The World Games - Epyx, C64, (1986) "C64S Emulator for DOS"

World Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx for the Commodore 64 in 1986. Versions for the Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Sega Master System and other contemporary systems were also released. The NES version was released by Milton Bradley, and ported by Rare Ltd..
The game was a continuation in the Epyx sports line that previously released extremely successful titles such as Summer Games and Winter Games.
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[@tapoemt3995]

This was one of my favorite c64 games and completely forgot about it, over time it melted into California games in my mind. Thank you for the memory.

[@jptpoker]

I remember you could fall through the floor in the weightlifting!

[@Simon0]

+John Tyrrell yeah that wouldnt strictly be the persons fault.. more liek the fault of peopel for not making the floor strong enough.

[@Randy1337]

​@@Simon0:)

[@tim_nj_devil176]

13:10 I loved it when the pelican covers its eyes when you hit the ocean floor.

[@tjclarke4604]

I loved this game, great to watch again. I have lived in Canada for almost 50 years, and YES, I have actually seen live log rolling competitions, lol!

[@ThePinkfloydd]

19:43 I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, I sleep all night and I work all day!

[@Randy1337]

[@MrFelis1]

Habe ich auch noch. :D Schön, danke für den Post.

[@EyeForKnowledge.]

Did anyone ever learn how to ride the bull? None of my friends had a clue.

[@Reani75]

Wie kann man so Scheisse bei World Games sein..... *Thumbs Down*

[@thriftweeds]

This was my first play after 30 years! That's why i cannot remember all the tricks and no practice. "Es war mein erstes Spiel nach 30 Jahren! Deshalb kann ich mich nicht an alle Tricks erinnern und keine Übung" - so sorry if the play didnt impress you.

[@Osterochse]

Ich habe es sehr genossen mir die alten Spiele anzusehen. Es ist sehr interessant sich ein bischen mit der Geschichte der Videospiele auseinanderzusetzen. I enjoyed it very much to see these old games. It is quite interesting to get a deeper insight of the history of video games. In particular the animations are nice. It is just remarkable what a handful of sprites consisting of very few pixels are capable of conveying. The cartoonish humourous style of the animations is particularly pleasent. The idea with the shark fin and the log of wood hammering on the poor guy's head for 3 times are just effervescent with charme and playfulness. They show that those games were made to be just plain fun and one would play those games just in order to see all the nice ideas they had for those animations. Daumen hoch - Thumbs up for this video

[@Rothschild1976]

Wie Doi mudda

[@AlexVicarregui]

No shit, the Spanish flag is the Franco's dictatorship, and Franco died in 1975, spain entered democracy in 1978. This game is from 1986! Sooo epic.

[@Vormav-Tingel]

It is amazing what the human brain can remember. I probably played this over 30 years ago, but I still remember every single part of this game.

[@00Skyfox]

I love the music in many of these events, especially the cliff diving and sumo wrestling. After cliff diving, if you stay in the water a while, the pelican flies away.

[@GameTestPlay]

The music is great. I tried getting the pelican to fly away on the NES version, but I guess it only works on certain systems.

[@pbyrne3193]

Omg forgot the pelican flew away 🤣🤣

[@brucetungsten5714]

Total classic - it was so awesome playing this on the Commodore.

[@taschwei]

It is nice to see the old game again, but the way you play it, really hurts. A lot of wasted attempts. You don't really care about playing it well...

[@thriftweeds]

Thanks for compliments and i think i did good for not playing this game for 30 years after, but today now on real C64 maxi i got much better results than this old play, i can liftweight over 225kg snatch 75 jerk, jump over 16-17 barrels but still do mistakes time to time, but you gotta re try, 100 points from cliff diving and right timing, not that bad, but still log rollin', bullriding: not good at them.

[@StevenJSkiba]

​@@thriftweedsPics or it didn't happen.

[@EyeForKnowledge.]

Who would have thunk that 37 years after playing this game religiously that I’d be watching it on a device that fits in my pocket. Time is a strange thing.

[@elsd1517]

I still have my C64 in the box with around 100 games.

[@brooksmc]

5:40 epyx fail

[@johnrobb2483]

I love the animations of the weight lifter taking deep breath and shaking his hands 😂

[@salmiak333]

Gotta say I love the Monkey Island reference, hats off for that. :D Btw people who say gaming is antisocial should have seen my entire neighbourhood crammed up in our sofa taking turns playing this, laughing together, we LOVED this game. We never figured out logrolling or bullriding, so those we did just for fun, which actually just made everything even better.

