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Best of Epyx's The Games
To tie in with this month's issue, which was your favourite in the series and why?


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World Games, followed by the Summer ones, then Winter. I never liked the made up daft events of the California one.

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Winter Games was my favourite. I just liked the combination of activities and "atmosphere" created by the lovely snow-y graphics throughout.
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Winter games for me as well
Never keen on California games
Never keen on California games
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Ditto. I think because I played it during the winter months too when Ski Sunday was on the telly.ncf1 wrote:Winter Games was my favourite. I just liked the combination of activities and "atmosphere" created by the lovely snow-y graphics throughout.
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This is a tough one, due to my favourite differing depending on what we were playing on.
Loved Winter games especially on the 8 bit computers, but loved California games on Master System and Lynx. At a push I'd go Winter games
Loved Winter games especially on the 8 bit computers, but loved California games on Master System and Lynx. At a push I'd go Winter games
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I put Summer Games. I'd forgotten how good some of the animation was in these games! Not bad for the early/mid 80s.
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I don't really play sports games. Apart from one version of FIFA, Blades of Steel and Calgames. That beanbag one was probably my favourite - loved trying to hit the seagull with the beanbag 

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Tough one, I plumbed for World Games.
It just felt better than the others and a little quirky at the same time.
It just felt better than the others and a little quirky at the same time.
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California Games - Between this game and the Bart Simpson, it is what got me into Skateboarding as a kid 
The half pipe and BMX levels remain a favourite of mine and I find myself going back to both the Mega Drive and Master System versions all the time for a quick session

The half pipe and BMX levels remain a favourite of mine and I find myself going back to both the Mega Drive and Master System versions all the time for a quick session

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For me it's Summer Games II.
By choosing a wider range of Olympic events it felt different to the other multi-event sports games.
Plus the animation is great.
And only the cycling relies on a form of waggling, which gets my vote.
(Can't believe it got 7/10 rating in the article, Laird - it's probably my least favourite Games event).
By choosing a wider range of Olympic events it felt different to the other multi-event sports games.
Plus the animation is great.
And only the cycling relies on a form of waggling, which gets my vote.
(Can't believe it got 7/10 rating in the article, Laird - it's probably my least favourite Games event).
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When I was doing the article Art Koch went really in depth about the animation, it was something he was very proud of and it was definitely quite ground breaking for the time.Sephiroth81 wrote:I put Summer Games. I'd forgotten how good some of the animation was in these games! Not bad for the early/mid 80s.
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I have the most experience with California Games which is a quite solid collection of "extreme" sports (I like the tube skateboarding in particular - that bloody scene when you hit the sides was gold
) but I'm not sure if it's their top. For sure, there were interesting sports games back in those days and weren't as soulless and dull as sports games tend to be these days (even if the graphics are photo realistic in comparison, I actually prefer "pixel art" myself).

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I'm going for Winter Games On the c64. The Summer Games were great but not as unique as the Winter Games. A very close second is California Games on the Atari Lynx. A great combo of soft and hardware. Worth owning a Lynx for.
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California games for the Master System was well cool. The megadrive version just wasn't the same...
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