“Multi-discipline athletics” is a subgenre of sports gaming that seems to have mostly fallen by the wayside in recent years.
In the ’80s, however, it was all the rage — and games such as Konami’s Track & Field proved to be the bane of many a joystick throughout the decade.
This Atari 8-bit port of the arcade classic is a surprisingly solid adaptation, wonky scrolling and inadvertent hairpieces aside. If you’ve had a hankering for a wagglin’, well, you can do far worse than this!
The Atari was a bit before my time but this was a lovely watch and listen.
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Glad to hear it! Thank you for being kind enough to watch it 🙂
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It was great revisiting this through your video, thanks! I remember Summer Games and Decathlon accounting for a lot of dead joysticks and this game would have been a contributor too. 🙂
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