Track & Field leaps into Live Arcade

by David Dreger { Aug 6th 2007 at 12:35PM }

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

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

TORO @ Aug 6th 2007 12:51PM

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

Steve @ Aug 6th 2007 12:59PM

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?

Joshua @ Aug 6th 2007 1:06PM

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

Tony @ Aug 6th 2007 1:44PM

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.

Gemini Ace @ Aug 6th 2007 2:42PM

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

ANt @ Aug 6th 2007 2:52PM

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

Greg @ Aug 6th 2007 3:35PM

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

Clinton @ Aug 6th 2007 4:22PM

Great, more XBLA crapola

Brevis Furor @ Aug 6th 2007 5:16PM

@ 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?

Boff @ Aug 6th 2007 6:21PM

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)

khan800 @ Aug 6th 2007 8:29PM

@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!

homer34 @ Aug 6th 2007 9:41PM

Nyuk!
hahahahaha!

hargosh37 @ Aug 6th 2007 11:03PM

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.

Brian Ebert @ Aug 7th 2007 5:14PM

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.