Track & Field II

Track & Field II
Track & Field II
	North American cover art
Developer(s)	Konami
Publisher(s)	Konami
Programmer(s)	Masahiro Ueno ; Yoshiaki Yamada
Artist(s)	Kazuhito Ogikubo
Platform(s)	NES
Release	JP: September 16, 1988; NA: March 1989; EU: November 22, 1989;
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Track & Field II, known in Japan as Konami Sports in Seoul, is a sequel to Track & Field created by Konami for the NES in 1988.^{[note 1]} It still continues the Olympic-themed sports events, but adds more realism by choosing a country for the player to represent. The series boasted 15 sporting events, with two of them available as bonus stages between rounds of the "Olympic" mode.

Game modes

Training is a basic training of the events to test out the abilities of the player in each event.
Olympic is the story mode of the game where the player represents his or her country and competes with the world's best.
Versus is where two players compete head-to-head in the sporting events.

Sporting events

Fencing
Triple jump
Freestyle Swimming
High Dive
Clay Pigeon Shooting
Hammer throw
Taekwondo
Pole vault
Canoeing
Archery
Hurdles
Horizontal Bar
Hang Gliding (bonus event)
Arm wrestling in Versus Mode only (in Exhibition against a computer in the Japanese version)
Gun Firing (bonus event; not available in the Japanese version)

The triple jump, freestyle swimming, clay pigeon shooting, pole vault, and archery events were previously featured in Hyper Sports. The hammer throw and hurdles events were originally featured in the original Track and Field. Although gymnastics was featured in Hyper Sports, that game had the vaulting horse rather than the horizontal bar.

Countries

Extras

The game has a password feature allowing the player to continue playing from their last position at another time. In addition, the Gun Firing exhibition event could be played with either the NES Controller or the NES Zapper.

Reception

The game topped the bi-weekly Japanese Famitsu sales chart in October 1988, dethroning Dragon Ball: Daimaō Fukkatsu.^[4]

Notes

^ Although it is the fourth game in the series, it is the second for the NES (and a follow-up to the previous NES game), hence the title.

References

^ "Availability Update" (PDF). Computer Entertainer. Vol. 7, no. 12. March 20, 1989. p. 14.
^ ^a ^b "Track & Field II". GameFAQs. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
^ |http://www.digitpress.com/library/manuals/nes/Track%20&%20Field%20II.pdf
^ "ファミコン通信 TOP 30: 10月28日" [Famicom Tsūshin Top 30: October 28]. Famicom Tsūshin (in Japanese). Vol. 1988, no. 22. 11 November 1988. pp. 6–7.

[4] Although it is the fourth game in the series, it is the second for the NES (and a follow-up to the previous NES game), hence the title.

[1] "Availability Update" (PDF). Computer Entertainer. Vol. 7, no. 12. March 20, 1989. p. 14.

[gfaq-2] "Track & Field II". GameFAQs. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 8 November 2014.

[3] |http://www.digitpress.com/library/manuals/nes/Track%20&%20Field%20II.pdf

[5] "ファミコン通信 TOP 30: 10月28日" [Famicom Tsūshin Top 30: October 28]. Famicom Tsūshin (in Japanese). Vol. 1988, no. 22. 11 November 1988. pp. 6–7.

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