At the start of the game, you will be asked for 'today's' high tide time to proceed. Check the Tide Table in the instruction manual here: https://store.steampowered.com/manual/1418350 to look up the correct time. These kinds of copy protection measures were par for the course back in the 90s when this game was first released....

i heard each version has different sports so would be nice if we can pick what version we want to try like the atari 7800

I was trying the jetski game, first game of the bunch, after 20 seconds it went back to the menu and then immediately dosbox closes. From what i tried with California Games 1 i did not had any issues there. Surfing too, and riding the chopper to the platform it crashed on me, and it's not just 1080p mode it's original mode too, this game is just buggy, bad copy? There used to be a program called neverlock in the scene back then to remove copy protection from games, however that also broke some gam...

hells yah

So, this game is STILL broken. NO other versions are available, like in the original Cali games. Shame the companies NOT going to bother to fix it though.