Pocket Gamer: Utter the name Daley Thompson to any gamer old enough to recall the days of the ZX Spectrum and you may catch a slight wince or an involuntary twitch of the arm.
Those are muscle-memory responses to long-suppressed physical training on Daley Thompson's Decathlon: a sports title from the 8-bit era which has gone down in video game legend as one of the driving forces behind the thriving joystick replacement industry of the 1980s.
