Excitebike

released on Nov 28, 1984

Excitebike is a motocross racing video game franchise made by Nintendo. It first debuted as a game for the Famicom in Japan in 1984 and as a launch title for the NES in 1985. It is the first game of the Excite series.


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I find this game quite boring! However, for a NES title, it is quite decent! I would say the 3D Classics version is slightly better due to having more personality at least.

Amy game with a level editor is a good game in my books

Eh, it's alright. I'm sure it was much more exciting in its time, which is not when I played it.

Excitebike is considered one of the most classic NES games, being one of the first racing games on the system, and being remembered by its small, but nice soundtrack, its tight controls and, overall, its fun gameplay.

It's a very simple racing game, and if you select "Selection A", you don't even race against other racers.
Regardless of what mode you select, you are racing against time and trying to, at least, get 3rd Place, so you can move on to the next track.

One thing that I appreciate about this game is that there's a course editor, which is something you rarely saw in racers back then!
It's very primative, but it's still a nice addition.

There's nothing else to the game besides this though, you just race and that's pretty much it. It's fun regardless.

Originally played this on Animal Crossing alongside Clu Clu Land, Donkey Kong 1 and Jr. Math.
Always thought it was a pretty nice game for what it last. It gets stale just like your average Atari 2600 game but the speed did felt pretty nice at first impact.