[@Emulous79]

This is way better than the Amiga/Atari ST versions, graphically and soundwise, as was the case with Wizball. Odd how technically-better machines produced worse ports, except for Head Over Heels, for example. I don't believe anybody can do more than 14 barrels in Barrel Jumping. Seems silly how you can select more than that.

[@thriftweeds]

+Dan Warren (Forgottenretroworlds79) My record is 15 or 16 barrels on C64 and 16 barrels on DOS version, and there's also video in youtube where this guy Roland who jumps 18 barrels!!! It is the new world record! :D

[@Emulous79]

Guybrush Threepwood I'll be!

[@tomspice73]

i did 15

[@scottythegreat1]

Epyx designed their games originally for the C64, and then ported everything to other systems. The best versions of any games were on the original computer or console.

[@t.m.8556]

12 Guys had not a good Childhood...

[@noppa82]

haha, still have that game in a box with the rest of the c64 stuff :D

[@tomspice73]

Noppa i'll buy it

[@jebbathehutt]

All these games were amazing from music on some events, I had the majority of the 'games' editions, loved them all

[@joostwagelaar8837]

Is this game worth any money? I have one for the msx

[@RodrigoTechador]

They did a surprisingly good job of capturing the bagpipe sound in the caber toss.

[@Eliminaattori]

I once got 99 points in diving but then my friend made 100 - it was probably maximum. If you really "tortured" the joystick, 220 kg was the best at weightlifting. But 255 (max) was impossible. Could not even get it to chest level. Love the music on diving level!

[@caras2004]

The country of EPYX

[@Randy1337]

:)

[@lucaschapman2188]

I remember playing this round my mate’s house when I was about 14 or 15. We used to be playing while drinking 🍺 so by the time we got to the caber toss we were usually wasted 😂

[@theguardian308]

I had this game on cassette but it was unreliable so it would hardly ever load, especially the latter games. Very frustrating since I really enjoyed the games like weightlifting but I don’t think played sumo cause it wouldn’t load

[@issacfarji1267]

I still remeber this thanks for sharing

[@HuchpiHua]

Never seen this game broken by ESI and never seen this ESI Intro before. My version was cracked by TRIAD.

[@p.pentatonic4309]

Flashback ;-) What a great Time..

[@TrueMarble64]

ok we have load past from SBAH! Lets Go! ^_^

[@bedfordcrusader]

Always had to wait for the snatch to finish before i could do my clean and jerk

[@EurocorpFx]

21:09 I had to laugh so hard, this was the best

[@ryanmrasmussen]

I was yelling at the screen to hold the joystick down when the bull went intto the spin

[@MexboroughBuildings]

That bagpipe music is still amazing.

[@festushaggen2563]

Thia takes me back. I played my C64 almost as much as my NES because of this game, California Games, Skate or Die!, Congo Bongo, Zaxxon and Mail Order Monsters. Challenging but fun games that kept me coming back for one more round.

[@steve24822]

I never played this. Epyx really nailed it, the quality has got to be as far as the c64 could go.

[@patsfan4life]

Nevets epyx and accolade made the best c64 games.....

[@issmodissmo1485]

In Erinnerung an die vielen zerstörten Joysticks....

[@RodrigoTechador]

Mögen sie in Frieden ruhen.

[@Bobabloxqueen]

disney

[@privatelyprivate3285]

How I learned the tune to most national anthems

[@timhaskett1733]

That pelican was so funny

[@salonsospain]

2837

[@salonsospain]

312

[@simonscott1121]

wow, the sound is waaaaay off.

[@zbyniu-gh8sg]

I played all of them

[@dylanhopwood3773]

me and my best friend used to play the hell out of this game was so much fun

[@Randy1337]

[@fluxifyme]

I used to play the shit out of this back in the day. Epic.

[@reiergv]

Guybrush❤

[@12from121]

the memories come back. I was a great bull rider

[@marcschultz9613]

Bei 17 Fässern wurde es eng

[@jamesoverholt878]

Lol at it having the hacker's title screen

[@timhaskett1733]

My favourite in the ‘games’ series

[@tkraft82]

Caber toss was my jam

[@UltyAdv]

So much memories....

[@RaceWithDevil1]

Ahahah nice

[@Cukito4]

First!

[@Simon0]

26:59 - that was easy!