C64-Longplay - Decathlon (720p)

[@Aphamino]

There wasn't a joystick that this game couldn't break.

[@WexMajor82]

Yes. There was the TAC2 that had some resistance, but it was far from indestructible.

[@DiamondJake01]

Hell no-one could play this game with modern gamepads, and modern joysticks are far too expensive to risk playing this game lolll

[@magicmulder]

I hardly ever played the 400m and the 1500m, so one good microswitch joystick carried me through several years playing this game. With records close to the technical maximum.

[@LEGOpachinko]

Suzo joysticks held up pretty nice. It had micro switches for the stick.

[@tinahanel8930]

​@@magicmuldercompetition pro joystick was good

[@YensR]

the joystick killer :D

[@DerNuesser]

Yeah, used the ones from the Atari console, broke lots of them ;-)

[@DiamondJake01]

So true... i dunno how many joysticks were destroyed by this game lollll... crazy awesome game xD. I think the 1500 meters was the worst and most painful to do lolll

[@oliver4953]

Awesome game - I get the warm feeling of my childhood when I see the graphics and hear the sounds.

[@Georg1979]

Wow! Absolutely amazing competition! It couldn't have been any closer. Well done both players!

[@capzisediam5845]

Da qualmten die alten Joystick´s ;-)

[@DerNuesser]

OMG, loved this game, played it like crazy :-D

[@basehead617]

The animations in this game are really satisfying for some reason.. i love how they're totally different for many of the events

[@joesilver75]

Fosbury style high jump... but with straight run :-)

[@budman85]

I remember playing it so much as a kid. I did get gold and took a photo of the TV to send into Activision but never did. Reading about the broken joysticks, I thought I was the only one that would rip the stick out, literally broken off. Usually in frustration. I remember buying an Epyx joystick with micro switch controllers instead of the plastic crap from Atari.

[@basehead617]

The other thing that's really impressive is that if you put in a good effort, the results are actually pretty reasonably close to a good olympic-level result in each event.

[@krzysztofpalka8685]

It was always competition :)

[@Balthazare69]

I still playing this on pc emulator xD

[@istruireabuonmercatocaprei7883]

2.40 in high jump was impossible

[@foreignwarren7361]

No sand in the long jump pit always bothered me 😂

[@kathyshmurtz8614]

Just use a competition pro star (slow motion) or an amiga mouse CX24 - Pro-Line Joystick is for Pros

[@alessandroc5238]

I have supported player 2. But in truth this game was the joystick killer and the arm killer heehheeh

[@cohensens453]

This game is the shit! Game developer's should play this all the time i think... Better games now!!!

[@alexm.6996]

Best Cheat Code is to use a mouse

[@jmp01a24]

Cheater---->no way you wiggled the joystick to get those speeds, but you applied hacking tool or a device to fire the cylinders of left and right.