© 2009 TEAM PIXELBOY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Challenge the olympic world records!
Athletes from all over the world converge in a single location to proove their worth,
in the greatest sports competition of all time: The olympic games! In Konami's
Track & Field, you can join them and get a nice work-out in the process!
One or two players participate in such time-honored olympic events as the 100-meter
dash, the long jump and the hammer throw. In each event, the player must qualify
against a pre-determined time or distance in order to proceed to the next event. If
not, the competition is over. The points added to your score after each event depend
on your athletic performance. Can you make your home country proud?
The starting point of this project actually dates back to a few years ago, during my
time as executive producer of Opcode Games. My collegue Eduardo had plans to release
a compilation of MSX ports, called Konami Sports Collection, which included
certain games for which Eduardo wanted to include support for the Atari 2600 Track
& Field controller.
At one point, I spotted a seller on eBay who was selling a large number of those
special controllers, and I saw an obvious opportunity right there: Opcode Games could
offer a pack-in controller with Konami Sports Collection! So I bought 35
Track & Field controllers from that eBay seller, without telling Eduardo
because I wanted to surprise him later on.
Events unfolded in an unfortunate way afterwards, and Eduardo scrapped his plans to
release Konami Sports Collection. So I was stuck with 35 custom controllers for
which there isn't much of a demand these days. But if I could include a pack-in game
with each of those controllers, I'm sure they would sell like hot cakes!
So this is why I convinced Eduardo to port the MSX version of Track & Field
to the ColecoVision, to be published under my Team Pixelboy label. I bought 15 more
Track & Field controllers from that very same eBay seller during the summer
of 2009, so that I could have an even 50. So now I'm including one such controller with
the first 50 copies of Track & Field produced.
- Eduardo Mello : Software port and beta-testing
- Luc Miron : Box design, game manual, cart label, software beta-testing
- Dale Crum / Doc4 : Game manual layout (http://doc4design.com)
- Oliver Puschatzki : Box printing services
- Fred Quimby : Cartridge PCB design
- Albert Yarusso / AtariAge : Electronic sourcing and assemblies
SPECIAL THANKS: Dan Hower, and all AtariAge forum members.
Track & Field © 1984 Konami
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