Athletics Games: Cool Or Fool?

Can io declare this thread dead. Its obvious that no-one did own Daley Thompson's Decathlong (or Decathlon, or even his Decathong-th-thong-thong-thong - though the idea of a ten man Thong is most intriguing). The bater-me-buttoner works best in my opinion on a keyboard where the buttons are nice, solid and give a resolute sound out when bashed. The spectrum's rubber kets were rubbish at this, as are Playstation joypads.

But obviously no-one cares.

Ah well, some you win some you lose. Coming to the pub tonight?

I went to a pub. Am now suffering. And yet again my work schedule involves taking the wee ones on a pub crawl. Most you lose I tend to find.

I had DTDec in the 80s - it loaded in two entirely separate sections, so you could only play five events at a time, which was a real chore when your tape recorder was so unreliable that it only loaded one in five times.

The only good button-bash event was the 100m - the 1500m was painfully boring.

I didn't like the kind of games which required both button bashing and additional fiddly timed keystrokes - eg pole vault, javelin. Particularly poor examples of these were Epyx's Winter Games and Summer Games, where you could only win by pressing lots of different keys at the same time.

Winter Games included a figure skating sim. Good grief.

I disagree, The Epyx sports games (Summer 1+2, Winter, World, Californian etc.) were the games with EASILY the best gameplay, and where also the most fun - unless you enjoy getting cramp in your arms.

How could you not grasp the controls when they were only designed for joysticks with one-button? Okay you mention a figure skating game - a bad idea, but what about classic events like ski-jumping in Winter Games, cliff (yes, cliff) diving in World Games or the sublime Surfing and hacky-sack (yes I hate these "sports" in real-life too) in Californian Games, to name but a few.

Anyhoo....