It sparked a comeback in arcade sports games and served as the inspiration for Pac-Land, a side-scrolling platformer by Namco (1984). Hyper Sports and other Olympic video games from various businesses were released as sequels.
As of 2016, Konami and Centuri’s 1984 Track & Field video game competition held with more than a million participants worldwide still holds the record for the biggest organised video game competition ever.
The game was one of the top arcade games of 1984 and enjoyed widespread commercial success. It boasts a horizontal side-scrolling layout that shows one or two tracks at once, a big scoreboard that shows current runs and world records, and a bustling crowd in the backdrop. In a variety of competitions, players must alternatively push two buttons as quickly as they can to make the on-screen character move quicker.
