Epyx : The Games & Street Sports Series Documentary 

I'm a huge fan of the Games series, and watching this makes me realize I ignored The Games: Summer and Winter editions completely. The footage of both was completely new to me, and the Summer Edition looks especially impressive. It's really weird that I've never tried them! Nice work on the documentary as always, thanks.

Ahhh great memories of being 10 years old and playing the hell out of the Street Sports series and California Games on the 64 on a tiny little TV in Aus back in the late 80s.

To me Epyx is the most iconic game studio ever for the Commodore 64, all the games they made are excellent. Some of my best memories of my teen years was playing all these awesome games with my friends, every weekend i brought my C64 to a friends house (our usual spot for gathering)... man i miss those times...

I feel the reason the later Games weren’t well received and received lower score in reviews was that in 88 the bar had been raised by 16 bit machines such as the Amiga and Atari ST lines. Absolutely the 88 titles were incredible for the c64. But compared to Amiga titles they were lacking. As always, lovely video. Very informative.

Another stunningly edited, produced video packed full of information on the great team and games Epyx produced. Fantastic era in C64 sport simulations and many happy memories playing the games. Out of them all Winter games will always be my favourite, love the graphics and SFX on this one.

It would be pretty nice if someone would do Apshai Documentary. That's a series of great games that I completely missed on C64

Great point about the Indian tourist board, I spat out my coffee, hahaha. And you're right "You Spin Me Right Round..." Was on the radio literally every single f*ing second of the bloody day! Another great video buddy, keep em coming. I'd love a dedicated video to Space Rouge!

Street Sports Baseball was actually a very creative and fun baseball sim….. very imaginative and well done, showing characteristics that made the c64 so unique

Cool feature of Summer Games II was the ability to include all Summer Games I events, if you had the first release. This expanded the scale of the multiplayer event. We'd often be able to round up enough friends to go 8 players at times.

I'm not familiar with Puzzle Panic 1:58 but that cover art immediately makes my brain go "woo-OO-ooooo" (Doctor Who theme)

Bastich, you've done it again! Great look back at some of the finest c64 game(serie)s ever! Epyx were really pushing the boundaries here.

I love that you appreciated Summer edition too, that was one of my favourites back in the day. On the Amiga version the hurdles was improved to 400m with 3D graphics. I practiced Winter Edition a lot to try to squeeze some joy out of it as I felt that maybe I just needed to be better. Winter Games was an epic week of my childhood as we filled the back room of my parents' house for 7/8 player games every night!

Great overview of the Games series by Epyx. Thanks for making a great video!

Great video B, I liked the sports games from Epyx too...many joysticks didn't survive the battles I had with my friends on the c64 over these games ...... what a great time it was ;-)

Started releasing some of these on Steam in recent months. This is the best video online about them honestly.

I've learned many national anthems back then thanks to Epix Summer Games. I remember selecting Japan just to piss off my friends since it was the longest anthem, we stood on top of the seat with one hand on our hearts to listen to them as if we were from that country! Many great memories!

Wow, the choreography segment of The Games: Winter Edition is the closest other game I have ever seen to my childhood guilty pleasure Dance Fantasy, and it has so many similarities I wonder if that was a weird inspiration?

Great video. Never played any of the street games but loved both Summer Games and Winter Games. The biathlon was a favourite in our house.

What a great video, thankyou, brought back so many memories!

Great documentary again! Thanks BB!

Admire your hard work and frequent uploads, ild think it takes up all of your spare time!! Keep up the great work.

awesome games awesome documentary! thx bastich for another nice time to spend watching this!

Always a good day when there is a new BastichB video posted. Epyx sure used that impossible mission running animation a but, it is so smooth after all.

Well done, another excellent documentary. Keep up the good work.

Epyx were great but the ambition of those Starpath guys was greater. Just remarkable that they followed up Turbocharger with Summer Games. I didn't even know that. I love them because they made the first console RPG with Dragonstomper. All JRPGs did was add anime to the formula. Makes you wonder what Starpath would've done if it wasn't for the crash. Their greatness was short-lived. I'd ask for a documentary but there's not much to say about them. People blame the crash on bad games but I actually blame people like Starpath. It wasn't6 because of bad games, it was because the 2600 was stuck in 1977 while the rest of the gaming world was racing to the future. I mean, the Commodore 64 came out just a few months before the crash. I think how great arcade games looked in 1983 did the most damage. But I don't blame Atari. It was a new market. They were the leaders. They didn't want to shake up an industry they didn't understand yet. A very modern day mindset that failed them back then. There was a crash in the same way there was a Super Nintendo "crash" when the PlayStation came out. Sure they had the 5200 but that was just a repackaged 800, which was the exact same mistake Commodore made with the CD32. Nintendo are only called the saviors because the Colecovision made the worst computer ever made and sank their own company. Meanwhile Intellivision were stuck in 1979 and Atari made a console with no sound. Ha. Yeah, well. Epyx, great company. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

The Virgin Epic Games Vs. The CHAD Epyx Computer Software

I had forgotten totally about the later winter and summer games but I must have played them as the nostalgia came back when they came on, time to break out the mister and give them a go again !

