I played Sparkster (the SNES one, not 2) before this, and I'm not too sure which I prefer. I thought this was more fun and had a bit less screen crunch, but Sparkster looks way better and has better music. Either way, both are really fucking good. I wonder if Sparkster would have caught on like Mario and Sonic had he not debuted during a slew of unrelated mediocre ripoffs of the latter, like Bubsy and Awesome Possum. Probably not, but it's interesting to think about.