Arcade Game: Track & Field (1983 Konami)
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- A sports/track and field game where you compete against each other in 6 track and field events. Only 2 players could compete simultaneously so on 3 and 4-player games, players had to wait their turn. An extra life is awarded for every 100,000 points acquired. Each player must qualify in the current event before they can move on to the next. Hit the 2 run buttons to build up speed and use action button to jump or throw. The events are :
100M DASH - Run as fast as possible.
LONG JUMP - Run to the take-off board then choose angle of jump (42 is optimal).
JAVELIN - Run to the line then choose angle of throw (42 is optimal).
110M HURDLES - Run and time jumps over the hurdles.
HAMMER THROW - As the athlete spins faster and faster, time release of hammer and angle of throw (45 is optimal).
HIGH JUMP - The athlete will run to the bar, just as he reaches it, use Action button to start the jump and hold down the action button to reduce the angle of climb, i.e. you start going straight up at 90 degrees if you tap the button just once. Use run buttons while in the air to gain extra height.
Note: Used the fast cheat on the 110 meter hurdle and the high jump level.
![[TAS] NES Track & Field "max score, playaround" by Phil in 12:55.43](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/eTjkr0nigrs/mqdefault.jpg)
![[TAS] NES Track & Field "max score, playaround" by Phil in 12:55.43](/img/tr.png)
![[TAS] International Track & Field "World Records"](/img/n.gif)
One of my all time favourites. Ah. The old days.
I loved this game. When your foot landed on the white chalk mark of the long jump you'd get into the 9's and it was invigorating.
I loved getting the bonus points when you killed the bird in the javelin throw
In some version, it was a UFO ...
The original arcade version was a UFO, whereas some home videogame consoles used a bird ...
The mindless, button mashing majesty of this genius work of art will always have a place in my heart
We used to deliberately buy juice from the local takeaway, just to keep the empty bottles to play this game easier ...
Used to play this in some snackbar near my family's camping site, using a lighter for button mashing. Seems like a lifetime ago... Good times.
I used to see guys do that same trick with a comb.
@@wardyman70yup! Put the comb between your index and middle finger and hammer it for max speed. 😂
We used empty juice bottles, instead ... so much easier to hold than a comb, or a lighter ...
No nonsense button smashing. Fasted wins. It was a proper test of endurance. Great stuff.
I used to play this in the arcade at the top of Pier Hill in Southend. I could never get the hang of the high jump.
The arcade’s long gone now, but the voice reading out the distances immediately took me back there. Oh to be a teenager again….
The voice reading the distances was ground breaking technology back in the day.
this game helped me become a good lover
Between this game and the Star Wars arcade game, it's like living my teen years all over again.
One of many couldn’t wait to play when the fair was coming to town. Funny how cutting-edge the speaking was at the time.
Where the class action for a generation of people who got RSI injuries play this! GOD I LOVED THIS GAME. Every time I hear the sound effects I can smell the sweaty chips in the arcade.
Thanks for the flashbacks to my teenage arcade years! I remember having to pound on those buttons as fast as I could when playing the 100 Meter Dash.
You can get those memories back, it's easy to get and play on laptop, phone, android box etc
Me too! Lol
Throwing the javelin too high and hitting a bird always tickled me.😂
And the music is infectious.🤗
Leaping 30ft up in the air on high jump is ultra cool! This game and that voice brings all kinds of memories storming back from my youth.
I remember the arcade, but it does have voice acting in the original arcade version. The NES version that I have does not have any voices until "Track & Field 2" came along. The arcade version was from 1983, the NES version was from 1987. The arcade version has 5 events, the NES version has 8, but they added 3 new events like Skeet Shooting, Triple Jump and Archery. All three of them are from another arcade game "Hyper Sports" and eliminated the Hammer Throw, Weight Lifting and Pole Vault. This was probably an early Konami sports game.
@@Musicradio77Network The Skeet Shooting, Triple Jump and Archery (along with Swimming, Pommel Horse & Pole Vault) are from Konami's Hyper Sports.
Track & Field's sequel.
