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Championship Sprint
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Name: Championship Sprint Manufacturer: Atari Games Year: 1986 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Championship Sprint Pinout Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
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Championship Sprint DescriptionRace against 3 other formula-1 cars on several different track layouts for bonuses while avoiding oil slicks, pools of water, pop-up posts, tornadoes, and automatic doors. Bonuses include prize money and vehicle upgrades.Atari Games, the Championship Sprint maker, released 87 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Other machines made by Atari Games during the time period Championship Sprint was produced include 720 Degrees, Gauntlet II, Rolling Thunder, Super Sprint, A.P.B., Empire Strikes Back, Gauntlet, Gauntlet (PlayChoice), Peter Pack Rat, and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom. Championship Sprint - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.44 (3 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game PlayChampionship Sprint is an updated version of the old Atari Sprint series with the ability to upgrade your vehicle as the game progresses. Upgrades are won by collecting wrenches that appear once per track. After you have managed to collect four wrenches, you will be presented with an upgrade screen which gives you a chance to choose better traction, top speed, acceleration, or a faster helicopter. You can upgrade every time you collect four wrenches. If you crash head-on into a barricade, it's likely that your vehicle will be destroyed. If this happens, a helicopter will automatically airlift a replacement to the track. Naturally, this takes time and at the beginning of the game, it seems like an eternity. You can improve this time by upgrading the helicopter as mentioned previously. The replacement will have all of the vehicle upgrades that your previous car had. The tracks are all circular in nature and they vary from the simple oval to contorted tracks with many twists, turns, and bridges. There are also ramps and shortcuts that allow you to circumvent parts of the track. It's great fun with two players.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Championship Sprint CensusThere are 7,976 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 6,632 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 105,404 machines (5,065 unique titles).Very Common - There are 58 known instances of this machine owned by Championship Sprint collectors who are active members. Of these, 49 of them are original dedicated machines, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 8 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 6 active VAPS members with Championship Sprint machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Championship Sprint circuit board for sale. Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Championship Sprint. This game ranks a 38 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Championship Sprint Videogame machines and related items.Click to search eBay for machines and parts made by Atari Games. Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machine auctions, powered by Ace.com.
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