Play Hyper Sports online

On UsuArcade, Hyper Sports goes head-to-head online against a friend: you compete event by event in the same game, each on your own phone or PC, in real time. If Track & Field wrecked your fingers, Hyper Sports came back to finish the job. Konami turned the arcade into a stadium again with seven brand-new events and the same winning formula: pound the run buttons as fast as humanly possible, then hit the action button at exactly the right moment.

This was the cabinet that always drew a crowd. The player was sweating, everybody behind them was counting out loud, and when somebody broke the in-game world record, the whole place heard about it.

History

Konami released Hyper Sports in 1984, the year Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics, as a direct sequel to Track & Field. In Japan it went by Hyper Olympic '84.

Instead of rerunning the track events, it brought a fresh lineup: swimming, skeet shooting, vault, archery, triple jump, weightlifting, and pole vault. Each one called for its own mix of raw speed and precise timing.

How to play

You alternate between two run buttons as fast as you can, then use a third button to jump, shoot, or release at the perfect moment. In swimming you have to time your breaths; in skeet you fire when the clay crosses your sights; in weightlifting you mash and then lock it in right on cue.

You have to beat the qualifying mark to move on to the next event. Miss it and it's game over, so being fast isn't enough. You need nerves too.

Fun facts

• It launched in the Olympic year of 1984.
• In Japan it was called Hyper Olympic '84.
• It's the direct sequel to Konami's Track & Field.

In the arcade

Just like the arcade, only from your own couch: sit down at the Hyper Sports cabinet, invite your friend once they're in the lobby and compete event by event. Send the invite before the game starts. Nothing to install: it runs in your browser on phone or PC, gamepad supported, and every game starts with INSERT COIN, free.

Anyone else in the lobby can drop in as a spectator and watch live while chatting, and your scores go up on the arcade's high score board. Still itching for more? Its predecessor Track & Field is on the floor too.

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