Shooters – Duck Hunt, Hogan’s Alley, Wild Gunman, Gumshoe, Freedom Force.Sports – Baseball, Tennis, 10-Yard Fight, Golf, Soccer, Volleyball, Slalom, RBI Baseball.Even a brief sample shows how versatile the system was: Over the years, the system housed games of all types, many licensed from other companies like Atari and Konami. This four-player configuration allowed complete doubles matches on Tennis, but it also permitted two separate games to be played at once. DualSystem” housed two separate monitors, placed at an angle to each other with two control sets on each. games were available in the standard upright cabinet (with two sets of controls for true one-on-one “vs.” play), but the more eye-catching “VS. In 1984 alone, 10 games were produced for the system, including player favourites like Duck Hunt (a light gun shooting game complete with a hunting dog companion) and Nintendo’s version of Baseball. system during its seven-year lifespan, each one perfect for one-on-one (or even two-on-two) contests.Īlmost since the beginning, arcade games had been offered in “conversion kits” allowing arcade owners to use older machines for newer games, but the VS.
system – a series of arcade games designed to bring out the competitive nature of gaming fans. Virtual Console (バーチャルコンソール, Bācharu Konsōru, also abbreviated as VC, is a line of downloadable video games for Nintendo’s Wii and Wii U home video game consoles and the Nintendo 3DS family handheld game console.Stuck in the mire of the 1984 video game market crash, Nintendo knew it needed a hook to draw gamers back into the arcades. Excitebike was released in North America for the first time on the Virtual Console. “That is to say, as the video and screenshots below show, the presentation is impressive and must have been a real treat at the time.” The music is unreal as well, I was so excited to finish a race just to hear the victory fanfare! Other notable qualities include the aforementioned slick animations and relatively realistic graphics. This mode was my personal favorite of the two as I much preferred the carnage featured within. All the hit-boxes are fair and the mode never suffers any performance issues. You can get knocked off your bike and, in turn, knock other people off their bikes in an all-out biking battle. This is excusable though as the mode is fun nevertheless. The “race” is a facade though as you don’t win through finishing first but through beating a set time. Type B pegs your biker against several other opponents in a chaotic fight for the finish. Excitebike’ is a victim of subjectivity, and definitely not everyone’s cup of tea.
“It controls extremely tightly and looks marvelous for the time not only in its graphics but in its animations too.” A Dream Debut Excitebike laid the foundations for future endeavors in this field. From hundreds, if not thousands, of flash games to the incredible Trials series, VS. It pioneered the 2D motorbike racing and stunt genre that we still do today.
Excitebike was an extremely successful title for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1984. ApA fan favorite amongst arcade goers, VS.