Summer Games II

Summer Games II
Game No.	115
Voting	8.60 points, 60 votes
Developer	Chuck Sommerville, Jon Leupp, Kevin Norman, Michael Kosaka, Larry Clague, Scott Nelson
Company	Epyx
Publisher	Rushware (Germany), Epyx (USA), U.S. Gold (Europe)
Musician	Randy Glover, Larry Clague
HVSC-File	MUSICIANS/V/Vieira_Bob/Summer_Games_II.sid
Release	1985
Platform	Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, C64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum
Genre	Sports
Gamemode	Single player up to 8 players (in turns) 2 players (simultaneous)
Operation
Media
Language
Information	Forerunner: Summer Games

Description

Summer Games II is the sequel of Summer Games. Epyx has now introduced the events, which have been missed at Summer Games. Both games together now get a proper collection of sports, which you can play above all as party competition. In other sports games it was common to shake the joystick until it breaks. At Summer Games II the controls are better thought through and the joystick is only really strained in the discipline "Cycling".

The game is laid out for up to 8 players. The players get points for their reached ranks in each of the disciplines. For each gold medal you get 5 points, for each silver medal 3 points and one point for each bronze medal. The player with the most points wins the game.

An important alteration against the forerunner version is the menu point "compete in some events". With this it is possible to exclude unloved events. Furthermore, this sports game was expanded by a closing ceremony.

Design

... already the opening ceremony shows fluent animations ...

... the closing ceremony ...

Epyx has again taken great pains in graphics to offer an optically attractive game. Many elements, that they could have taken over from Summer Games were newly designed. The animation of the characters are realized very appealingly.

Hints

Triple Jump

At Triple Jump you need to do 3 jumps which should be as long as possible. This is not quite easy, as this needs fast, coordinated joystick movements. The judges declare the jump as faulty if a mistake is made. Four movements of the joystick are needed for this event.

Controls:

• - The fire button starts the running phase
• - jump the first two jumps ("Hop" and "Step")
• - jump the last jump ("Jump")
• - Joystick up during the jumps: raises the bounce

Tips:

• Hit the beam as exact (late) as possible, to avoid giving away distance.
• Delay the single jumps as long as possible (joystick up).

Rowing

At Rowing you need the move the joystick steadily horizontally, to reach a fast and fluent movement. Hectic joystick movements only seldom make high speeds. The player who first has overcome the distance of 250 meters has won.

Controls:

• - The fire button starts the race
• - lift rudder
• - draw rudder through the water

Tips:

• Plunge the rudder as far as possible at the rear into the water and draw it through the water until the end.
• Avoid a standing still of the rudder at the limits.

Javelin Throw

At Javelin Throw you need to throw the spear as far as possible. When the player runs you can speed him up by pressing continuously on the fire button. Just before the line you should draw the joystick to the left until the spear is in the right throwing position. By the combination of speed and throwing angle will be decided how far the spear flies.

Controls:

• - The fire button starts the run and raises the running speed.
• - decide throwing angle
• - Joystick resting position: throw spear

Tips:

• Pick up a high speed and throw the spear as late as possible.
• Choose the throwing angle so the spear reaches the height of the spectators‘seats.

Equestrian

At Equestrian you need to jump over obstacles. Hereby you should take care that you don’t ride too fast. You accelerate the horse by pulling the stick upwards If the horse is too fast, the horse will throw the rider down after landing. If the rider misses the correct jumping point the horse will refuse to jump. After that the joystick needs to be moved downwards to turn the horse. A movement forwards continues to run. Therefore skilled timing while jumping is needed. After 100 seconds or when having more than 99 penalty points the rider is disqualified.

Controls:

• - The fire button starts the run
• – raise speed
• – lower speed
• - jump
• - land

Penalty points:

• 6 points when thrown down
• 20 points when horse refuses to jump
• each 1 point per second when needing over 50 seconds

Tip:

• to absolve the parcour without penalty points a time of under 50 seconds is enough.

High Jump

At High Jump you need to jump over a crossbar. With a movement to the right the racer starts. A fast startup and a precise timing in the jumping phase are need for High Jump. Only with enough training you can make this event.

Controls running phase:

• – starts the running movement
• in the tact of the steps – raises the running speed
• while running – lowers the distance to the crossbar
• while running - raises the distance to the crossbar

Controls jumping phase:

• - jump
• – jump over the crossbar

Tips:

• get as much speed as possible
• jumping should be done at the first post
• pull the joystick upwards when the legs have reached the upper edge of the mat

Fencing

In Fencing you need to hit the opponent with skilled strokes to trigger a contact. . If the green light flashes, the player has landed a hit. If the red light flashes, the opponent has hit. If both players hit simultaneously, no fencer will get a hit. The player who first makes 5 hits or has the most hits after 3 minutes has won the fight.

