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Video Olympics	ball and paddle basketball football handball hockey sport tennis volleyball	1977	image specs screenshots machines company oc_id source /media/museum/software/atari_2600_video-olympics_box_1_m.jpg label value year of release 1977 label value companies Atari label value type game label value media cartridge label value requirement Atari paddles label value systems Atari 2600 label value number of players 1 - 4 players (versus) label value staff Joe Decuir title subtitle text image Pong / Robot Pong /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29.png title subtitle text image Pong 4 /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_1.png title subtitle text image Pong 4-I /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_2.png title subtitle text image Super Pong /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_3.png title subtitle text image Super Pong 4 /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_4.png title subtitle text image Soccer /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_5.png title subtitle text image Soccer 4-I /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_6.png title subtitle text image Soccer 4-II /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_7.png title subtitle text image Foozpong /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_8.png title subtitle text image Foozpong 4 /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_9.png title subtitle text image Hockey /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_10.png title subtitle text image Hockey II /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_11.png title subtitle text image Hockey III /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_12.png title subtitle text image Hockey 4-I /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_13.png title subtitle text image Hockey 4-II /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_14.png title subtitle text image Quadrapong /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_15.png title subtitle text image Handball /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_17.png title subtitle text image Handball II /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_18.png title subtitle text image Volleyball /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_19.png title subtitle text image Volleyball 4 /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_20.png title subtitle text image Basketball /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_21.png title subtitle text image Basketball 4 /media/museum/software/video%20olympics%20%281978%29%20%28atari%29_22.png title subtitle text image cartridge - image label /media/museum/software/atari_2600_video-olympics_cart_1.jpg title subtitle text image cartridge - text label /media/museum/software/atari_2600_video-olympics_cart_2.jpg title subtitle text image /media/museum/software/atari_2600_video-olympics_box_1.jpg /museum/atari-vcs-2600 /companies/atari 422 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230529162052/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=422 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 (1972) game of course,
- Pong Doubles (1973), called here Pong 4-I,
- Superpong (1974),
- Quadrapong (1974),
- 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"! 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.