Atari A to Z: Track & Field

“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!

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3 thoughts on “Atari A to Z: Track & Field”

  1. 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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