Hyper Olympic (NES)

Hyper Olympic
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Platform: NES Released in JP: June 21, 1985 (original), November 16, 1985 (Genteiban!) This game has hidden development-related text. This game has revisional differences.

Hyper Olympic for the Famicom is a port of the arcade game of the same name (known outside of Japan as Track & Field) which features 4 different athletic games. The game notably requires use of the HyperShot controller in order to play (not to be confused with the light gun by Bandai also named Hyper Shot). A sequel would release a few months later under the name Hyper Sports, and the two games would later be combined for international release as Track & Field.

Build Dates

At the beginning of the PRG ROM is an ID string that lists the game version and date.

Hyper Olympic	Genteiban!
RC800 1,0 850325	RD001 1,0 861220

Revisional Differences

To do: Document the changes made in the Genteiban release, which has a different sprite for the player character.

A limited edition version of Hyper Olympic was released called Hyper Olympic Genteiban! which changes the playable character to Ken Shimura's character, Baka Tono-sama.

Title Screen

Original	Genteiban!

The player character was changed to Baka Tono-sama in the Genteiban! version.

Level Select

Genteiban! adds a menu to select any of the four events when starting a new game, which is not present in the original Hyper Olympic.