"Summer Games" was a cool game for its time, as were the other Olympics-themed games released by Epyx.

User Rating: 7 | Summer Games APL2
"Summer Games" was the first Olympics-themed game from Epyx in the early 1980s. The game featured the following events: Pole Vault, Platform Diving, Sprinting, Gymnastics, Freestyle Swimming, Skeet Shooting, and Rowing.

Since the game was on the Apple II, the graphics and gameplay were extremely limited by today's standard, but were fairly cutting edge for the day. Like many Apple II games of the day, the player's character would remain in the center of the screen, while the background scrolled to represent movement.

The player could represent one of 17 nations, or the Epyx nation. All this did was determine which national anthem was played if the player won the gold medal in an event.

"Summer Games" was a cool game for its time, as were the other Olympics-themed games released by Epyx, and it kept me amused for hours at a time in my early days of videogaming.