Cabinet Upright Initial release date 2 November 1976 Genre Racing video game | CPU 6502 | |
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Mode(s) One-player or Two-player game Display Raster (black and white), standard resolution Racing video games Super Sprint, Gran Trak 10, Night Driver, Championship Sprint, Badlands | ||
1976 atari sprint 2 arcade game
Sprint 2 is a 2 player overhead-view arcade racer released in 1976 by Kee Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of Atari. It was the first auto racing arcade game to use a CPU to control part of the game.
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Sprint 2 by kee games 1976
Technology
Sprint 2 evolved from Gran Trak 10 and Gran Trak 20, but included a microprocessor (the 6502), a first for racing games. This allowed Sprint 2 to include two computer-controlled cars, better graphics, and more tracks. Unlike Gran Trak, this machine did not have brake pedals, but the players could still make their cars "fishtail" by turning their steering wheels abruptly.
Legacy
Sprint 2 was the first in a long series of games, some of which bore its name into the 1980s.
Sprint 2 was also believed to be the first Atari product to feature the well-known 'Atari arcade font'.
In 2016 a reverse engineered version to Javascript became available.