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((More citations needed|date=May 2015))
((short description|1977 video game))
((Infobox video game
|title = Video Olympics
|image = Volympics.jpg
|caption =
|developer = [[Atari, Inc.]]
|publisher = Atari, Inc.
|designer = [[Joseph C. Decuir|Joe Decuir]]<ref>((cite book|last1=Montfort|first1=Nick|last2=Bogost|first2=Ian|title=Racing the Beam|publisher=[[MIT Press]]|year=2009|isbn=978-0-262-01257-7|title-link=Racing the Beam|author-link2=Ian Bogost|author-link1=Nick Montfort|page=163))</ref>
|released = ((vgrelease|NA|September 11, 1977))
|genre = [[Sports game|Sports]]
|modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]], [[multiplayer]]
|platforms = [[Atari 2600]]
))

'''''Video Olympics''''' is a [[video game]] programmed by Joe Decuir for the [[Atari 2600]]. It is one of the nine 2600 [[launch title]]s [[Atari, Inc.]] published when the 2600 system was released in September 1977. The cartridge is a collection of games from Atari's popular arcade ''[[Pong]]'' series. A similar collection in arcade machine form called ''[[Tournament Table]]'' was published by Atari in 1978.<ref>((KLOV game|id=10177|name=Tournament Table))</ref>

''Video Olympics'' was rebranded by [[Sears, Roebuck and Company|Sears]] as '''''Pong Sports'''''.

==Gameplay==
The games are a collection of bat-and-ball style games, including several previously released by [[Atari, Inc.]] as arcade games. The games use the Video Computer System's [[paddle (game controller)|paddle controllers]],<ref>((cite web | url=https://atariage.com/manual_html_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=587 | title=AtariAge - Atari 2600 Manuals (HTML) - Video Olympics (Atari) ))</ref> and are for one to four players (three or four players requires a second set of paddles).

===Games===
[[Image:VideoOlympics.png|thumb|The Hockey variation]]

''Video Olympics'' includes 50 games and variations:<ref name=kaplan/>((rp|30))

* [[Pong]] - The classic [[table tennis]] simulation.<ref name=kunkel/>((rp|42))
* [[Super Pong]] - A ''Pong'' variation where each player has two paddles.<ref name=kunkel/>((rp|42))
* Robot Pong - A solitaire ''Pong'' variation.<ref name=kunkel/>((rp|42))
* Pong Doubles
* [[Elimination (arcade game)|Quadrapong]] - A four-player, four-wall ''Pong'' variation.<ref name=kunkel/>((rp|42))
* Foozpong - Based on [[Table football|Foozball]], this ''Pong'' variant has the players control a vertical three-paddle column.<ref name=kunkel/>((rp|42))
* [[Football (soccer)|Soccer]]<ref>((Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197807/page/n39/mode/2up|title = Creative Computing (Better Scan) 1978 07|date = July 1978))</ref>
* Handball - A [[American handball|handball]] simulation.<ref name=kunkel/>((rp|42))
* [[Ice hockey]]
* Hockey III - An [[ice hockey]] simulation where players can catch and shoot the puck at the opposing goal.<ref name=kunkel/>((rp|42))
* Basketball - A [[basketball]] simulation.<ref name=kunkel/>((rp|42))
* Volleyball - A [[volleyball]] simulation where the traditional (''Pong''-style) left-right volley is swapped for a top-bottom volley. Players can volley or [[Spike (Volleyball)|spike]].<ref name=kunkel/>((rp|42))

==Reception==
The cartridge and its individual games were reviewed twice in ''[[Video (magazine)|Video]]'' magazine. In the Winter 1979 issue of ''Video'', the cartridge was reviewed as part of a general review of the [[Atari 2600|Atari VCS]] where it received a review score of 8.5 out of 10, and its constituent games were characterized as "old standbys" but "still lots of fun".<ref name=kaplan>((cite journal |date= Winter 1979 |editor-last=Kaplan | editor-first=Deeny |title= VideoTest Report Number 18: Atari Video Computer |journal= [[Video (magazine)|Video]]|publisher= Reese Communications|volume= 1|issue= 5|pages= 30–34|issn= 0147-8907))</ref>((rp|33)) A more thorough review appeared in ''Video'''s "Arcade Alley" column in the Summer 1979 issue where the release was generally praised for "tak[ing] Atari's ''Pong'' concept and explor[ing] it to the limit." Individual games were singled out as well, with praise for Volleyball and Robot Pong (described as "astonishingly good"), and criticism for Handball (for its use of a visually disturbing ''blinking'' paddle rather than an ''absent'' paddle to indicate inactive players), and Basketball (described as primitive compared to Atari's own [[Basketball (1978 video game)|1978 version of ''Basketball'']]).<ref name=kunkel>((cite journal |last1= Kunkel |first1= Bill |author-link1= Bill Kunkel (gaming)|last2= Laney |first2= Frank T. II|author-link2= Arnie Katz|date= Summer 1979 |title= Arcade Alley: Atari Video Computer System |journal= [[Video (magazine)|Video]]|publisher= Reese Communications|volume= 2|issue= 3|pages= 42, 43, and 66 |issn= 0147-8907))</ref>((rp|42))

==See also==
((Portal|Video games|1970s))
*[[List of Atari 2600 games]]

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
*[http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-video-olympics_7251.html ''Video Olympics''] at Atari Mania

((Atari 2600))
((Pong series))

[[Category:1977 video games]]
[[Category:Atari 2600 games]]
[[Category:Atari games]]
[[Category:North America-exclusive video games]]
[[Category:Pong variations]]
[[Category:Multiple-sport video games]]
[[Category:Video games developed in the United States]]
[[Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games]]
[[Category:Sears video games]]

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