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With the Olympic Cauldron lit for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, why not reflect over the past 28 years of Olympic related software? I take you through a brief tour, starting with the keyboard-bashing antics of the Apple ][, past the broken joysticks of the 8-bit computers, to the official IOC games for the consoles of the day.

Olympic Special Playlist:
Timothy W. SmithOlympic DecathlonApple ][1981Danny GloverSummer GamesCPC1984/7EpyxWinter GamesVCS1984/7Jonathan DunnDaley Thompson's Olympic ChallengeZX1281988Wally BabenSummer OlympiadST1988Wally BabenWinter Olympiad 88C641988US GoldOlympic GoldSMD1992Tim HaywoodLillehammer '94AMI1994Mark OrtizAtlanta '96SNES1996Shin'en MultimediaSalt Lake 2002GBA2002GorillazBBC Olympics Coverage 2008C64?2008

With thanks to:
TACGR - http://tacgr.emuunlim.com
AtariAge - www.atariage.com
Project AY - www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay
www.atari.st
Lemon 64 - www.lemon64.com
Lemon Amiga - www.lemonamiga.com
http://dekku.blogspot.com
G.G. EuDraco uses Applewin, WinAPE, x26, Winamp, DGen, ZSNES and Visual Boy Advance

Stereo podcast, due to stereo soundchips!