Family Trainer: Jogging Race

a.k.a. Family Trainer Series 4: Jogging Race / ファミリートレーナーシリーズ4 ジョギングレース

published by Bandai in 1987-05-28, developed by Human, running on Nintendo Entertainment System

type: sport
genre: Exergame
series: Family Trainer
perspective: side view
player options: single player

languages: jpn

Personal review

The 4th game in Bandai's game series for the Nintendo Powerpad peripheral. This was the first game in the series that was only released in Japan. The game features two modes. First one is jogging training. You define your stats (weight, height, age) and the minutes you want to train. Boring. The second mode is a marathon mode. Also kind of boring. But here you have some obstacles and luckily the marathon is divided into several parts. So you can take breaks during the constant running. Background graphics are nice, and the animations are ok as well. It just lacks interesting things to do... at least in this regard they simulated the "real" jogging quite well.