Excitebike [Model HVC-EB]

Nintendo Famicom cart. published 40 years ago by Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Listed in MAME

Info

Excitebike © 1984 Nintendo.

Excitebike is a dirt bike game. You're the red color rider in this frantic motocross race, elusive your opponents in the track, accelerated as much as possible and care the not overheat the motor, and jumping over hills, obstacles like jumps, hay bails and mud sections to reach the goal, and qualify for the next race to championship supremacy !

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TECHNICAL

Game ID: HVC-EB

TRIVIA

Excitebike was released on November 30, 1984 in Japan at a retail price of 5500 Yen.

Export releases:
[US] "Excitebike [Model NES-EB-USA]"

Nintendo ran out of Excitebike boards when marketing to the U.S. market in the mid-1980s. So they opened up their Famicom boards, stuck them into U.S. cartridges, attached a NES-Joint-1 and marketed them to the U.S.

The main character of Excitebike (as well as his pallet-swapped rivals) appear as assist trophy characters in Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii.

Excitebike's gameplay was parodied in a sketch on the television show 'Robot Chicken'.

An Excitebike visualizer was included in the Nintendo DSi and 3DS that is used while playing music from your SD card on Nintendo DSi Sound or Nintendo 3DS Sound.

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TIPS AND TRICKS

* Faster remount:
Rapidly tap A+B to get back on the bike faster.

SERIES

1. Excitebike [Model HVC-EB] (1984, NES)
2. Excitebike 64 (2000, Nintendo 64)
3. Excite Truck (2006, Wii)
4. Excitebots - Trick Racing (2009, Wii)
5. Excitebike - World Rally (2009, WiiWare)

STAFF

Designer: Shigeru Miyamoto

PORTS

CONSOLES:
Nintendo Famicom Disk (1988)
Nintendo Super Famicom (1997, Excitebike: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium 'Satellaview (BS-X)'): downloaded via satellite broadcasting station in Japan called St.Giga to a BS-X cartridge. Only in Japan.
Nintendo 64 (2000, "Excitebike 64" as an unlockable extra)
Nintendo GameCube (2001, "Animal Crossing" as an unlockable Bonus game)
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2002, "E- Readers" Series)
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2004, "Famicom Mini" Series)
Nintendo Wii (2007, "Virtual Console")
Nintendo 3DS (2011, eShop "3D Classics") A magnific re-mastered version, featuring 3D effects!

COMPUTERS:
NEC PC-8001mk2SR (1985)
NEC PC-8801/SR (1985)

OTHERS:
Arcade "Vs. Excitebike"

SOURCES

Game's ROM.