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- Track and field -
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Track and field is a game
in a long line of games based on the olympics. The thing that kept with
me the most was that the characters had really big noses like super mario.
Anyway you play a set number of events and the winner of the most events
obviously takes all. If you do not qualify for an event though you cannot
proceed to the next event which can sometimes lead to frustration as you
have to do all the first few events again.
There are a total of six events:
- 100 meter dash, run as fast as you can for 100 meters
- long jump, jump as far as you can into a sandbox
- javelin throw, throw a javelin (spear) as far as you can
- 110 meter hurdles, run as fast as you can while jumping over hurdles
- hammer, throw a hammer as far as you can
- high jump, make a running high jump as high as you can
You can see from the evenlist that these are pretty much the most obvious
events, most of which are the same as other games in the genre. It was however
one of the first games to do so because the original arcade version was
released in 1983. The format of the events is pretty simple you have to
run as fast as you can and in some events press the button to jump or throw
at a certain angle. The two running events give you only one chance to qualify
in a certain time but the others give you three chances. The only event
that differs is the high jump in which you get three attempts per height
and if you clear that height you can simply go on to the next until you
get three failed attempts.
These olympic games have been around for ages and in the arcades the idea
was to mash the buttons as fast as you can to go faster. This version is
different because you have to move slower at the start while building it
up towards faster speeds which can at times present a bit of a challenge
if your not accustomed to it. The high jump especially can get tricky as
you often press the button far too early so you cannot get over the bar
anymore. If you're into this kind of game track and field is ok but it offers
very little over other games in the genre but that is the fate of early
games.
Overal rating: 7/10
Erde Kaiser
Track and field was released for several different systems here are some notes:
| Atari
2600 |
Released
in 1984.
Like most atari 2600 version it is lacking in graphics and each event
has to be played seperately. |
| C64 |
Released
in 1984. |
| Others |
These
versions are not available.
Atari 8-bit released in 1984.
MSX released in 1984, this is the only version that has a 400m run
instead of a 110m hurdles. |
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Date added |
Apr-25-2008 15:02 |
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Name |
Track and field |
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Developer |
Konami
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Publisher |
Atari
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First released |
1984 |
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Genre |
Sport
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Download |
Atari 2600, filesize: 12 Kb
Commodore 64, filesize: 28 Kb
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Manual |
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Solve / Docs |
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