Championship Sprint for ZX Spectrum

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Controls: 1 picks the championship, Space skips the credits and opens the setup. There press 1 for one player and 2 until player one shows Cursor (Kempston does not respond here), then 4 starts the game. 0 is the gas pedal and also starts the race on the spinning track wheel, ← and → steer. Hold menu keys for a moment.

Game controls in browser

Click on the play ZX Spectrum game now button first to load the game, with the stop / start button you can pause the emulation.
The game is controlled using the keyboard or joystick, just like on an old computer.

Championship Sprint

Online version of Championship Sprint for ZX Spectrum. Championship Sprint is a top-down arcade racing game developed and released in 1986 by the American company Atari Games as the follow-up to its Super Sprint coin-op. Of its 8 single-screen tracks 5 are new and 3 come from the predecessor, with ramps, bridges, gates and short cuts. On the cabinet 2 players race against computer-driven cars and trade golden wrenches for car upgrades. In 1988 Electric Dreams Software released conversions for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, which added an editor for custom tracks.

Game details

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Loading screen with the Championship Sprint logo and the Atari Games racer

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Electric Dreams presents, Catalyst Coders and Software Studios credits

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Number of players and controller choice per player

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Track selection wheel with eight circuits

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Four cars on the starting grid of the first track, a tornado on the straight

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Blue car crossing the finish line while the drones take the left bend

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Drones squeezing under the bridge on the bottom straight

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Winner's Circle with scores and best laps of the first three cars

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Blue car entering its name into the Championship Racing Team table

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Track Editor with a circuit and its tool icons

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Released in

1986

Publisher

Atari Games

Developer

Atari Games

Platforms

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You can play Championship Sprint online also in a versions for

ArcadeCommodore 64Amstrad CPC

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Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Online emulated version of Championship Sprint was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, it was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black and white display of its predecessor, the ZX81. The Spectrum was released as eight different models, ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built in floppy disk drive in 1987.
The Spectrum is based on a Zilog Z80 A CPU running at 3.5 MHz (or NEC D780C-1 clone). The original model has 16 KB (16×1024 bytes) of ROM and either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM. Hardware design was by Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research, and the outward appearance was designed by Sinclair's industrial designer Rick Dickinson.
Video output is through an RF modulator and was designed for use with contemporary television sets, for a simple colour graphic display. Text can be displayed using 32×24 characters from the ZX Spectrum character set or from a set provided within an application, from a palette of 15 shades: seven colours at two levels of brightness each, plus black. The image resolution is 256×192 with the same colour limitations.