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The Games: Summer Edition was officially licensed by the United States Olympic team in 1988.^[2]

The Games: Summer Edition begins with an opening non-interactable sequence showing scenes of Korea with music.^[3] The player picks their name, chooses their country to represent, and their players.^[4] There are eight events: Target archery,^[b] 1000m cycling time trial, Springboard diving, Hammer throwing, 400m hurdles, Pole vaulting, Gymnasium rings, and Parallel bars.^[c] The player selects an event via moving a Olympic torch icon to the event.^[17] The Games: Summer Edition has multiplayer support of up to eight players.^[18] The game offers a help option and a testing mode for the events.^[19] On disk drive versions of the game, the player can save records they make on the disk.^[5] The Games: Summer Edition ends with a closing non-interactable sequence showing scenes of [...].^[5]

Archery makes the player shoot at a target.^[7] Wind affects their trajectory.^[15] The player adjust how much strength they want to use.^[15] If the player hits a bullseye, a bunny skips side to side.^[7] Shooting bellow the target spawns a nearsighted mole and shooting above the target kills a bird.^[7]

The 1000m cycling time trial matches the player against a bot.^[7] The player uses their joystick to cycle, speed up and slow up, go left to right to prevent colliding with the bot, and maintain energy to avoid being burnt out during the event.^[21]

In Springboard diving, the player can change the diving board tension before they dive.^[22] The event is viewed in a side-on point-of-view.^[5] The player can choose to dive from the front or from the back, eight times each.^[23] Then the player picks moves to perform using their joystick.^[24] Each player dives three times. Judges give points in five categories – the type of dives; the combination of dives; the variation of dives; the entry into the water – from 0–5 each for an overall rating.^[25] ST Format wrote that the dives are graded by how difficult they are to perform.^[15]

Hammer throwing makes the player use their joystick to throw the hammer.^[5] The player can fail Hammer throwing by flailing the hammer to the head, not releasing the hammer and skyrocketing off the screen, hurling the hammer towards the screen and "breaking" it, or flinging the hammer into the protecting fence, breaking it.^[7]

In the 400m hurdles, [...] If the player fell over a single time during the event, they fail it.^[26]

During Pole vaulting, [...] This event is viewed from "the end of the pole" but switches to a side-on point-of-view as the player is vaulting.^[5]

Gymnasium rings [...] During the event, the player gains points for the style of moves they preform and for the content of moves.^[7]

In Parallel bars, the player moves back and forth doing moves.^[7] The player can fall to the floor, get injured by slamming the pelvis to a bar, and be laughed at.^[5]

An easter egg is in the credits where... THE EVOLUTION OF SUMMER GAMES. retro gamer

The Games: Summer Edition was released in December 1988.^[16]

Writing for Amiga Computing, Stewart C. Russell criticized the game for lacking Boxing as a playable event.^[20]

The Games: Summer Edition has been included in the Antstream Arcade collection of games,^[37] and is included as part of The Epyx Games: Sports Collection released for the Nintendo Switch on November 28, 2024.^[1] It has described by Peer Schneider in 2024, as a game that was not "able to recapture the excitement of [its' series'] earlier titles."^[2]