Olympic Gold was the first officially licensed game

"Olympic" videogames is the usual name given to sports video games including more than one event of several sports. They are one of the older video game genres, having its first hit with the 1983 arcade classic Track & Field. Since then, several titles were released, usually in a six-month time before the Olympic Games the game was expected to cather. Official IOC licenses became a norm since the first official game, Olympic Gold, released in time for the 1992 Summer Olympics. Image File history File links Olympic Gold Mega Drive cover, scanned by wS for wikipedia File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Olympic Gold Mega Drive cover, scanned by wS for wikipedia File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... Alternative meanings at IOC (disambiguation) The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organize this sports event every four years. ... Olympic Gold is the official video game of the XXV Olympic Summer Games, hosted by Barcelona, Spain in 1992. ... The Games of the XXV Olympiad were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ...

Companies like Epyx, Accolade, U.S. Gold and Konami developed some of the best games in this genre, that is usually sidelooked by the gaming industry and considered few more than novelty or memorabilia. Gameplay is the common target for detractors, since it usually consists of the button mashing formula used in Track & Field. Epyx, Inc. ... This article is about the video game developer. ... U.S. Gold was a British computer and video game publisher and developer from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s, producing numerous titles on a variety of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit platforms. ... Konami Corporation (コナミ) (NYSE: KNM) is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling computer and video games. ... Novelty is the quality of being new. ... A souvenir stall in London, England A souvenir (from the French for memory) is an object that is treasured for the memories associated with it. ... Button mashing is the term given to repeated button presses over a short period. ...

However, since they are released in regular periods of time, they can be used as a way to compare how graphics evolved: from the CGA graphics of the first Epyx titles to the 3D graphics of Athens 2004. CGA may stand for: Certified General Accountant Color Graphics Adapter This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The rewrite of this article is being devised at Talk:3D computer graphics/Temp. ...

Official games

• Barcelona 1992 - Olympic Gold by US Gold
• Lillehammer 1994 - Winter Olympics: Lillehammer 94 by US Gold
• Atlanta 1996 - Olympic Summer Games (16-bit) and Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996 (32 bit) by US Gold
• Nagano 1998 - Nagano Winter Olympics '98 by Konami
• Sydney 2000 - Sydney 2000 by ATD
• Salt Lake City 2002 - Salt Lake 2002 by ATD
• Athens 2004 - Athens 2004 by Eurocom Entertainment Software

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Not official

• Microsoft Decathlon by Microsoft
• Winter Games by Epyx
• Summer Games (I and II) by Epyx
• The Games: Winter Edition by Epyx
• The Games: Summer Edition by Epyx (Official Game of the USOC for the 1988 Summer Olympics)
• The Games: Summer Challenge by Accolade
• The Games: Winter Challenge by Accolade
• Track & Field series by Konami

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Games on other genres with another Olympic related license

• Team USA Basketball, released for the Barcelona 1992 Basketball tournament with a USOC license
• Olympic Soccer, released for the Atlanta 1996 football tournament
• Izzy's Quest For The Olympic Rings, platformer based on Atlanta Games' mascot
• Actua Ice Hockey, released for the Nagano 1998 ice hockey tournament