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Excitebike
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Name: Excitebike Manufacturer: Nintendo Year: 1984 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Settings: Excitebike Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
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Excitebike DescriptionA dirt bike game. The player navigates a bike over hills and around competitors.Nintendo, the Excitebike maker, released 91 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970. Other machines made by Nintendo during the time period Excitebike was produced include VS. Pinball & Golf, Vs. Golf, Balloon Fight, Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman, Tennis, Mario Bros., Mario Bros. (PlayChoice), Donkey Kong 3, and Donkey Kong Junior. Cabinet InformationThe game uses the standard generic Vs. artwork.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
ConversionAll Vs. games can be converted by swapping the ROMs, daughterboards, or other custom chips on the board. The Vs. Dualsystem architecture allows two games, serving two separate monitors, to be played from the same board.Game PlayThe game starts with a qualifying race, where the player is the only bike on the track. The player must navigate over hills, jumps, hay bails, and other obstacles in a set amount of time to qualify for the next race. The course scrolls right to left and the view is from a slightly elevated angle to allow for 3-D.The player moves up and down left to right on the track with the joystick. Moving the stick left is like pulling up on the handlebars, producing a wheelie. Moving the stick right or left in the air will change the attitude of the bike, controlling what angle it will be at during landing. Ideally, this should match the angle of the ground during landing. Button B controls turbo. The engine will overheat if this is kept on too long. At this time, the player should use normal acceleration with button A. There are arrows on the track that will cool off the engine when the player runs over them. If the player qualifies, the next race will be the same track with competitors. If the player places in the top five, the next race will be a qualifier on another track and so on. Landing wrong, too big of a wheelie, running over a hay bail while not in a wheelie, or colliding with a competitor will cause a crash. There is no limit to the number of crashes, but it costs time. Overheating the engine will also just cost time. The game is over when the player fails to qualify. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Excitebike CensusThere are 7,846 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 6,529 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 103,956 machines (5,043 unique titles).Common - There are 45 known instances of this machine owned by Excitebike collectors who are active members. Of these, 14 of them are original dedicated machines, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 30 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Excitebike circuit board for sale. Wanted - There are 6 active VAPS members currently looking for Excitebike. This game ranks a 32 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 12 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TriviaThe controls of Vs. System games allow for two players on a Unisystem and four on a Dualsystem. Unfortunately, Nintendo chose not to make use of this on Excitebike since only one player may play at a time.
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