Hyper Athlete
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Description
Up to four players compete throughout eleven different Olympic events. This was a Japan-only release.
Hyper Athlete was produced by Konami in 1996.
Konami released 433 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Konami was based in Japan.
Other machines made by Konami during the time period Hyper Athlete was produced include: Dance Dance Revolution MegaMix, Susume! Taisen Puzzle Dama, Road Rage, Chicken Dash, Ultra Hockey, Run and Gun 2, Salamander 2, Sexy Parodius, Taisen Puzzledama, and Taisen Tokkaedama
Specs
| Name | Hyper Athlete |
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| Developer | Konami (Japan) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 8162 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Sports |
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| Conversion Class | JAMMA |
| External Device | CDR |
| # Simultaneous Players | 4 |
| # Maximum Players | 4 |
| Game Play | Competitive |
| Control Panel Layout | Multiple Player |
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| Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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Game Introduction
A sport game where players must qualify across eleven olympic events. The game features 32-bit 3-D graphics, great sound, as well as voice. This arcade game is actually an optimized version of the Playstation game "International Track & Field" and it is a great modernization of Konami's original Track & Field game. World records are kept permanently.
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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Hyper Athlete Census
There are 14,774 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,483 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,626 machines (6,906 unique titles).
Uncommon - There are 15 known instances of this machine owned by Hyper Athlete collectors who are active members. Of these, 15 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Hyper Athlete circuit board for sale.
Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.
This game ranks a 4 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
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Legacy
- Hyper Olympic
- Hyper Olympic '84
- Konami '88
- Hyper Athlete
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