Sprinter Monogatari: Mezase!! Ikkaku Senkin

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Sprinter Monogatari: Mezase Ikkaku Senkin
Title screen
Developer(s)	Video and Audio Project
Publisher(s)	Video and Audio Project
Platform(s)	Super Famicom
Release date	^JP April 17, 1995 ^[1]
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single-player
Rating(s)	n/a (not rated)
Media	12-megabit Cartridge
Input methods	Super Famicom controller

Sprinter Monogatari: Mezase!! Ikkaku Senkin (スプリンター物語めざせ一攫千金^?)^[2] is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System sports game where the player teaches an athlete how to ride his bicycle faster. The player must instill physical strength, tactical skills, and endurance in his bicycle racer just like a real coach would do. Bicycle racers become tired after training too hard; the coach must eventually assign free days when the athlete is tired. This would allow him to recover so that further exercise is possible. While spa vacations cost money, having the cyclist stay at home and rest cost nothing and accomplishes the same thing. Promoting the rider on television or other media may also bring in more money at the cost of training time. When starting a new game, the player has to enter his name using hiragana letters of the Japanese language. The next step would be to select a bicycle racing team to work under. Different teams are under different team colors and bicycles may vary from team to team.

Occasionally, the player has to let his protege compete in a bicycle race at a velodrome. The only control the player has over the competitor is to tell him when to start racing and how aggressive he should race. Winning means acquring a generous amount of money; although all positions give out some form of monetary reward. The AI-controlled cycler will start out as a young twentysomething. He would be 20 years old at the start of the game; this assumes that the virtual cyclist was born in 1975 because the game was released in 1995. As the years progress (in addition to the months and days), the virtual athlete will gradually age and lose some ability on the velodrome. Eventually, he will become an aging veteran and will have to retire from his career.