Comments on: Jog ‘Em Up: Beijing 2008

By: Irish Al

Irish Al — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:00:26 +0000

Unless it has easter eggs like arcade Hyper Sports, I’ll pass.

By: itsallcrap

itsallcrap — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:23:47 +0000

So… it is still going to be button bashing then? In 2008? In near enough every event? For £40?

Sports fan or not, anyone who buys this is a fool of the most foolish order.

By: caesarbear

caesarbear — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:10:39 +0000

I adored the Epyx games series. I broke a dozen joysticks playing those. The later games did give way to more sensible rhythm play, don’t know why that didn’t stick. Yet I’m not sad they are gone. I’m still a closet fan of sports titles though. I’d rather play a quick round on a good sports game than a quick time wasting on a casual game. The problem is finding a good sports game.

By: Phil White

Phil White — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:24:50 +0000

I still don’t understand why button-bashing hasn’t given way to rhythm?

For example: pressing L1 as your sprinter’s left foot touches down, then R1 for the opposite leg. Button-bashing at the start would be okay; the first 15 metres or so. The closer to perfect your timing, the faster and longer the stride. Surely this has been done somewhere?

(Nagano ’98. Curling.)

By: Sucram

Sucram — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:57:12 +0000

I played quite a lot of Deathball.

By: Fede

Fede — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:40:21 +0000

I’ve spent countless hours playing Winter Games, Summer Games and Track and Field with friends and we still play them once or twice a year.

By: capital L

capital L — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:07:46 +0000

Mario Tennis on N64 was an awful lot of fun. Some friends and I never really stopped playing it well into the Playstation/Xbox era. Eventually we killed a 64, essentially due to playing that game all the goddamn time one particular summer. ALSO WE KNEW A DUDE WHO LOOKED JUST LIKE WALUIGI

By: terry

terry — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:45:45 +0000

Summer Games 2 and Winter Games rocked. I will take anyone in the javelin or hotdog >:OOOOOO

@quirk: anything other than bowling incites more violence than it prevents in my local

edit: is “joystick waggling” considered filthy now? :(

By: Cigol

Cigol — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:30:33 +0000

This isn’t getting anywhere near my PS3, £30 for a controller these days isn’t it? Proper PC keyboard and mice don’t come cheap either, in fact they tend to be more expensive if you go down the gaming route.

…not on your nelly!

By: wikiwikiwildwildwest

wikiwikiwildwildwest — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:57:25 +0000

Some of my finest gaming memories are of 3 friends, a bucket of KFC, Dr Peppers all round for sugar rush speed, a PS1, a multi-tap and Track and Field.

The bizarrely fast thumbed but lacking in the technique (i use the term loosely) events one, the consistent one, the not quite so consistent but occasionally world record settingly fast one. oh and the rubbish one who’d give up after 3 fouls in the long jump because there was no chance of a podium.

Worn out thumbnails and RSI. Great days *wipes tear*.

By: Smn

Smn — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:53:14 +0000

I’ve throughly enjoyed countless hours of playing the track and field games on the ps2. Though they were boring singleplayer, they were absolutely stupendid when playing 4 at a time. These games were accessible and a fairly new player could within a few attempts challenge a seasoned player – this is probably also the main reason Wii sports is as popular as it is apart from the arm-swinging. Fifa 2-whatever are great fun if you are playing an equal opponent, but getting hammered in any game will put anyone off. Like for instance Tekken which was all about learning special moves.

Comparing Wii sports to the track and field games, Wii sports as a game has very little to offer. I mean; a tennis game where you cannot contol the movement of your character; a golf game where the sensitivity of the controller is far too weak to register careful movement when putting; and only four disciplines all of which are so horribly underdeveloped.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:52:48 +0000

That’s supposed to look like fun? I’m not seeing it…

Mythos for me please!