This minigame's a little too fiddly to be fun, and the jumps feel too difficult to estimate correctly. On the 6th jump though, I managed to miss and the game abruptly disqualified me. In the Horse Riding, which had been a complete disaster in practice, I was able to jump the fences pretty easily for a few jumps despite the awful frame rate and Outrun style turns on the course. Finishing with 99 points, I got a gold medal which made this an early favourite event overall. I had a little practice on some of the events beforehand, but there's no telling what'll happen once the AI is introduced to the mix.Īrchery was my favourite event in practice, and I quickly found my feet using the d-pad to aim and the B button to shoot an arrow when the reticle was over a good area. Since there's a lot of events, I'll be running through this one as I play through a single tournament.

With such an odd combination of events, you'd think that the control scheme would be complex and hard to remember, but the game literally uses the d-pad and the B button only. Summer Challenge is an olympic style video game that allows players to compete in up to 8 events Archery, Horse Riding, Kayaking, Hurdles, Pole Vault, High Jump, Javelin and Cycling. The racing is presented in a 3D view from behind the player's car (essentially the same as the NES classic Days Of Thunder), which is preferable to a top down point of view, but severely limits visibility into the distance. While there's a good selection of drivers and teams available in the game (presumably the same as the real life NASCAR lineup of the time), it's almost impossible to tell the cars apart save for a few specks of colour in the game, so players needn't bother spending too long considering who they'll choose. Firstly, even the title screen looks as if it's been put through several compression cycles and tinted an odd shade of green, and the menus all feature tiny text and options. Obviously being on the Game Boy Colour wasn't a good start for this game, as the other versions were on PS1, N64 and PC, but several other factors hampered any sense of fun that could have been gained. I'm no NASCAR expert, but I've seen my fair share of NASCAR games here and there.

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