Controls:

• - defensive fenicng movement while standing
• - Joystick right and fire button moves the fencer to the right
• - Joystick left and fire button moves the fencer to the left
• - Joystick forwards and fire button starts an attack
• - Joystick backwards and fire button starts an attack

Tip:

• A close victory also makes a record.

Cycling

At Cycling a distance of 200 meters needs to be covered as fast as possible. This is not reached by shaking, but by ringlike clockwise movements with the joystick. The direction is shown by a rotating arrow (pedal position).

Controls:

• - ringlike clockwise movement of the joystick: turning of the pedals

Tip:

• If you lose the rhythm you should quickly bring the joystick into the shown direction of the arrow and then continue the circular movements.

Kayaking

At Kayaking you need to drive through 15 gates the right way. However, the kayak is hard to steer and some gates are positioned in a way that the whole thing gets an ordeal. Most of the gates need to be taken forwards in flow direction, while two gates (6 and 13) need to be driven through backwards. Gates that you have missed lead to penalty time. This times is added to the time you needed to complete the course. The winner of this discipline is the player with the lowest time.

Controls:

• – steer thekayak left or right
• – accelerate kayak in viewing direction
• – accelerate kayak in the opposing direction

Tip:

• Gate 10 needs to be taken upstream.

Combination with "Summer Games"

However, not all versions work together with each other without problems. To avoid getting an unpleasant crash during the game, you can find here a set of versions which are ompatible to each other (according to "Flexman", not tested "H.T.W"). (but see also section "Problems with the combination of Summer Games and Summer Games II").

Versions

Version Single-Sided (se Links: Gamesbase):

only 1 disk side (space-saving)

annoying turning of the disk falls away

world records can be saved optionally

no combination with Summer Games possible

Version by Epyx (original):

combination with Summer Games possible

every world record is instantly saved

empty highscore list

extremely fast fastloader

2 disk sides (annoying turning of the disk)

copy protection

Version by CRM (Crackman):

every world record is instantly saved

combination possible with the Jedi version of Summer Games in all events until the overall score appears. To see the closing ceremony, however, you have to insert the unrequested Summer Games II disk side 2 while the overall score is shown.

no turbo loader (advantage for emulator, furthermore you can speed up with cartridge)

2 disk sides (annoying turning of the disk)

Controls for keyboard

• I  = Joystick up

• J  = Joystick left

• K  = Joystick right

• M  = Joystick down

• Space  = Joystick fire button

Easter Egg

If you press the following keys before the title screen appears,

• F3 
• DEL 
• CRSR down 

you will see the "Bummer Games II" title screen.

Solution

• Tips for each of the sports are found under sections hints for each discipline.
• For Cycling the controls with a keyboard (circle movements) are not suitable. Therefore a adequate joystick is a must!

Cheats

• Cheats or pokes are currently none known.

Voting

Voting of the C64-Wiki users (10=the best vote):
8.60 points at 60 votes (rank 18). You need to be logged in to cast a vote.
C64Games	10	23rd April 2010 - "highlight" - 40366 downs
Lemon64	8,7	23rd April 2010 - 154 votes
Kultboy.com	8,4	26th June 2011 - 25 votes
Gamebase64	9	5/5 "Very Good"
ZZap64	97%	Issue 85/09

Reviews

Werner: "A really great and mature sports game, that eclipses his forerunner! 10 points from me."

FXXS: "Rowing, Javelin Throw, Equestrian, and High Jump are good to learn and motivate to break the record. This also counts restrictedly for Kayaking, only the controls should have been a bit more exact and the kayak a bit shorter. Fencing is quite ok, unfortunately there is no real record. I didn’t like Cycling at all, nevertheless still good 9 points. (together with part 1 a 10+)"

mombasajoe: "Many improvements to the forerunner. This part would be the best without Fencing and Equestrian,in exchange with 100m Dash and Platform Diving in the same quality. Doesn’t exist this way. Bummer! Anyway 8/10."

Shakermaker303: "Not better or worse than part 1. Therefore again 9 points from me."

blubarju: "My sister and I especially liked Equestrian. But the other disciplines are of course also of high quality. As you are used to from Epyx. 9 out of 10 points."

MontyMole: "By far better than the in my opinion badly aged forerunner. The controls are still rather challenging, but much more approachable as in the first part, where I often didn’t understand, what depends on what. It is also nice that there are no gap fillers such as 4x400m Relay or two swimming disciplines. I give Summer Games 2 close 9 points. And only because the later parts of the series (California Games, Winter Games) were just another tick better."

