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Olympic Special: 1980-2008
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August 10, 2008 01:57 PM PDT

With the Olympic Cauldron lit for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, why not reflect over the past 28 years of Olympic related software? I take you through a brief tour, starting with the keyboard-bashing antics of the Apple ][, past the broken joysticks of the 8-bit computers, to the official IOC games for the consoles of the day.

Olympic Special Playlist:

Timothy W. SmithOlympic DecathlonApple ][1981
Danny GloverSummer GamesCPC1984/7
EpyxWinter GamesVCS1984/7
Jonathan DunnDaley Thompson's Olympic ChallengeZX1281988
Wally BabenSummer OlympiadST1988
Wally BabenWinter Olympiad 88C641988
US GoldOlympic GoldSMD1992
Tim HaywoodLillehammer '94AMI1994
Mark OrtizAtlanta '96SNES1996
Shin'en MultimediaSalt Lake 2002GBA2002
GorillazBBC Olympics Coverage 2008C64?2008

With thanks to:
TACGR - http://tacgr.emuunlim.com
AtariAge - www.atariage.com
Project AY - www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay
www.atari.st
Lemon 64 - www.lemon64.com
Lemon Amiga - www.lemonamiga.com
http://dekku.blogspot.com
G.G. EuDraco uses Applewin, WinAPE, x26, Winamp, DGen, ZSNES and Visual Boy Advance

Stereo podcast, due to stereo soundchips!