Track & Field

aka: Arcade Archives: Track & Field, Hyper Olympic 1, Hyper Olympic: Gentai Ban!, Track & Field 1, Track & Field in Barcelona, Track and Field
Moby ID: 19505
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Track & Field is a sports game that allows the player to have an experience based around the Summer Olympic Games. Events include the 100 meter dash, the hammer throw, the javelin throw, the long jump, the high jump and the 110 meter hurdles.

The MSX version replaces the hurdles with a 400 meter dash.

The Famicom version loses the hammer throw and the high jump, but the NES version restores the high jump while adding skeet shooting, the triple jump and archery as events. The NES version also keeps the 110 meter hurdles and forgoes the 400 meter dash.

If the player wants to go to the next event or round then they will have to qualify, by beating increasingly difficult maximum times or minimum distances. This game contains a two player option, in which the players take it in turns.

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  • アーケードアーカイブス TRACK & FIELD - Japanese Nintendo Switch / PS4 spelling
  • ハイパーオリンピックI - Japanese spelling (for Hyper Olympic edition)

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1001 Video Games

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

Atari 2600 Track & Field controller

The Atari 2600 version came packaged with the Track & Field controller. The controller was also sold separately.

NES version

The NES version combines the four events ported for the Famicom version of Track & Field with the four events shown in its follow-up Hyper Sports, which included the high jump that was lost in the Famicom version.

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Game added by koffiepad.

Xbox 360 added by Jukka Korkiamäki. Commodore 64 added by iShrek. Atari 8-bit added by Shoddyan. PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch added by Kam1Kaz3NL77. Arcade added by FatherJack. NES added by Alaka. Apple II added by Servo. Atari 2600 added by LepricahnsGold. ZX Spectrum added by Neville.

Additional contributors: formercontrib, LepricahnsGold, Big John WV, ryanbus84, Rik Hideto, FatherJack, robMSX.

Game added October 14, 2005. Last modified January 22, 2024.