Review: Summer Sports Games (PlayStation 4, Switch & Steam) – Defunct Games

I never played Track and field II. So I can't say anything about it. That's why my favourites are : Gold medal challenge '92 and of course my personal creation (Medal winners '24) which I hope will be review by you one day. Great video and very interesting. New subscriber here.

I can't believe this is out physical on Ps5 for €40.

Super Team Games was my favorite Power Pad game as a kid and I don't think it gets enough attention. My friends and I would play it years after it came out. Even into the 32/64-bit era when we were mostly busy playing advanced 3D games, we would occasionally pull out the old NES and Power Pad and sink hours (and burn calories) into 3v3 feats of athleticism. Really timeless.

Probably would have sucked using a controller. The Power Pad was so key for these kind of games I'm surprised there was never a successor other than the Dance Pads.

Bandai's Stadium Events was cool as well.

QOTD: Konami made the best sports minigame compilationss, but my answer won't be one of their Track & Field titles – a ton of people forget that they also made Tiny Toons: Wacky Sports Challenge on the SNES, which I just love not only because it's a 16-bit Konami Tiny Toons game (so the sprite art and presentation is top notch), but because they're all fantasy events, which means they're tailored to gaming quite a bit better than how translations of the real-life events to gaming often goes in games like this. For example, instead of a typical 100m run around a track where all you need to do is tap buttons, Wacky Sports has the "Obstacle Course" event which is essentially a top-down platform game stage where you need to run n' jump around obstacles collecting items for points and trying to avoid hazards like Elmyra as you race to get to the finish line before the 3 other Tiny Toons you're competing against. Way more fun. Though there is stuff that relies on traditional button mashing and power gauge mechanics too, it's all well-done. Since they're all "wacky," they just designed events that are fun and take advantage of the video game-ness and cartoon-ness of the license (including some fantastic uses of Mode 7).

Beyond that, the US Kunio-Kun game Crash N' Da Boyz: Street Challenge is also pretty dope. But Crash and his boys (excuse me; BOYZ) just isn't as appealing as Buster, Babs and the rest of the Tiny Toons in my opinion. Again though, it takes advantage of the medium and strays from bland representations of actual events to really "video game things up," namely inserting the Kunio franchise' love of beat 'em up gameplay into every event. You're not just jumping hurdles in that games' version of events, you're shoulder tackling through them, picking up the debris, and tossing it at your opponent! You don't just swim down a lane faster than another guy, you go under the water, sneak over to his side, drag him down and beat the hell out of each other under the water until you HAVE to go back up for air! That's the way sports compilations should be imo – do stuff you can't (or shouldn't) do in real life here; it's a video game. Be fun.

Maybe it should be called “Special Summer Sports Games”. The athletes have no legs for goodness sakes.

Dammit! I only have an xbox!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I actually like the Mario and Sonic ones I have all the Mario and Sonic Olympic Games and I don't think there's a bad one in the bunch I'm surprised there's not one on the switch yet I guess there hasn't been an Olympics since the switch came out has there

Yikes. Looks super boring.