Hes Games
| Hes Games | |
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 Cover art | |
| Developer(s) | 321 Software |
| Publisher(s) | HESware[1] |
| Platform(s) | C64 |
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| Genre(s) | Sports[1] |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Hes Games is a 1984 sports game released for the Commodore 64 by HESware.
It was originally developed by 3-2-1 Software for the C64 . It was later upgraded by Michael Crick and released in the UK by Americana as Go For The Gold (#1 hit September 1986) and in the US by COSMI CORP under the label Celery Software. The US title ,World Games, was changed to Gold Medal Games to avoid confusion with an EPYX product of the same name.
The game was the second game ever to use speech (Ready, Set, Go!). The diving and archery accurately followed the laws of physics. Some of the games were so addictive that players only stopped playing when they could no longer move their fingers. The weightlifting event was the first computer game to use a screen-sized figure.
Reception
InfoWorld in 1984 stated that HES Games "may be one of the best" of several Olympics-related games, especially praising the weightlifting simulation.[2] The game was positively reviewed by Zzap!64 magazine who gave it a 95% rating.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 HES Games at GameFAQs
- ↑ Mace, Scott (1984-02-27). "Olympic games on the way". InfoWorld. p. 66. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ↑ http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=015&page=101&magazine=zzap