Interesting tangent:
I just finished “Console Wars” by Blake J. Harris which basically is a very well researched dramatization of the late 80s/ early 90s console wars from the point of view of Sega of America.
It’s relevant here because Mode 7 was a big deal and one of the bigger technical advantages the SNES had over the Genesis/Megadrive. Mario Kart and the like was a really effective blow back at Sega at a time when Sega finally was able to leap ahead of Nintendo. But also mode 7 turned out to be a huge marketting advantage in Nintendo’s favor purely in advertising.
Sega of America’s marketing coined Blast Processing as a purely counter marketing maneuver and is nowhere nearly as technically interesting. However they succeeded in getting it implanted in people’s collective consciousness for a long time as something comparable to mode 7.