I remember this game back in the day i remember someone using a pencil on one fingers to help push the other buttons it work he was pretty good
i remember the ice cream stick when playing this game back then love it when you tap real fast so cool .......
After the pencil cheat got popular, they came up the the side covers for the buttons on the arcade machines. So we evolved and went to plastic combs with all the teeth cut out. All you had were the two large ends slapping the buttons and setting those 90m world records.
In all the years I played that game I never saw anyone use a pencil comb or popsicle stick. I used to do very well because I was a drummer so I just did my single stroke rolls...
Using a Bic lighter was the best tool
We used empty juice bottles over the buttons instead. Much easier to hold than an icecream stick, or a lighter ...
He beat the 100m record whilst running 110. ... . OVER HURDLES !!!
I remember this game was all the rage during the 1984 Olympic Games in LA.
I used to play this game all day on Saturdays on a single quarter while my Dad went golfing. The trick to go fast was to use the index, middle, and ring fingers in each hand. No one could beat me ;). The memories here...
Yeah, I remember when you bastards started showing up in the arcades, complete eclipsing everyone else's running speeds. Obviously I never figured it out :D
You'd have been hard-pressed to beat my crowd. We knew the trick too.
You got even faster speeds by using an empty juice bottle, instead ...
Awesome game! I've got just about every game on the entire Old Classic Retro Gaming playlist loaded onto my Super Retro-cade, including Konami's Track & Field. The only ones it won't play are the games that used vector graphics. Don't know why, it just won't play any vector games. It was your channel that inspired me to get onboard the retro gaming bandwagon so thanks for all the great classic arcade game videos.
At the End of the Game, You Hear the Theme from "Chariots of Fire".
I first heard the song and then got reminded of this game! :)
I would tell the teacher I had to go to the bathroom, run right across the street to
7-11 to play game, and get back to class and hand my teacher the bathroom pass.
It’s the only time I could get a game in… I would get there when the bell rang to let us out, I was 8 deep and couldn’t play because I had to be home by 4pm. The life in Glendale,Ca 1984. (5th grade, John Marshall Elementary) 😎
I'm sure playing this game back in the day caused my arthritic fingers!!
To much wonking
They came out with a version that replaced the run buttons with a roller ball. On the long jump and javelin you could start rolling before the start to build up speed. On the javelin, I would qualify on the first or second attempt, then on the third I would make the javelin go straight up. If you hit a bird, you got bonus points.
@@garyrasberryjr.552 Totally forgot about the bird in javelin. Good man.
The original arcade version was a UFO, whereas some home videogame consoles used a bird ...
Between this, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior, imo, were the best arcade games ever invented
32yrs ago I started playing this for hours every day and the tip of my fingers doing the 100mtrs were sore af but the game was great, good times.
Your fingers wouldn't have gotten sore if you used an empty juice bottle to hit the buttons, instead ...
We used empty juice bottles, instead, so much easier to hold, and much less painful on the fingers ...
Also, wow dude, you're amazing at this. A total expert. Great stuff. Instantly subscribed.
This video game always takes me back to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Should be called The John Holmes Olympics
One of my favorite games on the NES somebody showed me the lighter trick /hack I was blown away!
I remember this game. Lots of people SMASH those buttons so hard and fast.
Robert Lopresti I remember that. Dudes would use all four fingers and "sweep" them over the buttons. It looks crude now, the graphics, but at the time it was state of the art. 😃
@@vincentbarrios4069... we used empty juice bottles, to save our fingers from getting sore ...
Some guy has just ran London Marathon (26.2 miles) in 2hr 2 mins, so I was motivated to get up and exercise, so jumped out of bed and started to play Track n Field on my computer, am striving for a personal best in 100m, real running is too tiring and all the hassle of showering once a week.
This game was the original Carpal Tunnel infection giver
I remember playing this against my uncles. It for really competitive. So many memories.
I need this for the Switch
wasnt there a glitch on the javelin when you could kill a bird when you hit a 85 degree angle
Yes there was! Good memory!
The original arcade version was a UFO, whereas some home videogame consoles used a bird ...
