Hyper Athlete

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Hyper Athlete (also known as International Track & Field in some parts of the world) is an update of Konami's Track & Field series, in which up to four players compete in eleven different Olympic events. All six events from the first game, 1983's "Track and Field", are included; but tellingly, only three events (swimming, pole vault and triple jump) are taken from the less accomplished sequel, Hyper Sports. Hyper Athlete uses the three-button control system of its predecessors (two RUN buttons and one ACTION button per player) and the eleven disciplines can be attempted in any order. The available events are :

• 100M DASH
• LONG JUMP
• FREESTYLE SWIMMING
• 110M HURDLES
• HAMMER THROW
• DISCUS
• SHOT PUT
• JAVELIN
• SWIMMING
• TRIPLE JUMP
• POLE VAULT

[edit] Games in the series

• 1. Track & Field (1983)
• 2. Hyper Sports (1984)
• 3. Konami '88 (1988)
• 4. Track & Field II (1988)
• 5. International Track & Field (1996)
• 6. Hyper Athlete (1996)
• 7. Nagano Winter Olympics '98 (1998)
• 8. International Track & Field 2000 (2000)
• 9. ESPN International Track & Field (2000)