Summer Games II

"Summer Games II" is a sports video game developed by Epyx and released by U.S. Gold based on sports featured in the Summer Olympic Games. Released in 1985 for the Commodore 64, it was also eventually ported to the Apple II and IBM PC platforms. It is a sequel to the popular "Summer Games" released by Epyx the previous year.

The game was presented as a virtual multi-sport carnival called the "Epyx Games" (there was no official IOC licensing in place) with up to 8 players each choosing a country to represent, and then taking turns competing in various events to try for a medal. World records could be saved to the game disk.

The original C64 version of Summer Games 2 was done by Scott Nelson, Jon Leupp, Chuck Sommerville, Kevin Norman, Michael Kosaka & Larry Clague in 1985. The same year saw an Apple 2 version, created by John Stouffer, Jeff Webb, Doug Matson, Greg Broniak, Tim Grost, Matt Decker, Vera Petrusha, Ken Evans, Pat Findling, Dr. Keith Dreyer & Chris Oesterling.

A year later it was ported to MS-DOS by Phil Suematsu, Jeff Grigg, Don Hill & Jimmy Huey. Einstein & Steve Hawkes ported it to the Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.

In 1992 Adam Steele, Phillip Morris & Dave Lowe ported it finally to the Atari ST and the Amiga.

Events

The game features the following eight events:
*Triple jump
*High jump
*Rowing
*Javelin throw
*Equestrian
*Fencing
*Kayaking
*Cycling

The game allowed the player to compete in all of the events sequentially, compete in some events, choose just one event, or practice an event. This version also features both the opening and closing ceremonies, where the closing ceremonies features a "fan man", the flame extinguishing as the sky goes dark, a blimp passing by and some fireworks.

Trivia

*Instead of the Australian anthem the game plays mistakenly the song "Waltzing Matilda" and the Russian anthem is falsely represented by the "International Anthem of the Communist Parties of the World".
*The 16-Bit versions play the U.S. Gold anthem instead of the Epyx one.
*All versions of the sequel offer to additionally merge the events of the first Summer Games into one giant olympic contest with 16 different disciplines!

External links

*moby game|id=/summer-games-ii
*WoS game|id=0004992