C64 Longplay - Summer Games 1+2

[@bufordteejustice1119]

I spent many hours playing this. Really brings me back.

[@Johnny_Thunder]

These were brilliant games. Jam packed with content, great animations , and fantastic playability.

[@johnwilks8545]

Brings back great memories, thanks for the upload. Just to see that closing ceremony again even makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up 😊

[@montypythonish]

Took me right back to all the wrist and finger pain of button smashing. The frantic twirling to cycle and the pain of miss timing everything. Thanks. It took me right back to my teens. Nostalgia, it's not what it used to be.

[@folbz1862]

Love the old school games....played this for hours!!!

[@sisterjanet4]

Thanks so much for this. I adored this game as a kid and the nostalgia is great! Love the crowd noises!

[@DanielWesleyKCK]

So many joysticks broken to these games. RIP, my friends.

[@chiry3000]

If you remember, Summer games was 1st olimpic videogame without joystick shake control.

[@jerbilkonai5081]

I broke many more in the game decatlon.

[@PieFights]

I know these games I had so many broken Joysticks but we had a lot of spares

[@Cybernaut76]

Not only summer games were a blessing to joystick salesmen. There was also the sex games and perhaps others too.

[@deverhalenbakker]

This game was sponsored by joystick companies. 🤣

[@Ultralightaman]

I remember my older brother had one of the track records nobody could beat. I miss the newness of gaming sometimes.

[@theimortal1974]

are you sure it was a legit record? because either on this version or the apple version if you do pole vault and do no power whatsoever the game for some reason still counts it as making it. that way you can make a world record that nobody can beat without cheating. i wondered if there was anything else like that on other events

[@nuclearjong]

Thank you for doing these longplays. They are very fun to watch. Most of the games you do are so confusing to understand that I could never beat them. You are a unique and amazing game player!

[@hai.1820]

What a great game it was!

[@PieFights]

Epyx music is the theme for Jumpman Jr

[@Martin_Orion]

the opening anthem is just amazing. i wonder if it would ever been used in the actual olympic games history

[@Dehmlack]

Thx for playing the music in the beginning of each event. Triple jump is my all time favourite C64Song, We had a good time with that ole thing... :)

[@creatinotionchannel2680]

Great stuff. Played these games many times in the mid to late 80s

[@raybbj]

Diving was my favourite

[@2PeteShakur]

"The original Summer Games was really popular, and the Epyx marketing department was keen for 'more of the same' with a sequel. As with all games at that time, we started with a brainstorm to choose the events. I got cycling and rowing, and I remember getting loads of grief about the way the wheels looked in the cycling event. The marketing guys kept saying to me, 'The wheels look way too pixellated; they don't look round - can you fix that?' I had the hardest time explaining to them why they were like that." -- Chuck Sommerville, designer and programmer [Summer Games 2 - C64]

[@00Skyfox]

In Summer Games 1, long ago I accidentally discovered that for the pole vault, with a low pole grip and the bar at the highest setting I could actually vault _under_ the bar and it counted as a successful vault!

[@tdrewman]

I was thinking the same thing. I remember getting home in 8th grade and playing this all day long .

[@jatekpartizan]

Haha. I remember at Plattform Diving I was always doing a joystick rampage and ended up with pity points from the judges :P That was hard to achievegood score

[@greekretrogamer4355]

All of my family's friends was gathered in our house to play Summer games on C64. And I was there to remind them who is the boss ...

[@DerSchmu]

I used the PAL-version from Summer Games. Mostly the european version works a bit slower than the NTSC-version `cause the difference in the 50/60 Hz-norm.

[@Simon0]

this was so awesome. i used to play it with my brother. we would choose 4 players each..

[@hercufles]

Good memories used to play this at my uncles home till he banned those game since they were joystick breakers

[@Simon0]

@grillmeasteak times have sure changed! nowadays you just look up anything you want on the internet. But in those days you had you work it out yourself!

