Championship Sprint - Videogame by Atari Games

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Championship Sprint

Name: Championship Sprint
Developer: Atari Games

Year: 1986
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Racing
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Medium Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Atari System II
Game Specific: Championship Sprint Pinout

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Competitive
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Championship Sprint Description

Race 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.

Championship Sprint was produced by Atari Games in 1986.

Atari Games released 88 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 Super Sprint, 720 Degrees, Gauntlet II, Rolling Thunder, A.P.B., Road Runner, Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back, Gauntlet, Gauntlet (PlayChoice), and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom.

Championship Sprint - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.27 (5 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 4.10

     Overall 'Like': 4.75
     Fun (Social): 4.75
     Fun (Solo): 3.00
     Collector Desire: 3.25

Technical Impressions Score: 3.05

     Gameplay: 3.80
     Graphics: 3.75
     Originality: 2.75
     Sound/Music: 3.25

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.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Play

Championship 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 Census

There are 12,133 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,623 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 163,035 machines (6,848 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 182 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 73 of these machines are owned by our active Championship Sprint collectors. And of these, 58 are original dedicated machines, 2 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 13 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with Championship Sprint machines for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Championship Sprint.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

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 13 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Legacy

Sprint 2 (1976)
Sprint 4 (1977)
Sprint 8 (1977)
Sprint One (1978)
Super Sprint (1986)
Championship Sprint (1986)
Badlands (1989)

Manuals

Schematic Package Supplement 31 Pages, 2.1 MB File.
Colour Operators Manual with Illustrated Parts list 92 Pages, 3.4 MB File.
Operators Manual With Illustrated Parts Lists 63 Pages, 6.7 MB File.

Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Championship Sprint Flyer #184

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	1. Championship Sprint Arcade Marquee 23.5" x 7.2" Auction ends in: 1 week, 2 days
	FixedPrice	$22.95
	2. Atari Championship Sprint Dual Gas Pedal Assembly Auction ends in: 3 weeks, 3 days
	FixedPrice	$82.99
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	FixedPrice	$695.00
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	FixedPrice	$150.00
	6. PAPERBOY APB CHAMPIONSHIP SPRINT 21-17311-01 DEC 310es CPU used tested working Auction ends in: 3 days, 1 hour
	FixedPrice	$79.00
	7. Atari Championship Sprint to Paperboy control panel arcade wiring adapter Auction ends in: 4 weeks, 23 hours
	FixedPrice	$60.00
	8. UNTESTED ATARI Championship Sprint CPU Only ARCADE GAME PCB board C11b Auction ends in: 1 week, 4 days
	FixedPrice	$180.00
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	FixedPrice	$149.00
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