Beyond the jumps, there are patches of rough terrain you’ll want to avoid and sometimes the tracks will turn entirely into rough terrain.
Pressing up or down switches you between the four lanes. Tracks each have four lanes with several jumps that can for the most part be used to jump from or land. The game is all about that risk and reward or just punishing you for your idiocy. If you hold left too long, you’ll fall off your bike. In later courses there are tiny barriers that you’ll need to hold left to do a wheelie over or they’ll trip you. Then there is a potential to run over your fellow racers, which will only hurt yourself as you tumble from your bike. It’s a neat cost for your failure and rivals can fall off their bikes to the bottom of the track. When you tumble off your motorcycle, you’ll be forced to button mash as you run from where you land to your bike. If you completely fail a landing such as facing nose down into a ramp, you’ll fall off your bike. Landing imperfectly can cause you to have a bounce which will lose you speed and or momentum. When you’re flying through the air with some sick 8-bit jumps, you can use the directional pad to tilt your bike so it lands with the terrain. You can also ride over zippers that you’ll find which will cool off your bike down to its minimum. The easy way to reduce your heat is stop using the faster throttle. Once you have too much heat, the game will warn you with an ear piercing siren, before you’re forced to wait for your bike to cool down. The A button uses the throttle to propel you forward while the B is some sort of faster throttle that will make you faster at the cost of increasing the heat of your bike. If you’re looking for a game to play with friends, this is a single player experience, unless you’d like to have one person design a course and torture the other player to play it. There are two modes with five tracks and a design mode that lets you make your own tracks. While the game itself is good and enjoyable to play, there’s just not much here. It has all the thrill and jumps of motocross with good mechanics, but rather than a real race, it was more like the other motorcycle pilots are mere obstacles that hinder your time. Excitebike for the Nintendo Entertainment System was one of the first pseudo racing games for the system.
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