Today, Friday, July 23, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games officially begin , so Google wanted to celebrate it with a very special Doodle in which we also find a tribute to 16-bit video games .
Google celebrates the start of the Olympic Games. from Tokyo with a Doodle that is a video game
To welcome the Tokyo Olympics, Google has released an interactive Doodle in collaboration with Japanese animation studio Studio 4 ° C. Titled Doodle Champion Island Games , it presents a series of 16-bit Olympic-themed mini-games to users. sure that everyone will want to play.
How is the Doodle Champion Island Games?
To play we have to put ourselves in the shoes of Lucky, a ninja cat who explores Doodle Champion island. There, players can join a blue, red, yellow, or green team, represented by Ushi (cow), Karasu (crow), Inari (fox), or Kappa (Japanese tortoise).
The main task is to defeat the champion in the different Olympic sports specialties that the game includes: table tennis, skate (which opens this year as an Olympic sport), rugby, archery, rock climbing, marathon and artistic swimming.
To play it, all you have to do is click Doodle on the Google search page . An anime clip will instantly play with all the characters inspired by Japanese folklore.
After that, we will start the adventure as Lucky. Controlling the game is very simple. We only use the space bar and the arrow keys to navigate.
How to play the different sports of Doodle Champion Island Games?
Playing this Doodle is the most fun, but if you don’t know very well what each game consists of, we will now explain how to play each one.
- In the table tennis match, the players will play against two opponents. You have to hit the ball at the right time to get more speed, so make sure you keep an eye on when to hit.
- The skate test is displayed like most video games of this type. Performing cartwheels provides additional points, with hurdles and ramps scattered throughout the space to increase height or speed.
- In archery game , you need to aim quickly and accurately to outrun samurai generals and snipers.
- In the game of rugby, all you have to do is dodge the enemies and get lightning to increase your speed.
- In the artistic swimming game , you must be very attentive to the instructions on the screen and press the indicated button to get the figures you must make.
- For the climbing game, you just have to avoid the obstacles of the main enemy, the owls.
- The last game is the marathon in which you have to run as fast as you can but watch out for the crustaceans. You have to avoid them at all times so they don’t stop you.
