Sports 2022

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

It is time for the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing! For this occassion, I also played a bit the good old Winter Challenge PC game (1991) with DosBox.

[Daniel3D]

Wow. Thanks for that one.
I forgot so much about this game that I couldn't find it anywhere.
In the early nineties I played 3 games.
This one, stunts (obviously) and Prince of Persia.

[Cas]

Oh, I never had that one!  I did have a "California Games" that included skating in the water ducts, snowboarding from a mountain top, water scooter, etc.

[alanrotoi]

I did have a "California Games"

I thought exactly the same! What a game! California Games 2 was a fun game too, but the first one was better.
This oly winter game seems a bit boring at least from this picture... reminds a golf game I had back in early 90s

[afullo]

Is this the game by Accolade? I remember having something similar back in the 90s.

[dreadnaut]

I played a ton of Winter Games back then, we had competitions with friends after school!

I should still have that floppy somewhere

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Yes, it was a game by Accolade. A small problem in this game was that the computer results were too good in some events (even at amateur level). In the ski jump, which was my favourite event, it was too easy to fall when we jumped a long one.

Summer Challenge (1992) also existed, I was much better at it. In this game, the javelin throw was my favourite.

I played a lot of Winter and Summer Challenge tournaments against a friend of mine (and against his older brother), but in some cases, against my sister and my father, too. I remember my father was quite good at the javelin throw.

In the meantime, Hungary won a bronze medal in Beijing (short track speed skating, mixed relay) today.

[afullo]

Ok, so it is probably the very same game I used to play more than 25 years ago. I remember troubles in jumping, too, and also skating was difficult (short track still did not exist, afair). My favourite was biathlon...

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Ok, so it is probably the very same game I used to play more than 25 years ago. I remember troubles in jumping, too, and also skating was difficult (short track still did not exist, afair). My favourite was biathlon...

Almost sure that this is the same game. The speed skating was also very difficult, yeah, because at some corners, even if we controlled the athlete to the left, it hit the wall at the right. If we slowed down, we managed to avoid the crash, but our time became weak...

Btw some other favourite early DOS games (apart from Stunts, Summer and Winter Challenge): Scorched Earth, Lotus 3, Brett Hull Hockey '95, CD-Man (a PacMan-clone), LeaderBoard Golf...

[afullo]

For me, Lotus 3 had been in the second half of the 90s the split screen multiplayer par excellence.

[alanrotoi]

Ok maybe I was wrong and it is not that boring if everybody played it

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

For me, Lotus 3 had been in the second half of the 90s the split screen multiplayer par excellence.

All of the mentioned games were played by me in the second half of the 90s. I had my first PC in June 1996. (Between 1988 and 1996, I had a Commodore 64.) FIFA '94 and '96 were also influential.

[afullo]

For me, Lotus 3 had been in the second half of the 90s the split screen multiplayer par excellence.

All of the mentioned games were played by me in the second half of the 90s. I had my first PC in June 1996. (Between 1988 and 1996, I had a Commodore 64.) FIFA '94 and '96 were also influential.

In June 1996 I had my second PC, in which I did not install anymore some games present on my previous one (from 1992), such as Winter Games. But Stunts and Lotus, among many others, were installed again, and played even more. My first Fifa was '99.

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Now two bronze medals for the Hungarian team. Nice for a nation which is only known for summer olympics success, but it could have been more, however, Sándor Liu Shaolin was deprived of his gold medal by the cruel/biased judges today (btw he is half Chinese, half Hungarian, but a Hungarian citizen).

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

And a gold medal today! Hungary is 18th on the medal table! Almost as good as at the Summer Games last year, when Hungary was 15th in the end.