Reviews
1985 Martech (UK)
by Ian McArdle and Malcolm Smith
Why do I have so good memories of this game?
It is so awful! Incredibly boring and badly executed! If the authors wanted to compete with 'Decathlon' or 'Hyper Sports', boy, how they failed!
1,5 points (for memories sake only!)
Review by Raphie on 15 Mar 2012 (Rating: 1)
Martech decided to compete with Ocean and Daley Thompson's Decathlon with Brian Jacks' Superstar Challenge...and wow they failed miserably.
It's slow, boring, tedious and nowhere near as enjoyable as Decathlon. The Archery event is absolutely pathetic and shambolic and a far cry away from Hyper Sports. The running and cycling events are painfully slow in which you never even get close to the cycling record as you move ever so slowly even with "gears". And I just gave up after the football event.
I'm just in total awe over how shockingly appalling this is, then again Brian Jacks didn't have much luck really as he also lent his name toward Uchi Mata, currently among the top 100 worst games on World of Spectrum...poor chap.
Review by YOR on 19 Jan 2014 (Rating: 1)
Attempts to match Decathlon and Hyper Sports but doesn't get anywhere close. An absolute nightmare to play. What were they thinking?
Review by Stack on 23 Jan 2015 (Rating: 1)
Oh dear. I liked Brian Jacks, unlikely hero of the squat thrusts.
A piss poor attempt at a Hypersports lookalike.
