Hyper Sports (swim)
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Controls
left-right / Space = breath
History
HYper Sports is a video game published in 1984. It is the sequel to Konami's Track & Field and features seven all-new Olympic events. Like its predecessor, Hyper Sports featured two run buttons and one action button per player. Like its predecessor, the Japanese release of the game sported an official license for the 1984 Summer Olympics. While not quite achieving the commercial and critical success of Track and Field, Hyper Sports still proved to be very popular among gamers.
Gameplay The gameplay was much the same as Track & Field in that the player competes in an event and tries to score the most points based on performance criteria, and also by beating the computer entrants in that event. Also, the player tries to exceed a qualification time, distance or score in order to advance to the next event. In Hyper Sports, if all of the events were passed successfully, the player advances to the next round of the same events which are faster and harder to qualify for. The events changed to include these new sports:
Two events from the game - skeet shooting and vault - featured on the BBC television programme "First Class". The game went on to become the biggest selling Spectrum game of the month in the Gallup charts.[1] The Spectrum version was also voted number 59 in the Your Sinclair Official Top 100 Games of All Time |
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