Video Olympics
| Video Olympics | |
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| Video Olympics | |
| Studio | Atari |
| Publisher | Atari |
| Senior Developer | Joe Decuir |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1977 (North America), 1980 (Germany) |
| platform | Atari 2600 |
| genre | Sports game |
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer |
| control | Paddle |
| medium | Game module |
Video Olympics is a video game module that was released in 1977 at the same time as the Atari 2600 game console . It contains a collection of 50 sports games based on the principle of Pong . In some of these game variants, four players were able to play simultaneously in a computer game for the first time.
Game description
According to the manufacturer, Video Olympics is a collection of 50 different sports games . The games are all based on the principle of pong with seven slightly different playing fields and rules. In the game instructions, the variants are referred to as tennis , soccer , hockey , court handball , volleyball , quadrapong and basketball . The aim of all games is to play a ball in the opponent's goal or out. Depending on the game variant, one to four players can try to touch the ball with a bar and shoot in the direction of the opposing goal. Each game ends after 2 minutes and 16 seconds. The winner is the player or team that has scored the most points during this time. The game can only be played with paddles . Two pairs of paddles are required for four players.
Emergence
Atari created Pong, the first successful video game for the private market in 1972 . With Video Olympics , an attractive further development of the well-known game should support the success of the new Atari 2600 game console . The game was developed under the Atari internal development number 21 by Joe Decuir and was published as one of nine selected games together with the Atari 2600.
particularities
The game was the first video game that could be played by four players at the same time. Since this was only possible with two pairs of paddles, this variant was hardly used. As a result, there was only one other game from Atari, Warlords , that supported four paddles.
The first game modules that were sold still had the Atari internal development number 21, which led to confusion among customers, as Atari only released nine of its first games with the console.
literature
- Christian Wirsig: The great lexicon of computer games. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-525-2 .
Web links
- Video Olympics at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ DS Cohen, Video Olympics - Pong goes for the Gold