the common target for detractors, since it usually consists of the button mashing formula used in Track & Field.

However, since they are released in regular periods of time, they can be used as a way to compare how graphics evolved: from the CGA graphics of the first Epyx titles to the 3D graphics of Athens 2004.

Official games

  • Barcelona 1992 - Olympic Gold by US Gold
  • Lillehammer 1994 - Winter Olympics: Lillehammer 94 by US Gold
  • Atlanta 1996 - Olympic Summer Games (16-bit) and Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996 (32 bit) by US Gold
  • Nagano 1998 - Nagano Winter Olympics '98 by Konami
  • Sydney 2000 - Sydney 2000 by ATD
  • Salt Lake City 2002 - Salt Lake 2002 by ATD
  • Athens 2004 - Athens 2004 by Eurocom Entertainment Software
  • Turin 2006 - Torino 2006 by 2K Sports

Not official

  • Microsoft Decathlon by Microsoft
  • Winter Games by Epyx
  • Summer Games (I and II) by Epyx
  • The Games: Winter Edition by Epyx
  • The Games: Summer Edition by Epyx
    (Official Game of the USOC for the 1988 Summer Olympics)
  • The Games: Summer Challenge by Accolade
  • The Games: Winter Challenge by Accolade
  • Track & Field series by Konami

Games on other genres with another Olympic related license

  • Team USA Basketball
    , released for the Barcelona 1992 Basketball tournament with a USOC license
  • Olympic Soccer, released for the Atlanta 1996 football tournament
  • Izzy's Quest For The Olympic Rings, platformer based on Atlanta Games' mascot
  • Actua Ice Hockey
    , released for the Nagano 1998 ice hockey tournament

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Olympic videogames ]


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