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The Olympic games have been over for a week now and you may feel like it's left a big space in your life. In fact, it's now a bit weird to turn on the TV and not see someone rowing or running (or crying). But don't worry – you don't have to wait until 2012 to fill that void again. Why, you can do it all again with the wonder of gaming!
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We were watching the Beijing Olympics at the weekend and got to nattering about how there's hardly any excitement around event-based sporting games anymore. Predictably the conversation took a rose-tinted turn towards the nostalgic and we all traded happy tales of masochistic joystick waggling and multi-load cassettes. No doubt other gamers with a memory for the shit old days will do the same. Here's five games that we reckon will fondle the memories of most old-schoolers at some point during the Olympics
Today marks the start of the 2008 Olympic games. And in order to spur on our Olympic heroes, while at the same time trying to fool our brains into thinking that we’re actually doing some exercise, we’ve tried and tested eight different ways of playing Beijing 2008. Some of which will be familiar, others definitely won’t be. But are any of them better than the good old jumper trick?
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