If that bar reaches full (or critical) level, then the player stops until it cools down.Īt the beginning of the game, the player has the option to select any track (one through five). The B button provides a better boost than the A button, but raises the temperature bar. The D-Pad controls movement (as well as balance when the player is in mid-air) and the A and B buttons control acceleration. Regardless of which track the player is racing on, the first place time is always eight seconds less than the third place time. That time is for third place, but the first place time is always displayed on the stadium of the stage. The time to qualify depends on what track the player is on, but is always displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen. The goal of Excitebike is to qualify for the championship race (the Excitebike). Another new feature in this version is the ability to save the game allowing lap records and custom track saves. In this version, the 3D differs from the 3D mode in most of the other games available for the console in that instead of just converting to 3D it also changes to a completely new camera angle.
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After the thirty days expired it became a paid download on the service.
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To celebrate the release of the 3DSware service on June 6, 2011, 3D Classics Excitebike was available to all as a free download for thirty days. Excitebike was part of the short-lived e-Reader (title Excitebike-e). It can also be found as an item in Animal Crossing (and it can be played). There isn't a "Selection A" and "Selection B," but instead the first race is the player racing alone, and then the championship race has computer controlled opponents.Įxcitebike is an unlockable in Excitebike 64.
The Design Mode has been removed, there are three difficulty modes to choose from (Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced), and there are now seven tracks. The title is essentially the same as the NES version, with a few differences. Excitebike was first released after the Famicom release in 1984, and later released on the Famicom Disk System. It is the first in the Excite series, which also includes Excitebike 64, Excite Truck, and the obscure BS Excitebike Bun Bun Mario Stadium. It's as easy as a ROM dump! Hudson seems to get it.Overview Excitebike, title screen for the NES version.Įxcitebike is a Nintendo motorcycle racing game. Nintendo's sitting on all these cool Satellaview/Disk System remakes or expansions of their most popular systems, when they could be simultaneously making a lot of fans of their biggest franchises happy and preserving some really interesting history. Aside from that, some Mario Kart 64 voice samples, and the addition of minigames, it's Excitebike! But isn't that enough? Picking up enough coins triggers a "super" mode in which turbo never causes the bike to overheat. In this game, Mario and friends race dirt bikes in the Mushroom Kingdom, picking up coins and mushrooms to increase speed and reduce engine temperature.
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Basically a Mario Kart-ized version of Excitebike, ExciteBike: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium was released in a serial format which added a new racer and track to the game in every iteration. The impact of the track-saving ability has been reduced somewhat by the Virtual Console version of Excitebike, which also features this capability, but those of us who had the NES cartridge and tried to use its useless save feature will realize what a revelation this is.Įven more exciting is the rare Super Famicom iteration of Excitebike, released only via the Satellaview satellite download service. Imagine it, if you can: designing your best Excitebike track ever (made entirely of cooling strip M and awesome ramp H), then racing on it with another kid, then doing so again. Excitebike also allows players to save tracks. Being a Famicom Disk System game, and thus blessed with the rewritable memory that the original cartridge did not, Vs. Excite" mode after choosing the number of rounds and the track. Excitebike is precisely what it sounds like: a version of the classic sidescrolling motorcycle racer with multiplayer.