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1977 video game
1977 video game
Video Olympics
Developer(s)
Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s)
Atari, Inc.
Designer(s)
Joe Decuir[1]
Platform(s)
Atari 2600
Release
NA: September 11, 1977
Genre(s)
Sports
Mode(s)
Single-player, multiplayer
Video Olympics is a video game programmed by Joe Decuir for the Atari 2600. It is one of the nine 2600 launch titles Atari, Inc. published when the 2600 system was released in September 1977. The cartridge is a collection of games from Atari's popular arcade Pong series. A similar collection in arcade machine form called Tournament Table was published by Atari in 1978.[2]
Video Olympics was rebranded by Sears as Pong Sports.
^Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009). Racing the Beam. MIT Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-262-01257-7.
^Tournament Table at the Killer List of Videogames
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