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Numan Athletics

Numan Athletics
Namco Numan Athletics.png
Title screen snapshot (from the two-player version).
Developer(s) Namco
Publisher(s) Namco
Composer(s) Nobuyoshi Sano
Platform(s) Arcade, Virtual Console
Release date(s) Arcade
  • JP: September 1993

Virtual Console
  • JP: April 28, 2009
Genre(s) Sports game
Mode(s) Up to 4 players
(simultaneously for Turbo Dash, Numan Sniper and Nonstop Rock Chop, alternating for Interceptor, Missile Toss, Vs. Express, Tower Topper and Niagara Jumps)
Cabinet Upright, cabaret, and cocktail
Arcade system Namco NA-2
CPU 1x Motorola 68000 @ 12.5 MHz,
1x Motorola M37702 @ 12.5 MHz
Sound 1x C140 @ 44.1 kHz
Display Horizontal orientation, Raster, 288 x 224 resolution, 4096 palette colors

Numan Athletics (ニューマンアスレチックス Nyūman Asurechikkusu?) is a sports arcade game, released by Namco in 1993; it runs upon the company's NA-2 hardware, and has eight unusual (and unbelievable) competitions. These competitions are to test the strength and might of four mutant athletes called "Numans" (Sharon L'Halles, Harry Boffin, Masaemon Nakamura, and Bongo Tembo) - and up to four people can play simultaneously (or, depending upon the event, alternately). The game later went on to spawn a sequel, Mach Breakers: Numan Athletics 2, in 1994; it featured seven brand-new (and selectable) Numans. The other games that ran on NA-2 hardware were Knuckle Heads (1992), Nettō! Gekitō! Quiz-tō!! (also 1993), and X-Day 2 (which was released after this one, in 1995) - and the latter is also a sequel to X-Day, which was released later in 1993.

The four playable characters in this game are as follows (in 2P cabinets, they are selectable and not assigned by start button presses):

Each of the eight events takes place in a different country, and the Numans' journey is charted by a Knuckle Heads-style compere (along with his two "bunny girls", who come up from the bottom of the screen when a Numan succeeds in some, but not all, of the events):


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