Hyper Sports (Arcade)

Hyper Sports
Also known as: Hyper Olympic '84 (JP) Developer: Konami Publishers: Konami, Centuri (US) Platform: Arcade (Konami Hyper Sports hardware) Released internationally: July 1984 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences.

In Hyper Sports, Konami alternates the button-mashing goodness of Track & Field with more intricate, timing-based events, thereby saving the world's arcade owners thousands of dollars in repairs.

Unused Graphics

	Score values that were meant for the Skeet Shooting event. The used small bonuses are 100 and 500.
	The big bonus scores are 1000 and 3000. These intermediate bonuses aren't needed or used.
	Two exclamations that would be used when the player fouls up an event. The katakana is "Gyaaa", an exclamation of distress.

Early	Final

A slightly different "GO" balloon is stored in the object graphics ROM, horizontally flipped.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Text

At 0xCFC0 is a line of text that could easily be mistaken for a word salad:

QUALIFY IS BACK UP RAM

The line "QUALIFY IS DIP SWITCH" is displayed after the game boots up. This refers to the four(!) dip switches that are used to control the game's difficulty and qualifying scores. At one point, Konami planned to have an option to have the difficulty stored in NVRAM, saving cabinet owners the trouble of having to fiddle with four different switches, but this functionality seems to have been dropped from all versions of the game.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Regional Differences

Unlike the prequel, only two distinct versions exist: The Japanese Hyper Olympic '84 and the USA version distributed by Centuri. Like Track & Field, the USA version lack any Olympic-related elements since that version wasn't licensed or endorsed by the IOC and the LAOC outside of Japan which was possibly the main reason why Konami changed it into Hyper Sports.

Japan	US

While the Japanese version recreates the same style of the prequel for the game title, the US version went to the effort to create a completely new style for the game title. In order to fit the Centuri logo, the two electronic billboards were merged into a single, but larger one.