Hyper Sports

Hyper Sports

Game No.	265
Voting	7.54 points, 24 votes
Developer	David A. Collier
Company	Imagine
Publisher	Konami, Imagine, The Hit Squad (Ocean), Stars, ERBE Software, Mr. Soft, Action City
Musician	Martin Galway
HVSC-File	MUSICIANS/G/Galway_Martin/Hyper_Sports.sid
Release	1985
Platform	C64, Arcade, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Plus/4, MSX
Genre	Sports, Multi-Event
Gamemode	Single player 2 players (in turns) 2 players (simultaneous) Team
Operation
Media
Language
Information	aka Olimpiadas

Description[edit | edit source]

Hyper Sports is a sports game which consists of several disciplines, similar to Summer Games. For each discipline there is a qualification norm. If this is not reached, the game is over. When all 6 disciplines are mastered, the game goes into the next round with tightened norms.

Swimming - 100m Freestyle[edit | edit source]

Swimming 100m.

In swimming you have to show endurance and timing to absolve the 100m as fast as possible.

Controls:

Joystick right/left: swim movements
Fire button: breathe

Tips:

Press the fire button as fast as possible when the word "breathe" appears.
Do the right/left joystick movements as fast as possbile in the rhythm.

Qualification norms:

1:00:00
0:45:00
0:35:00
0:25:00

Skeet Shooting[edit | edit source]

Skeet shooting.

Reflexes and precision are need for skeet shooting. The disks are normally fired from the launching machine to the right, the bonus disks from the one on the left.

Controls:

Joystick right: shoot at right aim
Joystick left: shoot at left aim

Tipps:

After a certain number of hits (without a miss) there are bonus disks.

Qualification norms:

1500 points
3000 points
4500 points
5000 points

Gymnastics[edit | edit source]

Gymnastics at the vaulting horse.

For gymnastics at the vaulting horse you need again elegance and timing to get many points from the jury.

Controls:

Fire button: jump
then again fire button: with the second press the hand stand position is set
then joystick right/left: to make turns

Tips:

Jump as late as possible, by this the handstand is done on the backmost part of the horse.
For a clean landing the feet have to face down.

Qualification norms:

8,80 points
9,20 points
9,60 points
9,80 points

Archery[edit | edit source]

Archery.

At archery you have to hit as close to the center of the target as possible with the arrow.

Controls:

Fire button: choose wind speed and shoot
Joystick: ?????????

Tips:

Try to get the arrow into the center.

Qualification norms:

1500 points
2000 points
4000 points
4500 points

Triple Jump[edit | edit source]

Triple jump.

At triple jump you need to do 3 jumps one after the other each as long as possible. This is not quite that simple, as exact timing is required. The jump is invalid if the take-off board was crossed.

Controls:

Press fire button: initiate each of the three jumps
Let go fire button: decide jumping angle and jump

Tips:

Hit the board as exactly (late) as possible to not waste any distance.
The angle should be exactly 45°.

Qualification norm:

12,80m
13,20m
13,60m
13,80m

Weight Lifting[edit | edit source]

Weight lifting.

In weight lifting you compete in snatch. The try is successful when you have made it to lift the weight over your head and all three lamps light in white.

Controls:

Fire button: change dumbells
Joystick left/right: lift weight

Tips:

....

Qualification norms:

150kg
190kg
210kg
240kg

Design[edit | edit source]

"Hyper Sports" is a successful conversion of the arcade machine with the same name without the discipline pole vault. Unfortunately, the multiplayer-mode was also removed. The graphics, the (partially funny) animations and the scrolling were realised correspondingly. A great title tune and sound effects during the single disciplines top off the game.

Hints[edit | edit source]

The game can also be played with 2 joysticks (2 players). However, only one pawn can be played simultaneously.

The player's name abbreviation for the highscore list is entered at the start of the game by choosing the letters with joystick left/right, confirming with fire button and finalized by "End".

The version by "Lurid & Tricycle" contains the manual and has in contrast to the original a saveable highscore list.

Solution[edit | edit source]

Tips for each discipline can be found at the description for the corresponding discipline.

Cheats[edit | edit source]

Cheats or pokes are currently none known.

Voting[edit | edit source]

Voting of the C64-Wiki users (10=the best vote):
7.54 points at 24 votes (rank 240). You need to be logged in to cast a vote.
C64Games	7	26th August 2007 - "very good" - 3055 downs
Lemon64	8,2	04th January 2011 - 82 votes
Rombach	8	1986 - "Vote 2"
Kultboy.com	6,33	26th June 2011 - 3 votes
ZZap64	90%	Issue 85/09

Reviews[edit | edit source]

Werner: "I like the Epyx Games series better, however, 8 points from me.".

H.T.W: "Actually a good conversion, the controls for the disciplines, the graphics and also the single gimmicks correspond mainly to the arcade original, but due to the missing multiplayer-mode, the proper competitive mood does not arise."

Robotron2084: "An excellent conversion of the machine, graphically and sound-technically a a crowing achievement for that time. Martin Galway's title tune for the game is just adorable ("Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis). Concerning the gameplay you should of course not expect complex control techniques as in the Epyx games, but wild shaking of the joystick instead of "button-mashings" at the arcade machine are a daily occurrence. But it is completely incomprehensible why only a solo athlete can compete. However: Hyper Sports is my number 1 among the joystick shaking games! 7 out of 10 points."