Miscellaneous

Problems with the combination of Summer Games and Summer Games II

• When using the combination of Summer Games and Summer Games II disciplines "Freestyle Relay" and "100m Freestyle" must NOT be used, as otherwise the game will crash to 99,9% percent or will show bugs in "Gymnastics" (and crash afterwards).
• This bug with the discipline Gymnastics (combination of SG2 + SG1 and all events chosen) happens with all cracks and also with the g64-images!!
• The only versions that - as far as I can see - have not this bug are (tested by H.T.W):
  • Version by "The Joker": "Summer_Games_I_Disk_1_(The_Joker).d64" + "Summer_Games_II_Disk_1_(The_Joker).d64" + "Summer_Games_II_Disk_2_(The_Joker).d64". This version has been played through with 8 players with all the 16 disciplines 5 times and works absolutely reliable. Starting and closing ceremony are there and also the world records for SG1 and SG2 are resettable! This version can be found on c64games.de (see Links)
  • ORIGINALDISK (g84-Images) by "GOLD SILVER BRONZE" on c64games.de (see Links)
  • CMD-Version "Summer_Games_2_incl_SG1_Disz_(TAC+HtW_v1.1).d81" on c64games.de (see Links)
  • Epyx Games Collection for EasyFlash (see Links)

Trivia

• The closing ceremony with the appearance of a Jetpack-Stuntman suggests Los Angeles 1984 as venue.
• Since 27.06.2008 the game is available for download for the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console .

Cover

"Cover"

... Cover cassette version ...

Diskette

Cassette

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Highscore

1. Werner - 3/2/3 (28.05.2007)
2. FXXS - 3/0/1 (16.05.2007)
3. Ralf - 3/0/0 (16.05.2007)
4. Mindless - 2/2/2 (?.?.198?)
5. Frank - 2/0/0 (16.05.2007)
6. Agerskov - 2/0/0 (12.08.2012)
7. Bauch - 1/1/0 (09.05.2007)
8. Reinhard - 1/0/0 (16.05.2007)

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze	further places
TRIPLE JUMP	18.45m - Agerskov	17.55m - Bauch 17.55m - Werner	17.50m - Mindless	17.45m - FXXS
ROWING	0:26.0 - Frank	0:26.8 - Werner	0:26.9 - Mindless	0:27.1 - FXXS
JAVELIN THROW	101.31m - Ralf 101.31m - Werner 101.31m - Agerskov	-	95.31m - FXXS	0 - Empty
EQUESTRIAN	0 - FXXS 0 - Ralf 0 - Werner 0 - Mindless	-	-	0 - Empty
HIGH JUMP	2.50m - Bauch 2.50m - FXXS 2.50m - Agerskov	-	2.45m - Werner	0 - Empty
FENCING	Victory - Frank Victory - FXXS Victory - Werner Victory - Mindless			0 - Empty
CYCLING	0:26.4 - Reinhard	0:31.4 - Mindless	0:37.6 - Werner	0:55.6 - FXXS
KAYAKING	1:06 - Ralf	1:31 - Mindless	2:04 - Werner	2:21 - FXXS

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  FXXS five records / three ties

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  Mindless scores

Links

Wikipedia: Summer_Games_II

• C64Games.de - Game No. 170
• Lemon64 - Game No. 2530
• Gamebase64.com - Game No. 7547
• Test Report No. 788 on Kultboy.com
• ZZap64 test report
• CSDb - Release No. 107705 Epyx Games Collection for EasyFlash.
  It contains Summer Games, Summer Games II (work in combination), Winter Games, World Games and California Games.
• Summer Games I and II versions of Summer Games I and II which work together without crashing.

Videos

• Games video download at Archive.org (C64 Gamevideoarchive) (all Summer Games 1+2 events)
• Video at YouTube (all Summer Games 1+2 events)
• Video recording on DailyMotion Fencing 2:46.88
• Video recording on DailyMotion High Jump 2,50m
• Video recording on DailyMotion Rowing 26,1
• Video recording on DailyMotion Javelin Throw 101,31m
• Video recording on DailyMotion Equestrian 36,12
• Video at YouTube Kayaking 1:14
• Video at YouTube (Floppy Fans #6: Summer Games I & II)
• Video at YouTube (Floppy Fans audio comment: Summer Games I & II)

The "Epyx-Games" Series

Summer Games · Summer Games II · Winter Games · World Games · California Games
The Games - Winter Edition · The Games - Summer Edition