Hyper Sports (Amstrad CPC)

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Description

Six tough events await in this joystick-waggling successor to Track &Field.

The full sequence of events is - swimming, skeet shooting, gymnastics, archery, triple jumping and weightlifting. You must complete each event in order to be allowed onto the next one.

Swimming involves moving left and right as fast as possible, while pressing fire when a breath is required. Skeet shooting and archery both come down to timing - though elevation and wind factors affect the latter. Gymnastics involves timing a succession of presses to ensure that the jump is long and the landing graceful. The triple jump involves one press for each part of the jump, whereas the weightlifting involves merely brute strength.

If the player wants to go to the next event or round, they will have to qualify by beating increasingly difficult maximum times or minimum targets.

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Alternate Titles

• "Hyper Sports 1" -- MSX in-game title
• "Hyper Olympic '84" -- Japanese Arcade, Sharp X1 and PC-8001 title
• "ハイパースポーツ１" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Hyper Sports legacy
• Theme: Olympics

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Critic Reviews

Amstrad Action	Jan, 1986	88 out of 100	88
Amtix!	Mar, 1986	30 out of 100	30

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Sharp X1 split volumes?	2	Rwolf (17947) Nov 06, 2014

Trivia

1001 Video Games

The Arcade version of Hyper Sports appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Combination with Track & Field

This game was later combined with the four events shown in the Famicom version of Track & Field to form the Western release of Track & Field.

Awards

• Commodore Format
  • November 1994 (Issue 50) – #23 The All-Time Top 50 C64 Games