Aussie Games was made in response to the success of Epyx’s Californian Games (1987) and the popularity of the movie Crocodile Dundee (1986) in the United States.
A compendium of different games, it includes a boomerang throw, a bellywack competition, an Aussie Rules football punting game, a dry boat race and the infamous skeet shoot. In the skeet shoot game, you have to hit an empty beer can thrown from a moving ute. Success results in the dog, who is riding shotgun in the ute, chundering! “Aussie Games” offered a very tongue in cheek survey of Australian sporting prowess. The games were developed individually by differing Beam staff with Gregg Barnett as the producer. Russel Comte’s graphics for Aussie Games are most humerous.
Source: Play It Again website: http://www.ourdigitalheritage.org/archive/playitagain/games/aussie-games/
Last accessed: 14/04/2021
Original game developed by Mindscape Inc for Commodore 64, published in 1989 by Beam Software
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