Track and Field Geneology

While Track and Field is about the only one people remember, Konami has actually released several sequels over the years.

1983 - Track and Field - Compete for the best times and distances in six summer sports events. Track and Field's Japanese name is Hyper Olympic.

1984 - Hyper Sports - Also known as Hyper Olympic '84, Hyper Sports offers seven new sporting events for arcade players to try, including swimming, skeet shooting and archery.

1988 - Konami '88 - Released in Japan as Hyper Sports Special, this game combines events from the original Track and Field and Hyper Sports and gives them updated graphics and sound. A new event, the 400 Meter Relay, also adds to the festivities.

1988 - Track and Field II - Konami mixed things up a little when they ported Track and Field and Hyper Sports to the Nintendo Famicom. The first game included only four of the original six events. The second game also included just four events, three from arcade Hyper Sports and one from Track and Field. Konami then combined those eight events into a single game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, called Track and Field. This gave American players the illusion they were getting bonus events not seen in the arcade, but in reality some things were still missing, including the original Hammer Throw. Those wrongs were somewhat righted with the Nintendo exclusive Track and Field II. The Hammer Throw made it this time, along with Swimming and the Pole Vault, though a couple of other Hyper Sports events remain missing. Taking their place are a slew of new events and a few repeats, for a total of 15 different events.

1996 - International Track and Field - The games go 3D in this arcade release, later ported to the Sony PlayStation. Of course no game in this series is complete without an alternate name, and this one is also known as Hyper Athlete.

1998 - Nagano Winter Olympics '98 - This time Konami made it official, licensing this game to tie in with the Nagano Winter Games. Since these are winter events, not summer, Nagano arguably doesn't belong in the "Track and Field" series. However, with its other name, Hyper Olympics in Nagano, it's close enough.

1999 - International Track and Field 2000 - One alternate name wasn't enough for this variation on the familiar summer sports theme. The Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation versions are also known as both International Track and Field: Summer Games and Ganbare Nippon! Olympics 2000, while the Sega Dreamcast, Sony PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Game Boy Color ports were renamed ESPN International Track and Field.

2008 - New International Track and Field - The "Track and Field" series' Nintendo DS offering allows players to compete over wi-fi, and compare their results with other players from all over the world. And of course it also had another name in Japan, New International Hyper Sports DS.