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Hyper Sports

1985 · Family Computer · Sport

About this game

Hyper Sports is the Famicom port of the arcade original. This port notably uses the international title as Konami's Olympic video game licensee was up a year after the Olympic Games Los Angeles 1984 happened.

Six tough events await in this joystick-waggling action game. The full sequence of events is - swimming, skeet shooting, gymnastics, archery, triple jumping and weightlifting. You must complete each event in order to be allowed onto the next one. Swimming involves moving left and right as fast as possible, while pressing fire when a breath is required. Skeet shooting and archery both come down to timing - though elevation and wind factors affect the latter. Gymnastics involves timing a succession of presses to ensure that the jump is long and the landing graceful. The triple jump involves one press for each part of the jump, whereas the weightlifting involves merely brute strength.