Reviews

Just discovered this one.
I like that it incorporates different mini games. I totally love the beeper music and sound from Tim Follin.
So, I wanted to love this game - and it is graphically smooth and competently coded - but each "event" is a relatively poor / simple offering, and there isn't much to make the overall game greater than the sum of its parts.
Worth checking out for some very impressive beeper music, if you like that sort of thing, and enough game to amuse for fifteen minutes.

1986 Mastertronic (UK)
by Mike Follin, Peter Gough, Mark Wilson & Timothy Follin

I was always a sucker for this type of sports games, and the ones with unusual events were always a bonus.
Future games however turned out to be a big disappointment to me and I think is a good example on what not to do. It features at least 6 different events and a repeated one on side B, plus a celebration ending (even if you score badly).

Each event could be by itself an individual game, but I'm certain it wouldn't go far, because the quality is terrible.
Just one event was to my liking, because it's the most playable, but still very average.
From start to finish each event appears to have the same bad programming mistakes, bad key response, bad collision detection, and it doesn't appear to exist any particular link between your performance in one event and the next, so you could just play any you choose to without affecting the whole, unlike what happens in Hyper Sports or Decathlon, for example.
Sound is the only redeeming feature.

Not the worst of its kind but certainly far less enjoyable than I hoped it would be. Very disappointing.

A "futuristic" sport simulation composed by five different events, where you perform some tasks like running while being pursued by a hideous beast or fly around in a jetpack shooting nasties.

A collection of mini-games which is better than the sum of its part. None of the events are particularly complex or refined, but together they make a pretty solid combination. Graphics are simple but clean and colorful, and the sound department can count on some nice tunes by beeper maestro Tim Follin.

A honest, no-frills budget game with some variety. 7/10