Track & Field II on the NES takes the Olympic-themed sporting events of its predecessor and expands upon them with more realism, allowing players to represent a specific country in a grand sporting spectacle. There isn’t a traditional story, but the “Olympic” mode sees athletes competing across four days of intense events, aiming for gold medals against global rivals. Gameplay retains the series’ core of quick reflexes and button-mashing for speed and power in events like running and throwing, while introducing more complex controls and strategies for new disciplines such as fencing, taekwondo, canoeing, and archery. Reception at the time praised the game’s enhanced graphics and the variety of its 15 events, though some found the controls for certain events to be less intuitive and the overall difficulty quite challenging.