[@SimsMoyal]

some of the events i didn't even know how to play

[@DeadRaymanWalking]

Dang, that pole jump on Summer Games was a PITA just as much as the pole jump in Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular.

[@RudyPipich]

Wore out my joysticks on these games!

[@carpii]

loved the epyx games, such high quality. Cant believe how good you are at skeet shooting 😳

[@PunkSlapper123]

Skeet shooting was easy. If you did it one time you could easily do it again.

[@jatekpartizan]

Btw, some things might look easy for todays kids, but all of this had to be done with a joystick. That's was really challenging

[@zagor1974]

26:05 a 10.0 for that jump? ;)

[@tim_nj_devil176]

the game was weird like that. If you did a crazy joystick sequence, it gave you a higher score; similarly, in Winter Games, in the event "Hot Dog", you got a 10.0 if you did a crazy jump.

[@lordreis]

Aaaaaaaah, those good old joystick-killers...

[@Simon0]

@nuclearjong i agree. Derschmu is my hero. Well.. ONE of my heros.

[@loneshewolf74]

If I had this game I'd want to play every country just to hear their national anthem. ^_^

[@ianfeuerhake1859]

We could never get the hang of cycling

[@Simon0]

you broke 100 metres on the javelin! good job.

[@StormShadow1500]

You guys rock!

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

Very good. If both Summer Games 1 and 2 are together for NES and Sega Master System, that should have happened since 1985 or 1986 as common sense I thought long time ago.

[@thomasheinlein3120]

Does anyone know what the highest height in pole vault that the game makers would allow to be cleared?. I've gotten over 5.90 but never over 6.0. By the way, I am asking without the cheat of going under the bar. Also, what's the furthest triple jump ever? I can do 17.55 in my sleep, but never 17.60

[@OptimusSubtimum]

Graphics performance was way beyond the same class computers.

[@theimortal1974]

i remember playing this game. and either this version or the apple version there is a cheat in the pole vault. if you launch with no power at all the game will count it as a victory and easily get a super world record that anybody legit will never beat.

[@PieFights]

Randy Glover also did for EYPX Juman Jr

[@Im_underground_420]

The world records didn't save when playing both games at once on my c64 version.

[@williampenarosado9285]

1:55

[@DELC1]

thanks for the longplay, but i noticed the music was a little slow. is that because of the recording or what?

[@rswan5]

23:10 - 23:13 OUCH!

[@magicmulder]

IIRC my mates and me had records around 17.85m (triple jump), 26.5s (rowing), 2.45m (high jump), 6.00m (pole vault), 101.76m (javelin) and 734.xx (diving) - we hated all the other disciplines. :) Most of those were the maximum technically possible. Skeet shooting was the one thing I could play blind.

[@carlossoto3483]

The spanish flag with the eagle.

[@mathloiselle]

A final between ITA and EPX and the crowd cheers for the USA??? Still good games!

[@willlovesgaz]

he he you can tell this was made by epyx - the torch bearer at the beginning is the same sprite as the guy from impossible mission!!! :) :)

[@apersonwhoexist]

23:10

[@countrydawn418]

Very Nice!!!!!!!!

[@slimtig]

We never liked the summer games as much as the winter games. I guess to dad and I it was easier.

[@DaviTails]

I LIKE COMPUTER GAMES

[@drey8]

Anyone else stand up for the national anthems playing this?

[@Oblomov-i1o]

İmagine! 64 kbyte ram only. Nowadays, the file size of a font is bigger.

[@Ulkomaalainen]

I loved the "Games" series - but fencing was really annoying when you had 5 people around and everybody had to go against everybody else...

[@Simon0]

fencing takes forever. I always skipped it. especially when you have 8 players (which me and my brother did cause we used to choose 4 players each).

[@PunkSlapper123]

Fencing sucked. I wasn't big at all on Summer Games 2. I liked the original much better.

[@johnddoe8646]

Epyx sucks at long jump