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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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+---
+title: Video Olympics
+tags:
+- ball and paddle
+- basketball
+- football
+- handball
+- hockey
+- sport
+- tennis
+- volleyball
+years:
+- '1977'
+params:
+  specs:
+  - label: year of release
+    value: '1977'
+  - label: companies
+    value: Atari
+  - label: type
+    value: game
+  - label: media
+    value: cartridge
+  - label: requirement
+    value: Atari paddles
+  - label: systems
+    value: Atari 2600
+  - label: number of players
+    value: 1 - 4 players (versus)
+  - label: staff
+    value: Joe Decuir
+  screenshots:
+  - title: Pong / Robot Pong
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Pong 4
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Pong 4-I
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Super Pong
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Super Pong 4
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Soccer
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Soccer 4-I
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Soccer 4-II
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Foozpong
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Foozpong 4
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Hockey
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Hockey II
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Hockey III
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Hockey 4-I
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Hockey 4-II
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Quadrapong
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Handball
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Handball II
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Volleyball
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Volleyball 4
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Basketball
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: Basketball 4
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: cartridge - image label
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: cartridge - text label
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: ''
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  machines:
+  - /museum/atari-vcs-2600
+  company: /companies/atari
+  oc_id: 422
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230529162052/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=422
+    date: '2023-05-29'
+---
+
+Video Olympics was one of the nine games originally released with the Atari VCS in 1977. The developpers goal was apparently to make the ultimate Pong compilation on one cartridge.
+
+Indeed all previous Pong variants created by Atari (mostly in the arcades) can be found in Video Olympics one way or another.
+
+\- the original [Pong](/software/pong/) (1972) game of course,\
+\- [Pong Doubles](/software/pong-doubles/) (1973), called here Pong 4-I,\
+\- [Superpong](/software/superpong/) (1974),\
+\- [Quadrapong](/software/quadrapong/) (1974),\
+\- [Rebound](/software/rebound/) (1974), called here Volleyball
+
+The games included into this Video Olympics are:\
+\- Pong,\
+\- Super Pong,\
+\- Soccer,\
+\- Foozpong,\
+\- Hockey,\
+\- Quadrapong,\
+\- Handball,\
+\- Volleyball,\
+\- Basketball\
+\+ variations for each game (Speed-up, Whammy, Catch, Jump)
+
+In 1978, Atari released a kind of arcade version of this cartridge called "[Tournament Table](/software/tournament-table/)"! Sources say that the hardware of the Tournament Table is almost an Atari VCS. The list of games inlcuded are: Breakout, Soccer I, Soccer II, Foozpong, Hockey I, Hockey II, Hockey III, Quadrapong, Handball, Volleyball, Basketball I and Basketball II. Only Breakout has been added instead of Pong and Super Pong.