Top Gear 3000, later released in Japan as The Planet's Champ: TG3000 (プラネットチャンプ TG3000), is a racing video game developed by Gremlin Interactive and published by Kemco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Placing this game a thousand years in the future allowed the developers to plausibly include futuristic and improbable technologies, and abandon the relative realism of Top Gear 2.

[2] The introduction states that anonymous benefactors and funders have created a massive galaxy-wide racing campaign at the outset of each millennium,[3] and reward the winner with "riches beyond belief".

The Galactic Conglomerate of Unified Planets, controlling the Bureau of Reasonable Entertainment, has maintained an era of calm and peaceful co-existence through the systematic suppression of any radical thought or action that may "stir up" the teeming masses of citizens populating the twelve star systems under their jurisdiction.

[4] Outlaw thrill seekers that have too much money and not enough excitement in their lives to keep them occupied turn to the Top Gear 3000 Challenge.

Players start off with identical cars and may change the color, name, speed units (MPH or km/h), and the button layout.

Unlike in previous Top Gear games with a few pre-generated layouts, players may adjust any function to any button desired.

After races are won, players then spend earned credits replacing the engine, gearbox, tyres, armour, boost, and adding "weapons" capability.

The password system can also be used for cheats, a common one which uses a B for the first three slots (BBB) to give the player millions of credits which then allows for all upgrades to be eventually purchased as they are developed.

They elaborated that the weapons are not truly important to the action and that many of the outer space locales "look suspiciously Earthlike", leaving the "terrific" four-player mode as the only element to set Top Gear 3000 apart from the many racers which preceded it.