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[Nintendo NES] World Class Track Meet

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This game is excellent. The game was delivered in extremely good condition. It is an excellent game, and provides excellent cardiovascular exercise for rainy or cold days.

Times have changed, but looking at the Wii, Nintendo were always headed in that direction. I remember the commercials when the Power-pad came out and this was the game that was mostly used to advertise the then 'new' accessory. They had aerobics games and right here, you even had a running game.

The game is as advertised - track & field. Going off of memory, but you have a series of events that you can go through in a sort of mini-Olympiad. You have a 100 meter dash, high hurdles, long jump and I think there was even the triple-jump as well. The characters that you run against ranged from a slower guy (aptly named "Turtle") and the fastest was I think named "Cheetah". You could also run against your friends on this too.

This was released back in the mid-late 1980's, and though you could get the accessory separately there was a Nintendo '3' pack that I think had Track & Field, the gun with duckhunt and Super Mario brothers. While the game was ok, getting to a level to be able to beat the fastest runners proved very difficult to do and some events like the triple-jump were tricky to figure out. Still, for nostalgia's sake, it was a fun game and looking at the exercise aspect, Nintendo was way ahead of the game (no pun intended).

I do have one spoiler - so look away if you don't want to know this quasi-cheat... I remember some kids messing around with this and just hitting the pads very quickly with their fists to get the sprinters to run faster. :)

Excellent condition got here in good time too, I will definitely buy from these guy again :D