The Vintage: Track & Field

How we played the olympic back in the 80's

Track & Field

It was realesed by konami in 1984 (my year of birth :)) I remember the afternoon play time, when we pushed repeatedly our buttons and thought that we were flying in the track like Ben Johnson, for the ones that don't know who he is, he was like Usain Bold... preety fast actually.

Well, the purpose of this title was to compete in different summer olympic sports that were:
-100 meter Dash -Long jump -Javelin throw -110 Meter Herdles - Hammer Throw and High Jump. The player had three chances to accomplish the event to go to the next one. Considering that now we have the kinetic among us, where we almost literally compete in the sports, this game was quite boring and sucks badly hahaha but for us at that time it was like The Bomb!

Note: I'm not sure in this one but I kind of  remember we ran in a type of rug the made the role of the controller, which makes me wonder why we didn't have the kinetic before hahaha. (I'll leave you guys with the doubt.)

Ggive it a try =)

http://www.1980-games.com/us/old-games/nintendo/t/Track_and_Field/game.php

Later Guys.

Gasa

The Vintage: Contra

Back in the 80's this title was our MW3 (it's quite far from it considering that is a third person shooter and had very crappy graphics, but I compare them for you to have some idea of what it is like).

Konami released it in 1987.

The player controls one of the two commandos named Bill and Lance, who were sent to a mission against a terrorist group called the Red Falcon Organization like as usual in the old days was planning to take the world, I also have to mention that some terrorists look like aliens O.0

You, as the main character, were equipped with a rifle with an endless amount of ammo but you also have the possibility to be armed with more lethal weapons if you catch some power balls across your path but the truth was that it was kind of difficult to keep the new weapon because it only requierd a single enemy hit to loose it. You were able to shoot every direction you want as well as jump or move simultaneously while shooting.

It was a very challenging but funny game to play, try it yourself.

 http://nintendo8.com/game/60/contra/

Later, GASA