World Class Track Meet

2 Comments

1. Dec25

   bordersj2

   Times have changed, but looking at the Wii, Nintendo were always headed in that direction. I remember the commercials when the Power-pad came out and this was the game that was mostly used to advertise the then ‘new’ accessory. They had aerobics games and right here, you even had a running game.

   The game is as advertised – track & field. Going off of memory, but you have a series of events that you can go through in a sort of mini-Olympiad. You have a 100 meter dash, high hurdles, long jump and I think there was even the triple-jump as well. The characters that you run against ranged from a slower guy (aptly named “Turtle”) and the fastest was I think named “Cheetah”. You could also run against your friends on this too.

   This was released back in the mid-late 1980′s, and though you could get the accessory separately there was a Nintendo ’3′ pack that I think had Track & Field, the gun with duckhunt and Super Mario brothers. While the game was ok, getting to a level to be able to beat the fastest runners proved very difficult to do and some events like the triple-jump were tricky to figure out. Still, for nostalgia’s sake, it was a fun game and looking at the exercise aspect, Nintendo was way ahead of the game (no pun intended).

   I do have one spoiler – so look away if you don’t want to know this quasi-cheat… I remember some kids messing around with this and just hitting the pads very quickly with their fists to get the sprinters to run faster.
   Rating: 3 / 5

2. Dec25

   John M. Brown

   Excellent condition got here in good time too, I will definitely buy from these guy again
   Rating: 5 / 5