Legacy
The game is a successor to Gran Trak 10 and the Sprint series, which were black-and-white games with very primitive graphics from the 1970s. Later in 1986 Championship Sprint was released which is almost identical, but with different tracks, and with a standard-size two-player cabinet instead of Super Sprint's wide 3P cabinet.
Because Super Sprint was so simple and this type of game is relatively easy to create, it inspired many similar games, mostly from hobbyists. However some published games contain a tribute with similar mini games including Jet Force Gemini and The Simpsons Hit & Run. The Skidmarks series of games for the Amiga and Mega Drive/Genesis also shows a strong Super Sprint influence in terms of gameplay and graphics, as does the Super Off Road arcade game.
In the 2000s, overhead racing provides a "retro" niche in contrast to the popular and high-tech 3D games of the day. For example "PadRacer" became a top-100 iPad game, although the Super Sprint -style overhead racing is tremendously simpler than the many high-tech, very realistic 3D race games (such as "Real Racing") popular on the iPad.
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