185 · California Games
California Games was the original "Extreme Games" – what today's generation might call "X-Games in the sun". Players can select sponsors (absent in some versions) and compete in events such as skateboarding, footbag, surfing, roller skating, flying disc (frisbee) and BMX. The surfing event is ranked by judges, which give a score to help the players improve their routine.
SHOW NOTES
California Games Gameplay
California Games II
Skate or Die Episode
Guitar Hero
S-Ranking
Show notes
- Now the summer will surely last forever
- NES Longplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JEAeUXg4Zo
- Introductions
- Gameplay
- Skateboarding
- Momementum built by pressing up and down
- Could only do the kick turns
- These GAMES always have this weird timing mechanic that doesn’t translate for me
- Footbag
- I wasn’t expecting to use my head so much
- Lots of moves
- Surfing
- Judges are a good feature
- roller skating
- Obstacle course. I feel like these try to show you how difficult it can be. But I don’t wanna play as a novice rollerskater.
- flying disc (frisbee)
- This was my jam, even if it was simple.
- Timing mechanic made it easy
- BMX
- Skateboarding
- Thoughts
- California Games appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
- With more than 300,000 copies sold in the first nine mmonths, it was the most-successful Epyx game, outselling each of the four previous and two subsequent titles in the company's "Games" series.
- What’s the legacy fo the EPYX GAMES series. Is it the same as every version of Madden except the current one?
- This should’ve taken the Skate or Die approach
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- California Games II - SNES and other platforms
- EGL
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