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Starting with the 1980 Moscow Olympics, an official or unofficial Olympic tie-in video game has been released to coincide with all of the Olympic Games. [ 1 ] Officially-licensed Olympic video games
Olympic Decathlon is a sports video game written by Timothy W. Smith for the TRS-80 and published in 1980 by Microsoft. [1] In the game, the player competes in ten track and field events. The gold medalist for decathlon in the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics, Caitlyn Jenner (then known as Bruce Jenner), is a character.
The game was originally released in Japan for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on July 24, 2019. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the start of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the game was not released outside of Japan and East Asia until June 2021, when it also released for Windows, Stadia, and Xbox One. The game features ...
Track & Field, also known as Hyper Olympic [a] in Japan and Europe, is an Olympic-themed sports video game developed by Konami and released as an arcade video game in 1983. The Japanese release featured an official license for the 1984 Summer Olympics.
London 2012: The Official Video Game is the official Olympic video game of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. It was published by Sega and developed by Sega Studios Australia , making this the first Olympics title to be developed in-house by Sega.
The game allows the player to practice, play mini-Olympics (where some events can be turned off) or full Olympics. There are three difficulty levels (club, national and Olympic) with noticeable differences from each other: computer-controlled athletes are actually capable of breaking world and Olympic records at the higher levels, while achieving only mediocre results on lower levels.
Torino 2006 is the official video game of the XX Olympic Winter Games, hosted by Torino, Italy in 2006. Developed by German studio 49Games and published by 2K (and I-play), it was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.
Beijing 2008 is the official Olympic video game of the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing.Developed by Eurocom and published by Sega, the game was the second video game based on the 2008 Summer Olympics to be released, the first being the fantasy-based Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games which appeared in late 2007; however, Beijing 2008 is a realistic sports simulation.