Anyone remember the joy of seeing this machine from a distance and hoping it was the joystick version?
High jump was a two part press. Ist was a very quick tap to get a very steep angle then again to lower the angle and sweep over the bar
You'd know if the arcade had this game from 100 yards away
Just played this at an arcade for the first time in years. I forgot how exhausting it was. The qualifying was a lot harder on the game I played. Couldn't get past the javelin.
We used empty juice bottles, in order to hit the buttons faster, and save our fingers from cramping up ...
I remember when this game was at People's Drug 2 blocks down the street from My Grandparents 🏠 back in DC. I remember the button guards that forced you to use your fingertips...just to mess with you😤. This is roughly 2 years before Nintendo Thumb via NES.
CVS took that location in the 90's, no gaming there😭.
NFL Blitz, Golden Tee, and This one…..The only ones left to get! I’ve ALREADY ended NBA Jam Tournament Edition and Classic Edition all 28 teams. Only one LEVEL. Can play on line too!
7 eleven, I was 10 years old, I had a cherry slurpy, and grape now & laters and big league chew, and a bunch of quarters playing this. I miss it.
I vaguely remembered playing this on my DS.
It always felt weird beating the black dude in sprint events 🥇
I remember playing this at the rec center in the campground my grandparents stayed at during the summer.
I played this so much with friends when were kids, in a pub where we used to buy icecream. And later we had it on the Commodore 64, too.
It's official.
The greatest athlete of all time is a young named... Bod.
Arcade guy (who literally had one of those belt-band-lever-activated manual quarter dispensers would always come over to warn us we shouldn't slam the buttons for the sprint. As he spoke we heard nothing.
I always thought the white guy looked like Mario. He looks like Weird Mario from Mario Maker! The buttons on the arcade machine I saw this played on back in the day was covered in white scuff marks from people using a plastic spoon to rapidly press the buttons alternately.
6:00 Hahahahahahahaha!!! That's a great one!!! You made my day!!
Such a classic game
Arcade machines were retrofitted with cups around the run buttons since people were cheating. Hold a comb in your left hand, your pinky and ring fingers on top, the others beneath. Left side is then held down onto the left run button. If you then hit the right side of the comb to hit the right run button and let go, your left pinky/ring fingers snap it back down on the left button. Two presses for one action.
One of those games they used to crank and you could hear in the parking lot or down the hall in the mall.
Used to use a butter knife on this game to rapidly hit both buttons 😁
We used empty juice bottles, instead ... So much easier to hold than a butter knife ...
Konami also did Track & Field II for the NES which was pretty good too. Alot more varied events as well.
「Track & Field」は海外版のタイトルになるが、日本では「ハイパーオリンピック」(Hyper Olympic)という名称で提供されていました。…日本版は翌年のロサンゼルスオリンピックにちなんだタイトルと思われる。
easy for you to say
Kids these days are missing out on this
Yeah, all they play are those stupid killing games that no one will remember 10 years form now.
6:00 What a Jump!
One of the best games ever.
I would play with a friend of mine we would tag team on each button to get past each level with eight hours of constant play. If not using a butter knife
We used empty juice bottles, instead ... So much easier to hold than a butter knife ...
4:42 Yeah ... Right..
That run is about right. He wasn't even running that fast.
You get your speed up to about 1400cm/sec+ and you take one step from the start line and _HOPE_ you don't hit the last hurdle. You never take another step the whole race and end up with a time well under 8.5 sec.
This is one of those games i hated, but respected for the multiple play aspects and voice quality. But god DAMN do i hate sports games. ::wonders if Konami had the rights to "Chariots of Fire" theme::
was a little mom an pop store on the corner down the street from my sisters house that had this game in it when i was a kid, i played it it was a good game but my sisters husband played this alot. go there to play videos games end up fist fighting the other kids there outside but that was life for a boy in the 80's cool thing was no one called the cops much back in them days :) the controller for this game was a big white ball in the middle of the machine that looked just like a cue ball from a pool table. spin that ball as fast as you could = faster you go!
