""Excitebike (エキサイトバイク, Ekisaitobaiku) is a motocross racing video game franchise made by Nintendo. It first debuted as a game for the Famicom in Japan in 1984 for a price of 5000 yen...

Gameplay

Whether the player chooses to race solo or against computer-assisted riders, he/she races against a certain time limit. The goal is to qualify for the Excitebike (the championship) race by coming in at third place or above in the challenge race (preliminary race). The times to beat are located on the stadium walls (for first place) and in the lower left corner (for third place). In any race, the best time is 8 seconds ahead of third place. When the player places first, then they get a message: "It's a new record!" Additional points are earned by beating the previously-set record time.

The player controls the position of the red motorcycle with the Y-axis of the directional pad, and controls acceleration with the A and B buttons. Using B causes greater acceleration, but also increases the motorcycle's temperature shown as a bar at the bottom of the screen. If the temperature exceeds safe limits (the bar becomes full), the player will be immobilized for several seconds while the bike cools down. Driving over an arrow will immediately reduce the bike's temperature.

The pitch of the motorcycle can be modified with the X-axis of the directional pad, left raises the front, while right lowers the front. In the air, this rotates the bike, but can also be used to create wheelies on the ground. The up and down arrows on turn the hand bar left and right, respectively when the bike is on the ground.

At the start of the game, the player can choose one of five tracks he/she wants to race in.""

Source: Wikipedia, "Excitebike," available under the CC-BY-SA License.

Vs. Excitebike (Arcade): Design option gone, some tracks were shortened and track obstacles rearranged. There is no track editor. The first race is a qualifier and has no CPU bikers as obstacles, they appear in the "race" mode.

Vs. Excitebike (Famicom): The game features a versus mode named "Vs. Excite". The options include the maximum number of rounds to play, the track, and the number of laps for said track. The music is completely different; none of the songs from the original game are present in this version. The "Original Excite" mode is based on the main mode of the arcade version, with minor differences such as a different color palette. Its rewritable disk format also allows the player to save created tracks.

• Unlock the original game in Nintendo 64 sequel Excitebike 64.
• Unlock the game (one of several bonus games included) on the GameCube game Animal Crossing.
• One of five E-card set game, titled Excitebike-e, for the e-Reader, a device for the Game Boy Advance.
• Released as part of the Game Boy Advance Classic NES Series.
• Added to the Wii Virtual Console the same day its spiritual successor, Excite Truck. Later released on the WiiU as well.
• The Nintendo DSi and 3DS includes an Excitebike visualizer that is used while playing music from an SD card on Nintendo DSi Sound or Nintendo 3DS Sound.
• A version of the game was released for NEC PC-8801, Sharp X1,