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| Summer Events | | Title: | Summer Events |
| Category: | Game/Sport |
| Release Date: | 1987 |
| Language: | English |
| Size: | 16K |
| Machine: | PAL Only |
| Code Type: | Machine code |
| Distribution: | Commercial/PD |
| Retail Price: | Cassette £9.95, Disc &po |
| Produced by: | Kingsoft |
| Released by: | Anco |
| Coded by: | Gertz, Udo |
| Music composed by: | Gertz, Brigitte |
| Notes: | The last C16/Plus4 creation by Udo Gertz which is one of the most astounding C16/Plus4 games ever released! The game was released in germany as "Sommer Olympiade" by Kingsoft. |
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| Oddities from Adverts | Summer Events shows all the Kingsoft's great skills and knowledge, and still nowadays it continues to astonish the users due to the big amount of details they stored in less than 16K. Getting success in optimize the whole thing would appear to be a tough work, and probably that's the reason why it's possible to spot out some differences comparing the actual ingame screens with older screenshots published in various advertising material.
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In the German magazine Compute Mit issue 87-1, a silver coloured advert page had been published, showing: the best awarded hit Winter Olympiade, and the forthcoming Sommer Olympiade, roughly claimed to be out in January 1987. For the latter one, three screens were shown in that advert, and two of them (Cycling and Pole Vault) will never change, both in adverts and official back cover.
The third of them, a Platform Diving screenshot, is a very rare game shot, showing an early version of pool's backdrop with different elements.
In the following issue of Compute Mit (issue 87-2), a new advert will show the actual graphics for Platform Diving event, leaving to us all the curiosity about that strange brown oblique stuff. |  | On both adverts and cover, this is the screenshot about the Opening Ceremony in the beginning of the game.
The whole stadium's upper slice appears to be almost the same of Winter Events opening ceremony, with flags, clouds, crowd and all the rest, and with no athletics track and entrance gates. Flags order is changed, and the white mountain peaks had been erased.
The pole vault installation looks very different, even in colour and in positional perspective. Examining the little picture, it's not sure the colour for the running torch-bearer was originally black. |
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At a very first sight, Javelin event's graphics seem to be the actual one. After a better examination, there are two elements that differ from the final game.
The stadium's lower bounds appear to be different, a bit more complex in the design, using certain graphic elements very close to their equivalent in the Butterfly Swimming event.
Although it's difficult to see in the screenshot, the athletics track is spotted by some dirt and pebbles. |  | The Pole Vault screenshot had never been changed in the whole advertising operation of the game, and reached the official game's cover untouched and unchanged. The strange fact is that: it looks heavily different compared to the actual game.
The stadium reaches the top of the screen, and without waving flags, because the higher stadium used in Winter Events Opening Ceremony here merges with the new entrance gates. Also, the elements we previously noticed in the Javelin's screenshot, can be found here too: stadium bounds and track's dirt.
There's dirt also in the green field and on the vault's track, and both field and track don't show the horizontal perspective coloured lines. The design for the track is someways different too.
The pillow on the right is very different, white skirted and with light dirt all around. Mainly, the positional perspective is completely different, though the two rods that keep up the bar seem to be the same.
The main sprite looks absolutely different in shape animation and colours. The man has brown skin, wears in black and doesn't have white elements on him apart of the pole itself. He holds his pole under an arm, and not over his head like in the actual game. |
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| Cassette Back Cover: English Instructions | 
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| Leaflet: German Instructions | 
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