Holding the controller on its side, I had some good fun with this, until I got to the Hammer Throw event. I just couldn’t get the timing right and didn’t get a single throw that counted. Game Over. I did improve my scores in the earlier events, though, and now I’m only bottom of my Friends Leaderboard in the 100m. I’m near the bottom in the rest, but there are some people below me, thank goodness.

I really love the announcer in this game. I get so nostalgic for my childhood every time I hear her synthesized voice. Back in the day I could only hear that sort of thing in the arcade. The ZX Spectrum, lovely though it was, wasn’t great for producing speech.

My favourite bit of eighties speech ever? “Here goes nothing!” on the Return of the Jedi arcade machine. I kept dying about two seconds after hearing that, but kept pumping money in, so it just hooked itself into my brain on a loop and has never completely gone away, even twenty years later.