Track & Field (NES)

Track & Field
Also known as: Hyper Olympic (JP), Track & Field in Barcelona (EU) Developer: Konami Publishers: Konami, Kemco (EU) Platform: NES Released in JP: June 21, 1985 Released in US: April 1987 Released in EU: February 20, 1992 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has regional differences.

Track & Field is an NES game by Konami known for its odd Easter eggs.

(Chariots of Fire theme plays)

Build Dates

At the beginning of the PRG ROM is an ID string that lists the game version and date.

Japan	USA	Genteiban! (Japan)
RC800 1,0 850325	RC800 X,0 850919	RD001 1,0 861220

In the European version, this is found at the end of the PRG ROM.

MSTR911014

Regional Differences

The international versions of Track & Field take the original Hyper Olympic and add all of the events from Hyper Sports, with the added events comprising the latter half of the game. The controls were also changed to use a standard NES controller instead of the Hyper Shot peripheral, the latter of which were likely included with the Famicom version because the standard controllers are hard-wired into the console.

Title Screen

Japan	USA	Europe

As Konami didn't publish the original Track & Field in Europe, Kemco thought they'd release it even though Track & Field II had already been released several years earlier. So what they did was simply make a title screen change and release it in time with the 1992 Barcelona Games. So thoughtful.