Video Olympics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Video Olympics was an early video game cartridge made by Atari for the Atari 2600. It was one of the nine original launch titles for that system when it was released in October of 1977. The game was a port of Atari's popular Pong series. It was also released by Sears for their Atari 2600 clone (the Sears Video Arcade) under the title Pong Sports. As with the earlier Pong arcade game and home console, the game uses the paddle controller. The game is for 1 to 4 players (4 players requires two sets of paddle controllers).

[edit] Gameplay

Video Olympics is basically a collection of Atari's variations of Pong with extra Pong-based sports (hence the titles Video Olympics and Pong Sports). The Video Olympics cartridge includes the following games :