By 1988 the games industry was changing and this kind of freebie was making way for the 16 bit ’big-boxes’ with their games on disk and free novellas, maps and other such items. But there was still time for Ocean to give the free audio tape one last try. As it was also the year of the Seoul Olympics and Daley Thompson was about to fail miserably in his attempt to get a third consecutive Olympic gold medal, what better time to drag the original joystick-waggler back on to our screens for another game?

Four years on from the original DT’s Decathlon and Ocean needed to come up with a good hook to support what was basically the same game with some graphical bells and whistles. But this was the year that New Order’s remix of Blue Monday was set on its way to becoming the best selling twelve inch single of all time, so you would be forgiven for thinking that Daley Thompson’s Olympic Challenge electro-pop theme (that was also used in chiptune form as the in-game theme) was a masterstroke by the marketing department.

 Unfortunately, whilst in-game it was a very good example of what chips such as the Spectrum 128k’s AY could produce, as a standalone audio track it was less than inspiring, sounding more like a free backing track on a cheap Casio keyboard than a New Order tune.