[5] The following month, it was one of the top five table arcade cabinets on the Game Machine charts.

[10] Roger C. Sharpe of Play Meter called it an "exceptional follow-up" to Track & Field.

[12] The home computer conversions of Hyper Sports went on to top the UK all-formats chart for two months in the summer of 1985, from July to August.

[14] The ZX Spectrum version won the award for best sports simulation of the year from Crash magazine,[15] and was later voted number 59 in the Your Sinclair "Top 100 Games of All Time" list.

[17] Two events from the game, skeet shooting and vault, featured on the BBC television programme First Class.