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DecAthlete, [a] released in Europe as Athlete Kings due to a licensing issue, [3] is a track-and-field themed arcade sports video game. On its unveiling, the gaming media generally described it as a modern clone of Daley Thompson's Decathlon. [2] [4] [5] Released in 1996, it was developed by Sega AM3 and produced by Sega.
The Activision Decathlon is a sports video game written by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1983. [4] It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, and MSX. Up to four players compete in the ten different events of a real-life decathlon, either in sequence or individually.
Daley Thompson's Decathlon was the ninth best-selling computer game of 1985 in the United Kingdom. [5]Sinclair User gave the game a score of 8/10. [1] The game won the award for Best (Overall) Arcade Game in the Crash magazine Readers Awards 1984 [6] and was the Best Arcade-Style Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards. [7]
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (déka, meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "contest" or "prize"). Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are ...
Olympic Decathlon is a sports video game written by Timothy W. Smith for the TRS-80 and published in 1980 by Microsoft. [1] In the game, the player competes in ten track and field events. The gold medalist for decathlon in the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics , Caitlyn Jenner (then known as Bruce Jenner ), is a character.
The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]
The men's decathlon competition featured as part of the athletics programme at the 1968 Summer Olympics and was held at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City on 18 and 19 October. American Bill Toomey won the gold medal with an Olympic record score of 8193 points.
The men's decathlon competition at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on 7 August and 8 August 2002 in Munich, Germany. ... 2.12: 48.48: 14.04: 46.88: