Track & Field II (NES)

Track & Field II is the second NES Track & Field game.

Revisional Differences#

Main Menu#

For the 2nd revision, the menu was centered and "Olympic" was changed to "Championship".

USA Revision 1	USA Revision 2

Password#

Similar to certain revisions of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest and Metal Gear, the password system was updated, replacing all vowels and certain consonants (C, F and S) with symbols.

USA Revision 1	USA Revision 2

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

Besides the complete logo change, the pink on the Konami logo was changed to red and the logo itself was slightly redrawn, and some of the company information was modified.

Japan	USA	Europe

Password Screen#

The password screen lost a lot of detail in the international versions, removing the graphic of the athlete, the red border, the bow at the bottom of the password entry and the underlines beneath the "Password please." text. The password entry was also centered and the previously mentioned text was changed to blue, which also slightly affects the colors of the shoes.

Japan	US/Europe

Typewriter Screen#

To keep with Nintendo of America's policies at the time, the lit cigarette and the ash tray it's in was removed in the international versions.

Japan	US/Europe

Portraits#

Some of the character portraits are totally redrawn between regions, possibly because they looked like they were melting in the Japanese version.

Japan	USA

Credits#

A staff roll that was present in the Japanese version was omitted from the international versions, despite being completely in English. In the Japanese version, the text can be easily read in the game's code, but the text was completely removed in the western versions. The full text reads as follows:

PROGRAM

   KONAMIC UENO

   PEGUCHI KUN

   YAMADA J.J

CHARACTER DESIGN

   CONPAGNO OGIKUBO

   PEISUKE TAKAKI

   TANPAN SOMA

   MR. MIYAUCHI

SOUND EFFECT
  ALL SOUND STAFF
  OF FC KUKEIHA TEAM

AND
KONAMI BUG CHECK CLUB

       KONAMI 1988

Miscellaneous#

• "OLYMPIC MODE" was changed to "CHAMPIONSHIP MODE" (only for USA Revision 2).
• The torch icon has a different shading.
• Some of the background colors during gameplay are different.
• In the Japanese version, anything that isn't selected is a gray version of the select graphic. The US version doesn't have this at all.

Japan	USA