Fantastic video. I didn't play the street sports titles at all so I will have to check them out. Summer Games and Winter Games were a staple at my house though.

i've been playing a lot of winter games these days! marvelous video! keep up the great work ❤🕹

Hi from the UK mate ! I absolutely love this video and I love your channel its full of really interesting stuff, you obviously do tons of research for the videos to make them so interesting keep up the brilliant work ! Cheers !!

Guess I clicked the link at exactly the right (or wrong) moment, but very nice video! 😄👍

Great video.. brought back so many memories 👍

Great doco as always! The Games series, especially California Games, got smashed at my house as a kid, and I loved the baseball and basketball games despite being an Aussie, but it's so sad how each of those series sorta just fizzled out... Thanks for the great trip down memory lane mate!

Another great video!

Another epic show, thanks a lot Brendan! I liked Summer Games 1 and California Games best.

I loved World Games! And I just had a random thought while thinking about wacky games: I wonder what an Epyx adaption of Takeshi's Castle would've looked and played like, and I'm sad we will never know.

Great work bashB!! Thank you. Do you remember Knight Games onC64?

fantastic as always - seemed to not come up in the recent video "uploads" list like most others, fyi, so some might miss it

You fo fanatic work. Keep it up.

A bit part of Summer Games II for me was being able to combine it with Summer Games, that’s genius

Epyx owned the C64

Have you done a video on First Star Software? I used to play the basketball, baseball, and boxing games a ton, and remember them to be quite popular. I would like to learn more about the company...

I played all the games in question and I loved they, and as for fencing: In the late 90's I joined a fencing club. I took up sabre. Fencing in Summer Games II is actually an accurate representation of the sport - yes it's rather clunky - but accurate.

Epyx, Accolade, Access and Gamestar, about 90% of my C64 life

These games were brilliant. My brother and I played these early games all the time. Although I played California games on the PC with the built in speaker. That was not fun. Must look at the street series.

Nice work! I played all of the Games series on the C64, but I probably played World Games the most. I liked some of the events in the other ones, but I think that one had the most events that appealed to me. One thing you didn't mention is that if you had both Summer Games I & II, it was possible to load in the events from the first game and play them all as one big game. Street Sports Baseball was the one game in that series that I played. I was never a sports fan, so most sports games didn't appeal to me. To be honest, I didn't expect to like SS Baseball either. I'd tried other baseball games, but found them boring. Although the players have different stats, you really don't notice a big difference when you're playing and they all look alike. SS Baseball was the first game where the different characters not only looked different, they had visible differences in the way they played. I was always disappointed that they never ported it to the Amiga. When the other Street Sports games came out, I didn't like that the players were now wearing colored uniforms. I understand that this was necessary so that you can keep track of who's on your team, but I thought it took away some of the unique look of the characters, which was what appealed to me in the first place.

The intro of The Games: Summer Edition was the best graphic intro i've ever seen on a computer in 1988. To collect discs in a paper box is also a good idea. What kind of paper box is it?

Love the games! I always wondered about California Games II, do you know about that one? Not released for the c64 unfortunately...

You deserve 64K followers.

Each Games series that came out were played less and less by us. I ended up not playing World Games nearly as much, and The Games Winter/Summer barely at all.

I had the cracked version of Cailfornia GAMES by Eagle Soft! 😄

Great content 👍👍👍i really enjoyed to look back at all these games that i played in the 80's. About street soccer, at the time, i had a street soccer game but it wasn't this one (it was with vertical scrolling) and was far more good than this one... Obviously i don't know the real name of that game. 😁

This video reminds me of something I forgot I missed ... AFAIR, there never was an Ultimate Frisbee videogame. I remember back in the day, I tried to come up with some ideas of how to make Ultimate Frisbee (on the C64 of course), but I didn't understand how the game worked enough to do it. If I were to do an Ultimate Frisbee game now, I'd have to admit I don't really understand the game well enough to do it justice. So, I'd go with a SpeedBall or Pigskin style game which is inspired by Ultimate Frisbee, but not 100% faithful to the original game.

You like Street Sports Baseball more than Sporting News, also from Epyx? I'll have to give Streets Sports a try, but I thought Sporting News was really good.

Good old times , I was crazy about part biathlon in winter games ... Why don't I see a video of Samanta Fox strip poker anywhere , not that special game was but still we had never seen that then on the c64. With her Big Guns haha Maybe a tip for a short video B ;)) go crazy.

It seems like the reviewers were far from independent when forming thier opinion of these games. they seem to be advertisements rather than reviews