THE HUB

OMG!!!

FEATURED GAME

FEATURED MEMBER

elementxstyle

elementxstyle

GP Design shop.

QUICK POLL

What's the next big game coming this year?

ASK THE PROS

THE GAMEPROS

FREE NEWSLETTERS

Sign up now to receive weekly or daily updates on your favorite games, stories, and more!



GBA | Driving | Classic NES Series: Excitebike

Boxart for Classic NES Series: Excitebike
Classic NES Series: Excitebike 6 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 4.0
  • SOUND: 3.0
  • CONTROL: 5.0
  • FUN FACTOR 4.0
  • AVG USER SCORE n/a
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 3.6

Review: Classic NES Series: Excitebike

Review by Jason Klingstedt | 08/05/2004 | 15:56:27 PM PST

There are things that rock and there are things that don't. Excitebike is among the former, at least according to Billy Squier.

How does one review a game that, as of this year, is a full 20 years old? Well, take a trip back to those heady times when Cindi Lauper?s ?Girls Just Want to Have Fun? plagued the airwaves and video arcades were the rage. Those arcades of old bore no resemblance to the DDR-atoriums of today. These were seedy places frequented by what today we would call ?at-risk youths,? then called ?hoods.? Blame S.E. Hinton and Matt Dillon. Within, you could expect the din of hundreds of cabinets competing to be heard over Billy Squier?s ?Stroke.? Those were the fires in which Excitebike was forged.

The game?s graphics are state of the art for that period; you can see the goggles on the rider. Control is straightforward; you push up, you go up, etc. Sound is par for the course in the era of ?turn the sound off and listen to Metallica with your headphones.?

Tons of people used to play this game in the arcade. It was cool then, and this version is the same, only smaller?and with a track designer.