Olympic Summer Games (video game)

Olympic Summer Games
Sega Megadrive Cover art
Developer(s)	Silicon Dreams Tiertex Design Studios
Publisher(s)	3DO U.S. Gold Sega Genesis, Game Boy & Super Nintendo Entertainment System Black Pearl PlayStation ^EU U.S. Gold ^NA Eidos Interactive ^JP Coconuts Japan
Platform(s)	3DO, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation
Release date(s)	3DO & Sega Genesis ^NA 1996 ^EU 1996 Super Nintendo Entertainment System & Game Boy ^NA June, 1996 ^EU June 27, 1996 PlayStation ^EU July ??, 1996 ^NA July 23, 1996 ^JP October 25, 1996
Genre(s)	Sports (Olympic)
Mode(s)	Single-player, two player hotseat or simultaneously

Olympic Summer Games is the 16-bit edition of the official video game of the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. It is the third game of a loose "trilogy" also consisting of Olympic Gold and Winter Olympics. It was the last "Olympic" video game released for the fourth generation of consoles, as well as the Game Boy.

It follows the already common button mashing techniques of previous (and future) games, with the usual exceptions.

It has 10 events (three more than Olympic Gold), with all but two based on track and field events.^[1] Unlike Winter Olympics, there are no major differences between each event on different platforms.

Athletes

• Paul
• Chris
• David
• Kevin
• Gary
• Colin
• Ian
• Jon

Events

• 100 m sprint
• 110 m hurdles
• Pole vault
• High jump
• Long Jump
• Triple Jump
• Javelin
• Discus
• Archery
• Skeet

Gameplay

As in the previous titles, there are three difficulty levels and both Olympics and mini-Olympics (here called "custom game") modes. However, the points table was removed, and the only way to compare results is by the medals' table. In the sprinting events, there are two qualifying rounds, and only the winner (out of four competitors) passes to the next round. On long jump, triple jump, discus and javelin each player has three attempts; the best 10 progress to the final and have three extra attempts. The best result overall wins. In high jump and pole vault there aren't qualifying rounds; the players jump in turns until missing three consecutive jumps.

References

1. "Olympic Summer Games". Electronic Gaming Monthly (Ziff Davis) (83): 118. June 1996.