Sprint 2
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| Developer(s) | Kee Games |
| Publisher(s) | Kee Games |
| Designer(s) | Dennis Koble & Lyle Rains |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
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| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | One-player or Two-player game |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| CPU | 6502 |
| Display | Raster (black and white), standard resolution |
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 arcade game to use a CPU to control part of the game.
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.
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.
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