The key to winning this game is not to tap quickly, but vibrate your finger on the sprint button
The key to winning this game, was to use an empty juice bottle on the buttons, instead ...
use to play this in the Laundrymat way way back...memories
We used to use electric toothbrushes at the arcade,lol. Good times.
An aluminum pushrod yields the best result, but it isn't without pain on your middle finger where you lever the pushrod. I.E. Left hand pinky and ring on top of the rod then the rod goes over the middle finger and the pointer finger goes on top to balance it then you chop on the right of the rod with your right hand. When the right length is used it is on both outside edges of the buttons. You should be able to max out the speed on every event. Pro tip put a band aid on your middle finger it cuts down on the pain at least a little.
In case anyone was wondering the melody of the champion theme...its chariots of fire
Does anybody have any hints on how to actually get past the hammer throw stage.It"s infuriating.I keep hitting the sides and haven't made one yet.
That High Jump! LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 Awesome!
Does anyone else remember that you can get extra points for hitting a UFO in the javelin?
I remember a bird
@@JFROWLA It was a bird. Yes.
The original arcade version was a UFO, whereas some home videogame consoles used a bird ...
Loved this game always got to the high jump then failed :(
I loved this game. I was so bad at it! LOL!
That high jump -- you have to press the button twice with one press a second or two after the first
5:51 is this guy a Jedi?
Was there a game show on TV in the 80s and they played this or did i dream it. Did Jenny Powell present it?
The best version is this one, the first!
0:46 On your Marks Get Set Go: CPU vs CPU
1:52 and 4:25 On your Marks Get Set Go: P1 vs CPU
The joystick cabinet version was much easier than the all button one.
Trackball was much better.
Indeed.
Lost hundreds of quarters on this one. Got my kids hooked on the emulator version decades later...and had to replace more than one keyboard as a result.
Stayed up late playing this one haha
I used to rub my side of my hands across the two buttons. And the next day I had blisters.
We used an empty juice bottle, so much easier and less painful on the hands ...
@@chadcunnington7152 the scars we got to win lol
@@psycoticbastard ... I remember some kids using a large coin, but the juice bottle was so much easier to use ...
@chadcunnington7152 never tried that. I got under 7 secs in the 100 metres I remember
deserved a GIF
So many quarters I pumped into that arcade game in 1983 and 84.
Impressive voices!
It will be released on Nintendo Switch tomorrow.
My mom bought it with her own money because it was her childhood arcade game
@@mrpizza_5139 I just bought this on switch as well because I played this game a lot at the local skating rink back in the day!
@@kevin12567 I got Arcade Archives: Track & Field on Nintendo Switch Lite.
Billy Mitcheled once hitting the hurdles.
I was very very very good at this game
This was my game. I used to get all Parkinsons on one button
6:55 Chariots Of Fire theme ♥️♥️♥️
which is the one that had swimming, and if you didn't come up for breath early enough the guy would make that weird "KEEEYBUT KEEEEEEYBUUTTT KEEEEEEYBUTTT"" sound??
I wrecked a few joysticks playing this
Hola pregunta en el de las olimpiadas como haces para saltar tan alto en salto en alto
A relic from The Age of Nuthuggers.
Double Dribble in cade was the game
LOLOL at 4:35 and 6:00 !!!
Was this using MAME? I don't think I've seen the fast cheat on this. What is the ROM name?
Yes, this was on MAME.
Traknfld.zip
whose voice announces the time and distance?
We would use an Electric tooth brush
2:56 Your distance
6.40 meter
At least, one can do world record on high jump unlike on nes version.
What console this game was released?
Wasnt there a hidden trick where you can throw the javelin straight up and hit and bring down a chandalier? or am i remembering that wrong?
Track & Field in Barcelona on Nes you could do the same but I think it was a spaceship. Good times😁
The original arcade version was a UFO, whereas some home videogame consoles used a bird ...
When I first played this game, it was ultra hard for me to control. When no one is playing the game, it gets really noisy. Especially if you hear the chime signal go off, for the Olympic athlete to perform; in the sport event. 🚶♀️🚶♂️🚶