Track & Field leaps into Live Arcade

Posted Aug 6th 2007 12:35PM by David Dreger
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade

We just got the release informing us that this week's Xbox Live Arcade title will be the 1983 classic, Track & Field. As a retro title, it will run you (Nyuk!) 400 Microsoft Points, and will feature all the XBLA standards, like Achievements Leaderboards, and also has 4 player local and online multiplayer over Xbox Live, which is a nice touch. The main menu, pictured above, looks pretty snazzy, with a familiar red, white and blue motif. While it's not a twofer, it's still a nice retro title for the week.

Tags: konami, trackandfield, xbla

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

8-06-2007 @ 12:51PM

TORO said...

Nice, button mashing fun! I won't be buying this game, I'll break my controller.

8-06-2007 @ 12:59PM

Steve said...

Loved this game back in thy day. Already destroyed a couple of keyboards using with Mame so I don't think I'll be risking the 360 controllers on this one. And where the hell is Tron?

8-06-2007 @ 1:06PM

Joshua said...

I just got a little tingle in my 'down theres'. I can't wait!

8-06-2007 @ 1:44PM

Tony said...

Honestly, I do kind of dislike how every Konami title has a similar menu with the same sound effects... I like Namco's approach to that a lot better... although then again, Namco doesn't enhance the games in any way beyond that.

8-06-2007 @ 2:42PM

Gemini Ace said...

Get ready for a rash of broken controller news in the coming weeks.

8-06-2007 @ 2:52PM

ANt said...

One of my all time favorites, y-y-y-y-y-es!

8-06-2007 @ 3:35PM

Greg said...

It's not going to be button mashing, it'll be more like joystick wagging.

8-06-2007 @ 4:22PM

Clinton said...

Great, more XBLA crapola

8-06-2007 @ 5:16PM

Brevis Furor said...

@ TORO & Gemini - I think you can actually "waggle" the left joystick back and forth to run.

And did anyone over 30 used to play this game in the arcades back in the day and use a comb between their fingers to act as a lever to tap both keys faster?

8-06-2007 @ 6:21PM

Boff said...

Great news! Built a MAME cabinet a few years ago and played this to death on it!

I loved this as a kid in the arcade, just need Hyper Sports now! I was the daddy at skeet shooting ;o)

8-06-2007 @ 8:29PM

khan800 said...

@Brevis - oh yeah, the old comb trick, used that a lot, we ended up graduating to electric toothbrushes to get 3 meter high jumps! :)

I'll be buying this one for sure, controllers be damned!

8-06-2007 @ 9:41PM

homer34 said...

Nyuk!
hahahahaha!

8-06-2007 @ 11:03PM

hargosh37 said...

I have an expendable 360 controller (has a messed up LB button that I had to disassemble.) I'll just use that for this game.

8-07-2007 @ 5:14PM

Brian Ebert said...

Man I love this game. I used to spend hours at the arcade (I'm pretty old...) playing this and having so much fun trying to break the world records. Even though I have bought a lot of the XBLA games, this is the first I am really, really excited about.

8-13-2007 @ 10:12AM

garin said...

wow what a game !! bring on hyper sports takes me right back to my youth hours in the arcades bashing the crap out of buttons

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