Olympic Summer Games (video Game)

Olympic Summer Games (video game)

Olympic Summer Games was the 16-bit edition of the official video game of the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games . It followed the failure of Winter Olympics: Lillehammer 94 and was the last "Olympic" video game released for 16-bit consoles (Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis and Nintendo's SNES and Nintendo's Game Boy.

It follows the already common button mashing techniques of previous (and future) games, with the usual exceptions.

It has 10 events (three more than Olympic Gold), but only two aren't based on track and field events, and unlike Winter Olympics, there are no major differences between each event on different platforms.

Graphics are considered to be either worse or only slightly better overall than those of Olympic Gold. While each nation (for a total of 28) has its own colour set, it was the only redeeming feature. The isometric view on most events meant that most times only grass was visible, and although some backgrounds were animated, on some a few sprites were out of proportion with others; the athlete in the pole vault looks too short when compared to the background objects while in the high jump the opposite occurs (and also looks smaller after the jump). The lack of competitive events outside the "Olympic stadium" also does not help to reduce the poor impression of the graphics, as it makes the game even more repetitive.