Look out, world. Here we come! You're about to travel the globe with Epyx to compete in eight of the world's most glamorous and unusual sports.

From Europe to the Far East, you'll be ocean-hopping to the sites where daring divers sail from rocky cliffs and giants of men match raw power in the sumo ring. You're going to be on their home turf. But it doesn't matter. You'll wipe them out.

In any language, you're about to experience the thrills of World Games. Bonne chance!

Review

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 by Dion Guy

After the well received Summer and Winter Games, Epyx turned their attention to various events from around the globe and brought us World Games. As before, you have the choice of which events to play, and can compete with up to 8 players (each picking a..

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User Comments

1. DEMON212 18 Apr 2008, 18:48 GMT

So is this worth the cash? Or is it a poor Cali games knock off? I know the sports are different, but I mean in general of "Wow, Cali was huge, let's make one ourselves and ride of its success".

2. Drake 18 Apr 2008, 19:07 GMT

It's by the same developer

In terms of quality they're about equal, this one has more events though so you could say this one is slightly better.

3. Adamant 19 Apr 2008, 00:18 GMT

I like this one better than California Games, but come on Epyx, bring us Summer Games and Winter Games already.

This one's actually older than California Games, so it can hardly be a ripoff.

4. DEMON212 20 Apr 2008, 02:00 GMT

I'm 20. The C64 was before my time, so I'm still learning. Now the Commodore AMIGA, that's MY time

5. William 22 Apr 2008, 09:46 GMT

Just been looking this up- this seems almost amusingly badly researched!

It has barrel jumping as the natinoal sport of Germany (from a bad encyclopedia), whgen that is apparently unknown, and it has the point of caber tossing wrong!

What other countries are on this game?

6. Roo 22 Apr 2008, 13:32 GMT

"SCOTLAND -- Caber Toss"

YES!!

7. Mr 64 23 Apr 2008, 12:18 GMT

One of my all time favourite multi-event sports games, featuring events from around the world of varying levels of insanity and joystick waggling. The graphics and sound are quite simplistic, but it's still great fun.

8. Kelvin 23 Apr 2008, 19:28 GMT

Crikey, I can't imagine how tricky the joystick-waggling events will be on a d-pad! I can foresee many busted analogue sticks...

9. Tony 25 Apr 2008, 01:17 GMT

Kinda like World Sports Comp.
Its better if you have 4-5 players because the computer is almost unbeatable.

10. witchfinder 25 Apr 2008, 11:55 GMT

@Kelvin: Most of the Epyx games don't have a massive amount of joystick-waggling, it's a more refined control method where you have to push the joystick (or d-pad) in the right direction at the right time...

WG is far superior to CG in my view - Caber Toss, Cliff Diving and Bull Riding are superb! And Log Rolling is great with 2 players!

11. DEMON212 25 Apr 2008, 17:47 GMT

Kelvin, Barrel Jump is hard, yes.

12. SomeGuyGG 26 Apr 2008, 16:42 GMT

Wow! Didn't expect to ever see this game again, used to love it back on the C64. What other game has log rolling and log tossing in it? Brilliant!

13. GoodOldTimes 26 Apr 2008, 17:40 GMT

Yeah,great, but i need WinterGames to be happy. This will give me that old feeling back...

14. Fireballmario 27 Apr 2008, 01:26 GMT

Come on how long does America have to wait untill the C64 games come on to the VC!!!!Well this, The Last Ninja, and Calfornia Games are th only C64 games I would get except for maybe Uridium.

15. cheesedude 28 Apr 2008, 07:12 GMT

I think this got a gold medal rating in ZZAP64 magazine when it first came out. I used to love this game and played it all the time. The sumo was always really hard to win.

After downloading it, I think it's safe to say that some games are best left as fond memories...

16. timp29 28 Apr 2008, 09:00 GMT

Did summer games have the 100m sprint??
Is there anyone else who played the c64 game with the sprint? In it you had to wobble the joystick left-right as fast as possible to run. My question is, did that destroy your joysticks??
I remember snapping one or two because they just couldnt take the repetitive wobbling. I ended up with a few joystick bases, with a chopstick or something stuck in there to keep some functionality lol.

17. cheesedude 28 Apr 2008, 20:46 GMT

I can't remember if summer games had the sprint, but daley thompsons decathlon was a real joystick destroyer. Back then I had a konix speedking, what an excellent stick that was. I certainly broke more than my fair share of sticks during my 64/amiga days. Happy times indeed.

18. Reid 06 May 2008, 15:59 GMT

How had I missed this!!! I am 23, and getting my masters in Computer Science, but the C64 was my first computer. I used to play this game (and some other great C64 games) with my brother. I loved barrel jumping and cliff diving! I highly suggest this game if it is half as fun as I remember it!

19. ICEknight 10 May 2008, 07:09 GMT

...Wasn't the Master System version better?

20. stephen c 12 Jul 2008, 01:33 GMT

I remember when I first played this, it was great. All those different events!! The loading time was shocking (I had the tape version) but it was worth it, no doubt. The only other one in this series worth having in my opinion is winter games. California games was ok but not up to the standard of this or winter games. This is well worth a play or 2 or 3, hell once you start you may never give up!!! lol