International Athletics description
Multifaceted sports game from Spanish developers, dedicated to 1992 Olympics, and on various events in athletics. In Spain the game was published under the title Olympic Games 92.
Intro screen. Spanish version: Intro screen.
Competitions eight – running the 100 and 110 m, long jump, high and triple, as well as javelin and disk and shot put, - that is, the variety is quite impressive. However, the game itself is very unusual and, I must say, not too much like most other sports games. Her office formally (only formally!) very simple: in every competition you will only need at certain times to press one or two keys: for example, in the 100m, you only need time to press the "start" button and indicate on the "slider" basic running speed; then will only have to monitor the progress of the competition, and about the same in all other disciplines (although in the same run on 110 m more interactivity). Unfortunately, I must admit that in very many cases the outcome of the contest still depends on the case.
Title screen and main menu. Digitized photos introduce each of the eight events. 100 Metres. You adjust the red bar on the top of the screen to determine the athlete's speed. Long Jump.
There are two game modes "practice", which, despite the name, is not really education, but simply the mode where you can choose any of the tournaments to play, and "competitions" where the competition is held strictly sequentially, and if you are in some lose, then the game can not move. For this mode you are able to choose from three levels of difficulty, which in this game consist of different weather conditions and the strength of the wind (visually it does not appear, but the result can affect, as if the same rain to compete harder). The game also has the ability to play two or even four with one computer (with dual screen).
High Jump. Essentially the same as long jump. Javelin. The results of the throwing events are displayed from a top-down view.
But the most unique, what is not, perhaps, in any other similar game, is the presence in International Athletics the concept of "doping". The doping can give their athletes, and to require checks on him after the competition (and your competitors can do it too), and the test results can be very different and do not always correspond to the truth.
Graphically, the game looks very unusual – very nice, but unfortunately, slightly at the expense of playability. The fact that the backgrounds here, though bright, but without much detail, but the participants of the Games, especially for large plans are more like digitized pictures, which sometimes look pretty blurry. In addition, the contest (its course) is also shown almost frame-by-frame, which may not suit some gamers.
But in General, such a singularity is the game only benefit really stand out from the crowd. Given the fact that a lot of athletics simulation was never the game can be recommended as a valuable acquisition to the collection of any fan of old sports games.
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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com