Olympic Decathlon Olympic Decathlon Olympic Decathlon is a sports game written by Timothy W. Smith for the TRS-80 and published in 1980 by Microsoft. In the game, the player competes in ten track and field events. The gold medalist for decathlon in the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics, Bruce Jenner, is a character. It was ported to the Apple II in 1981. The 1982 version for the IBM PC was renamed Microsoft Decathlon. The ten events in the game are the 100m run, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400m run, 100m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, and 1500m run. The running events
Daley Thompson's Decathlon the game placed on Eurogamer's "10 games that defined the ZX Spectrum" list. Daley Thompson's Decathlon Daley Thompson's Decathlon is a computer game developed and released under licence by Ocean Software in 1984. It was released in the wake of Daley Thompson's popularity following his gold medals in the decathlon at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games. A sequel, "Daley Thompson's Super-Test", was released in 1985. The player takes part in the ten events of the modern decathlon: The player starts the game with three lives; failure to reach the minimum standard in an event results in the loss of