Excitebike (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Nintendo’s 1985 racing game for the NES, Excitebike. 0:00 Selection A, all five tracks 9:43 Selection B, all five tracks 20:58 Design mode Excitebike is one of my favorite games of the NES’s launch line-up, and judging by the number of releases the game (and eventually, series) has seen over the years, I’m guessing that holds a soft spot for a lot of 80s kids. (On that note, if you’d like to see some gameplay from the exotic Hudson Soft port for the Japanese PC88, check this out: ) Excitebike gives you five pre-made tracks to fly around on, and for such a simple game, the mechanics feel surprisingly deep. Once you’ve memorized the placement of traps and the turbo refills, there’s still the matter of navigating the tracks, and this is the real substance of the game. Every time you hit a ramp, you go flying through the air. Once in the air, you can hold left to raise your front wheel and fly higher at the cost of speed, or you can push right to drop the front