Championship
A cup of eight races with points, qualifying if you want it, a podium after each race and a champion at the end.
The Grand Prix, seen from a drone
Retro Sprint is a free top-down racing game that plays in the browser: up to sixteen cars on one screen, a drone filming the whole circuit from above, short laps, tight corners and bumps. A tribute to Atari’s Super Sprint (1986) and its Amstrad CPC conversion, made today.
PLAY- Free, no account
- Nothing to install
- Keyboard, gamepad, touch or your phone
- Up to 4 on one screen, 8 online
- English, French, Spanish
- Plays offline once opened
A lap in motion
A replay clip from the game will be shown here.
CLIP COMING SOONModes
26 circuits, each to be driven both ways: the Classic Cup, the World Cup and ten special events, against AI drivers at three levels.
Single race
Any circuit, either way round, any weather, 4 or 8 cars, the laps you like.
Elimination
Sixteen cars in single file behind the safety car. The lights go red, then green: at the end of every lap, the last car is out. The last one left wins.
Time trial and endurance
You against the clock and your ghost, with bronze, silver and gold medals on every circuit. In endurance, as many laps as you can under the silver time.
Daily challenge
One circuit and one weather a day, the same for everyone, and its own leaderboard. Every Sunday, an endurance challenge.
Training
Short drills on a piece of a circuit, tried again at once: braking, the racing line, car control. Medals to win here too.
Party Sprint
Two to four friends on the same screen, with gamepads, keyboards or phones: an evening of races drawn at random, points, a podium and trophies.
Online by code
Create a room, share its four-letter code or link, and race up to eight together: single races or a whole championship.
Editor and gallery
Draw your own circuit, choose its scenery, test it, then publish it to the gallery, where everyone can race it.
Special events
Ten events outside the cups, each with its own car: a 24-hour race through the night, an oval, rally stages, a desert raid, a hill climb, rallycross with its joker lap.
Cars
Formula cars in the cups, and in the special events the car of the event.
Formula
Light, quick and twitchy: the cups’ car, in the colours you pick in the garage.
Hypercars and GT
Endurance at Sarthe 24, the GT cars as slower traffic to get by, headlights at night.
IndyCar
The quickest of all, flat out round the banked oval, slipstream included.
Rally, buggy, rallycross
Built for gravel and sand: they slide, but lose less off the road.
Hill climb special
Huge power for the hairpins up to the snow line.
Weather and cameras
The same circuit never drives quite the same.
Dry, rain, storm, snow
Less grip and longer braking in the wet, puddles in a storm, white roads in the snow. The track dries as the race goes on.
Night
From afternoon to night and back to dawn in the 24-hour race, by headlights.
Drone and helicopter
The drone films the whole circuit from above, like the arcade game; the helicopter follows your car. A third camera is hidden somewhere.
Medals and sharing
Something to chase, and something to show.
Medals
Bronze, silver and gold times on every circuit and in every weather, worked out from the AI’s own laps.
Leaderboards and ghosts
Your three-letter tag on every board, today’s to all time’s, the world’s or your country’s; drive against the best laps’ ghosts.
SmartPad
Scan the QR code on screen and your phone becomes a controller: stick, throttle, brake and boost.
“Beat my lap” links
Send a lap: your friend races your ghost on that circuit.
Result pictures
Every result as a picture to send, copy or download: podium, times, weather.
Replays
Watch the race again after the flag.
Screenshots
Questions
Is it free?
Yes, entirely: no account, no ads, no in-game purchases.
What do I need to play?
A recent browser on a computer, tablet or phone (sideways), even a Tesla’s. A keyboard or a gamepad on a computer, touch controls on a phone, or your phone as a controller. It can be installed as an app and keeps working offline.
Can I play with friends?
Up to four on the same screen in Party Sprint, each with a gamepad, a keyboard or their phone, and up to eight online in a room joined by a code or a link.
Is it the original Super Sprint?
No: a new game, written from scratch as a tribute, with its own circuits, cars and graphics.
On the grid?
The lights go out in your browser, in seconds.
PLAYA fan tribute to Super Sprint (Atari Games, 1986) and its Amstrad CPC conversion (Electric Dreams, 1987). No affiliation with Atari, Warner Bros. or Formula 1.