Olympic Summer Games

Olympic Summer Games is the 16-bit official videogame of the 1996 Olympic Games held in Atlanta, the third and the last IOC official title to be released on the GameBoy console. A typical button masher, it includes 10 events (100m sprint, 110m hurdles, pole vault, long jump, triple jump, javelin, high jump, discus, skeet and archery) and 32 countries around the world compete in custom or full Olympics, or just practice.

Two players can compete head to head in the sprinting events, and a total of eight can play in the same game. Three difficulty levels allow competitive events for both rookies to veterans in the genre. The gameplay involves short and straight button mashing frenzies for sprinting events, mixed with timed pressed jumps for jumping events.

The throwing events (discus and javelin) work similarly, but with trickier settings. Each player is entitled to three throws, with the top eight allowed three more attempts. The shooting events, archery and skeet, require calculated shots according to wind direction. In archery, players aim for inner rings of the target, while in skeet, the goal is to hit five clay pigeons before they disappear.