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Encyclopedia > Track and Field (arcade game)

Track & Field is the name of a series of Olympic themed video games developed by Konami for several platforms since 1982.
The first title, simply called Track & Field (Hyper Olympic outside the United States) was released in 1983 for the then booming arcade market. The simple gameplay, based on quick, repeating, button presses set the basics for the upcoming games in the genre for the next decades. It would also be released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985, and became one of the most popular NES games of its time. The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every two years and alternating between Summer and Winter Games. ... Olympic Gold was the first officially licensed game Olympic videogames is the usual name given to sports video games including more than one event of several sports. ... Computer and video games A screenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game Boy A console game (better known as a video game) is a form of interactive multimedia used for entertainment, which consists of a moveable image displayed on a screen that is usually controlled and manipulated using a handheld... Konami Corporation (コナミ) (TYO: 9766) (NYSE: KNM) (SGX: K20) is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling computer and video games. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... Button mashing is the term given to repeated button presses over a short period. ... The Nintendo Entertainment System (North America, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and Australia) The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is an 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and Australia. ... This article is about the year. ...


Konami continued releasing games on the series for the arcade, most notably Hyper Olympic '84, '88 Games, Hyper Sports Special and finally Hyper Athlete in 1996. Home versions also continued to appear, Track & Field II (1988) and Track & Field in Barcelona (1992) would also be released for the NES. Although there wasn't any title released for 16-bit consoles, in 1996 International Track And Field, based on the Hyper Athlete arcade was released for the PlayStation. 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション) is a video game console of the 32-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid 1990s. ...


These series are the longest existing sports videogame series in existence, but titles aren't released on a regular time frame. The next game, International Track & Field 2000 was released for the PlayStation in 1999 and in 2000 for the Nintendo 64. The game would also have a Dreamcast and PS2 version endorsed by sports channel ESPN called ESPN International Track & Field, both released in 2000. Although it seems logic that the games are released in years with Olympic, there wasn't a title released to take advantage of the 2004 Summer Olympics. 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Nintendo 64, commonly called the N64, is Nintendos third home video game console. ... Sega Dreamcast The Sega Dreamcast (Japanese: ドリームキャスト; code-named Katana during development) was Segas last video game console. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ... ESPN, formerly an abbreviation of Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The 2004 Summer Olympics are officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (the 28th Summer Olympic Games). ...


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Track & Field (arcade game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (614 words)
Track and Field is the name of a series of Olympic themed video games developed by Konami for several platforms since 1982.
The first title, simply called Track and Field (Hyper Olympic outside the United States) was released in 1983 as an arcade game.
Track and Field helped to popularize the button-mashing style of gameplay, in which a player must hit a button on their controller as fast and as many times as possible in order to make their in-game athlete move quicker.
Gamasutra - Features - "Track and Field Game Mechanics" [10.18.02] (1228 words)
Track and field games, however, have not undergone the same path of evolution.
While racing games are often developed by people with a strong interest in motor sports and cars, I strongly doubt that the developers of track and field games have had either a strong interest in the sport of track and field or the biomechanics and technical execution of the events.
As the game should be sprite based, none of the 3D track and field games inspired me and, in addition their animation was not really realistic.
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