The tune that plays on the title screen is an adaptation of "Rydeen" by the Japanese synth-pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. This version was re-arranged by Martin Galway.
My dad broke loads when I was a kid .The Joystick used to snap off in his hand with the base still stick to the table ,with the suction cups that you licked for extra suction 😂
I used to play this on my friend's Atari who lived across the street back in the 80's. Watching this brought back so many memories, especially the incredibly sore red patch on the centre of my palm from making Daley run. Timing was everything in this game.
TheLemminkainen I always keep a seperate joystick aside for games like this, no way am I going to use my Quickshot II Turbo's on these type of games,...it will be destroyed :-(
Played this all the time back in the day. If I remember correctly, you could break the track records by holding down CTRL and tapping 2. Much better than massacring your joysticks! And if you got the angle right on the javelin, you'd bring down a satellite with CCCP on it :D
Is that what it was? I just came to this after being linked to it in a Commodore 64 group and after looking I have a shadowy memory of being able to hold a key down and hitting a supernaturally high speed.
Well if you mean the side boarders you don't actually see them on a normal tv, for some reason youtube show the wider view of the game there are quite a few other games that do this on many old systems.
@@ZEUSDAZ Of course you see the borders on a normal TV. The "field stretch" in this game was indeed made by waiting for certain raster lines and then changing the border color, this was quite common. The top and bottom borders were conquered quite early, but it was long thought impossible to be able to display any graphics in the side borders, until some clever programmers figured out a way to trick the machine into drawing sprites in there.
Rather than wrecking your joystick you could use CTRL and 2 instead. However if you had access to an Atari cx80 trackball controller you smashed the running events in record time and the likes of throwing events were a doddle
Wow, that crowd is crap. Had this back in 1984 and this is the first time I've looked it up. Seemed so much better back then, but that is progress I guess.
![Daley Thompson's Decathlon Longplay (C64) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AhsAKRqpy4s/mqdefault.jpg)
The tune that plays on the title screen is an adaptation of "Rydeen" by the Japanese synth-pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. This version was re-arranged by Martin Galway.
Indeed. Also heard in the 1982 Sega game Super Locomotive.
Minute silence for all those joysticks that never made it. 😂
Yeah lol.
My dad broke loads when I was a kid .The Joystick used to snap off in his hand with the base still stick to the table ,with the suction cups that you licked for extra suction 😂
@@MrGoldie1976 As a 14 year old kid back then i can definitely relate. Rubber hands back in the day
4 or 5 🕹 joysticks.... I think I've got "Repetitive strain injury" .... We should of sued Ocean 😅 .
The atari joystick was king
I used to play this on my friend's Atari who lived across the street back in the 80's. Watching this brought back so many memories, especially the incredibly sore red patch on the centre of my palm from making Daley run. Timing was everything in this game.
4:07 Hearing that tune again brought me into a wormhole back to 1987.
I must of broke four of five joysticks on this game and they weren't cheap back then as my parents would testify! Great memories.
Quickshot 4 were the best but they still got busted with this game. 😄
many broke joystics and broken elbows :) Loader music is Rydeen
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TheLemminkainen I always keep a seperate joystick aside for games like this, no way am I going to use my Quickshot II Turbo's on these type of games,...it will be destroyed :-(
TAC-2 was tough!
ZEUSDAZ - THE UNEMULATED RETRO GAME CHANNEL I broke my joystick on those weird c64 porn games. ;'(
Had some right arm after it
TheLemminkainen it was this game that crowned the ATARI 2600 joystick king back in the day lol
Loved this game back in the day. I used to run so fast the speed bar would shoot out of the indicator. Oh those were the days .
That loading screen is hilarious lol. Great game though.
Daley Thompson's has special place in my childhood memories because of the C64 game 🙂
Broke so many Quickshot 2 joysticks playing this 🙄
Ha ha same here the suckers on the bottom
I think everyone killed Competition Pro playing this 😂
Quickshot 2 ohhh my god blast from the past❤
Onset Arthritis in every joint in my right Arm thanks to this
Oh man this brings back memories
the loading screen scared me back in the day. that picture needs updated LOL
Played this all the time back in the day. If I remember correctly, you could break the track records by holding down CTRL and tapping 2. Much better than massacring your joysticks! And if you got the angle right on the javelin, you'd bring down a satellite with CCCP on it :D
Is that what it was? I just came to this after being linked to it in a Commodore 64 group and after looking I have a shadowy memory of being able to hold a key down and hitting a supernaturally high speed.
@@vapourmile it's been a long time but that's what I remember... it doesn't work on the Vice emulator though so perhaps not lol.
one of my many favorites :)
Memories
The long jump looked like he was in a paddling pool.
Game starts at 3:25 -.- ... .... or better 4:05 ;)
I could never work out why his head was squashed??! As painful watching today in 2024 as playing it back in 1983!
this used to give me palm blisters
Just found this in my loft and Googled it
Did they change the border color scan line by scan line to make the track fill the screen?
Well if you mean the side boarders you don't actually see them on a normal tv, for some reason youtube show the wider view of the game there are quite a few other games that do this on many old systems.
@@ZEUSDAZ Of course you see the borders on a normal TV. The "field stretch" in this game was indeed made by waiting for certain raster lines and then changing the border color, this was quite common. The top and bottom borders were conquered quite early, but it was long thought impossible to be able to display any graphics in the side borders, until some clever programmers figured out a way to trick the machine into drawing sprites in there.
The tearing on the right hand side suggests so. Timer jitter.
Daley was white on the ZX Spectrum version.
Gotta keep the "you're racist" callers happy ;-)
Did he just run 100m in 8.6 seconds ?! That's pretty fast for a decathlete
Juiced up MEGA!
Thx for the game video I cannot do the hurdles 110 metre on laptop keyboard.
Spam the numkeys.
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Rather than wrecking your joystick you could use CTRL and 2 instead. However if you had access to an Atari cx80 trackball controller you smashed the running events in record time and the likes of throwing events were a doddle
I broke loads of joysticks on this game.
lol
Hunchback.
when the load screen is better than the game...
Yeah lol, Isn't that actually alot of cases with the C64?!,...bad game dressed up with good music ;-)
Look at the Crowd!!! It was so crap...But that's all there was! How WE suffered!
The ZX version ruled.
@ZEUSDAZ no it did not, every school kid knew the spectrum was a doorwedge!
Wow, that crowd is crap. Had this back in 1984 and this is the first time I've looked it up. Seemed so much better back then, but that is progress I guess.
What the fuck is going on with those owl eyes!?
Funky music :)
this might be the worst game of it's time. def in the top 10.
There were tons of bad C64 games, just they were dressed up with good music.
@@ZEUSDAZ ok this point is fair. There is fairness in this point. It is not unfair.