Summer Games Atari EPYX Disk 48K 800/XL/XE for Sale

Summer Games Atari EPYX Disk 48K 800/XL/XE For Sale

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Summer Games Atari EPYX Disk 48K 800/XL/XE :
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\"Summer Games\" Disk ByEPYXfor Atari 48K 800/XL/XE. New in Box(NIB).

SUMMER GAMES
The award-winning Summer Games licensed from Epyx is a series of seven exciting competitive events—just like the real international contest. Events vary from head-to-head races like sprints, swimming, and relays, to solo events like skeet shooting, diving, and gymnastics.

You win an event by scoring a faster time or more points than your opponents. Up to eight players can enter, each choosing a country to represent, such as the USA, USSR, Japan, or five others.

You can then practice a selected event or go right for the gold in all eight events. I found the 100-meter dash a good event to start with. After the runners line up on parallel tracks, you press the fire button to begin a ready/set/go sequence and at go (but not before) move the joystick as fast as you can in any direction to make your runner sprint. Keep the joystick moving as fast as you can until your runner reaches the finish line. The fastest time wins—and if you don\'t have a friend to play against, the computer is one real tough competitor!

Like the dash, swimming events begin with a ready/set/go sequence. Press the joystick right to get a good start (but not too early or you will fault). You can gain speed by pressing the joystick on each stroke just as your swimmer\'s arm reaches the water. To turn quickly at the end of the pool, you tap the joystick left before you hit the wall. Get into a good stroking rhythm and time your turns well, and you\'ll splash home to victory.

Skeet shooting is quite different from the other events. In it, you shoot from eight different firing positions at 25 targets launched from the left or right of the firing range. Move the joystick to sight the target, and shoot by pressing the fire button. Hint: for top scores, along with quick, accurate \'aiming, learn to compensate for the effect of gravity.

As in real life, gymnastics—specifically, the vaulting horse—requires concentration and coordination. You get points for your mount, somersaults, flips, and dismount. It is not easy to stand on the dismount, but if you do, you\'ll earn a significantly higher score.

Other events—pole vaulting, relaysand divingboth have their own special requirements for handling the joystick controls in order to achieve winning scores.

From the marvelous opening games ceremony with the lighting of the torch and thousands of white doves flying away to the honoring of the Grand Champion in a special end of games ceremony, Summer Games has the same total involvement as the real games. In the variety of individual and head-to-head challenges, you\'ll experience the same thrill of victory and agony of defeat as a real Olympian. Are you ready to go for the gold?
-Paul Pitman

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Summer Games Atari EPYX Disk 48K 800/XL/XE For Sale

Summer Games Atari EPYX Disk 48K 800/XL/XE : $4.95

Summer Games Atari EPYX Disk 48K 800/XL/XE :
$4.95