Here's yet another multi-event sports game, but one that doesn't involve any; waggling or keyboard-bashing. It features five sports: weightlifting, canoeing, 100 metres, skeet-shoonng and discus. I don't think most armchair athletes are going to find much here to interest them.  
Weightlifting is the first event. You have to lift gradually heavier weights to reach a qualifying level. The lifter i3 poorly drawn and animated. You: method of making lifts is ever, worse: a pointer spins around a circle at the bottom of the screen, and when it's pointing straight up you have to press Fire to stop it. Get it nght and it's a good lift, miss it and you lose one of your three lives As the weights get heavier thé pointer spins faster The second event, canoeing, has better graphics but familiar very simple game-play. Your canoe (a kayak, actually) appears in the middle of the screen, viewed from above, and the occupant paddles with just two frames of animation. Rocks appear at the bottom of the screen and move up it . You have to move left and right to avoid their. If you hit a rock a life is lost, otherwise you have to complete a certain distance down the course. The 100 metres is next. Here the animation is better but the gameplay just as bad. The run stays -m one spot on the screen while the crowd jerks by behind him. To make him run faster you have to press Fire in conjunction with a spuming pointer, as in even! one, but this time you have to keep repeating it to keep the speed up and make the qualifying tune. The fourth event is skeet-shooting, although by this time you'll probably want to do a bit of author-shooting. A cui'soi and two trees appear on screen and from the bottom of the screen a grey brick will spin up. You have to put the cursor over it and press Fire to destroy it before it flies off screen. A set number of skeets have to be shot, but hitting more gets you more points. 
Wouldn't you like a body like this?
The final event (heavy sigh of relief) is the discus. You first have to set the power of the throw with the familiar spinning pointer and then the angle by stopping a number tliat gradually increases. This time a white spinning bnck moves across screen and you hope it passes the qualifying distance. Then it's back to; the first event. Go through it all again with the qualifying getting tougher until you lose all three lives. The graphics are dismal, the sound is hopeless, the gameplay is horribly simple and even at £3 it's a waste of money. The fact that it's budget software is no longer an ex cuse for bad product like this. BW, AMSTRAD ACTION n°14
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