Talk:The Activision Decathlon

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Fair use rationale for Image:Thedecathloncover.jpg[edit]

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Fair use rationale for Image:Decathlon.ss1.gif[edit]

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BetacommandBot 12:41, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Daley Thompson[edit]

In the UK, I think this game was sold as Daley Thompson's Decathlon for the Atari 8 bit. Could anyone confirm? --Vince (talk) 12:11, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Controller Damage[edit]

Not sure how relevant is this (hence I'm putting it here and not on the article), but I am 99% sure you didn't have to use speed, but rhythm to increase the athlete's performance (of course, none of the kids knew that, and destroyed their controllers, for Atari's sales channels' amusement). Still not found an authoritative source for that, but will update here if I do. Chester br (talk) 14:12, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is a myth. Source: OR, after breaking a couple of controllers, I build by own using a spring as the central pin. Moved ridiculously fast and broke all records, without any rhythm being involved. 213.160.108.26 (talk) 20:56, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]