Classic Game Room - EXCITEBIKE for NES review

Classic Game Room reviews EXCITEBIKE for Nintendo Entertainment System from 1985 (released in 1984 for the Famicom in Japan.) Excitebike is an awesome, fun and addictive side scrolling racing game for NES and Gameboy. The NES version has full color gameplay and has a rad level design system where you can create your own Excitebike race tracks. Excite Bike gameplay is fast and simple yet remarkably challenging. You have to master when to accelerate, tilt your bike and jump all the while dodging enemy riders who will knock you off your motorcycle. Dirt bike racing on the NES has never been so rad. This CGR review of Excitebike for NES has Nintendo Excitebike gameplay showing Excitebike game play from the videogame cartridge for NES.

[@Caridani23]

I loved this game back then and still do. I can't wait to have a copy of this on NES

[@TheBrainScratcher]

the sensation when you finally remember after 20 years that you actually played a certain game that you had forgotten..

[@brit123brat]

Oh man... I played this game so much while in daycare. I remember beating the entire game (20 tracks forward and then backward), getting the best times on all of them, and making all the guys jealous. I have to get this game now!

[@khunii2188]

This was my favourite game. I loved to play it. I especially loved to make my bikes rear wheel collide with the other racers front wheel and make them fall. LOL. Really brings back memories. :-)

[@devinisdead4061]

Fuggin loved that game.

[@SaviolaSwedish]

I remember the online multiplayer was AWESOME !!!

[@maxyliano]

Wait, I've never been able to find an Excitebike cartridge or rom or even a video of the GB version...

[@dbpooper7512]

4:56 these were state of the art physics at the time. Not unrealistic at all, reality just worked differently back then.

[@matrixandraia]

I used to play this in the early 90s. The track editor was my favorite thing to mess with. Good memories. =)

[@thepixellated]

Oh god.. I LOVED this game when I was a kid.

[@SexSlaveGoneBad]

You my friend make most awesome video game reviews!

[@card969]

This along with paperboy were my fav nes games.

[@gabbogabbo]

This brings back memories for sure!

[@AngerProduction]

hahaha i remember playing this game... good old days :P

[@HubbDeezy]

Man, brings back the memories. To think my favorite stage was three because of the cool looking track

[@Trusteft]

A childhood friend of mine had this game for his Amstrad 464. I used to love it. There was also a slightly similar game only with a quad bike, but no idea the name of that one.

[@SylveonTrapito]

ExciteBike! One of the best games ever made and one of the first one y played on a Nintendo, I had my atari 2600 and when I played this one was like "Oh mi Gosh!" Super fun!

[@EGarrett01]

Yes, the true joy of Excitebike was making torture courses. My favorite thing to do was just place a bunch of "R's" (I believe that's it, the giant mountainous obstacle) one after the other...after the other...after the other...forever. And also for fun you could place a whole bunch of arrows leading up to an H.

[@justinroller6165]

Still have it!

[@DkViking1]

Justin Roller: Never let go of it! It’s a keeper!

[@mink03]

I remember playing this and not creating a track... but then playing the non "created track" .. it just went on FOREVER!!!! had no idea this was on the gameboy back in the day.. i should seek that out

[@dFRmRVBn]

man it reminds me of my childhood awesome game

[@goranmitic7500]

took me a decade and a half to remember name of this awesome game.

[@LordOfJoy]

Sorry but Excitebike was never on Game Boy. The NES version was ported to the Game Boy Advance but that's it.

[@delmancefrancis2542]

true

[@m1ll1m15]

Right!? I was racking my brain like mad trying to remember it ever being on GameBoy. There no way!

[@hikaruk.981]

He's likely thinking of Motocross Maniacs.

[@fuzzix]

The track design and all that reminds me of Kikstart 2 on the C64 and Speccy. It's possible Excitebike "inspired" this game, though it did have 2 player split screen and a more hilarious rider-comes-off-the-bike animation (flipping through the air)

[@KSiggaardA]

Very much like Joe Danger for PSN. Nice game.. Remember playing exitebike at my friends house, back in the days :)

[@eurohim]

When I played that game when I was...like 6, I was all about the design mode.

[@dreamcastliveson]

You should have re-created the course from battletoads. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Just kidding, love the vids man. Keep 'em coming. Oh yeah, and definitely more beer. May I suggest some dunkelweiss with your next wolfenstein review?

[@richardminor1019]

already this looks and I bet is better then half the games out today!

[@GamingMansion]

used to paly this on pegasus, great game

[@DestroyerTriple]

IDK its weird, im 14. And my dad grew up with these games, and the irony is that, I am the one that reminds him of these games from his childhood. I know or at least remember more NES games than he does.

[@BIRDANGAL]

OMG I HAVE THAT GAME AND LOVE IT AND STILL PLAY IT

[@demonchacer]

i was wondering when mark was gonna review this game. i would play this game for hours trying to memorize the tracks. then i would make my own tracks and race those.

[@alhansen75]

I'm not sure if the Nintendo version actually had it, but the arcade version had "Excitebike" mode which never overheated. The bike would switch to Black/Yellow/Red colors after wrecking 7 dudes without crashing.... He forgot to mention that. -Cheers!

[@sonicmario64]

Whoa, there was an "Excitebike" game on the Game Boy?? :o

[@JunyPai]

OMG EXCITEBIKE! i remember playing this in vietnam xD

[@KetwunsGamingPad]

@rchrdcrg That game was also a lot of fun and very addictive. I loved the music in that game, which played during tracks as well. It was also much more creative in design. You could say it was the better game!

[@SniperWill]

excitebike 64 my first game i ever had good times good times :)

[@CrispyToast]

Let's call that the Karnage Kourse.

[@Randolph_]

1:29 i have never seen a 3rd placer celebrate much more than the 2nd and 1st placers.

[@palvalao]

OMG i loved his game and still do its awesome but i forgot it but not anymore im gonna buy it :D

[@SvenOkonomi]

The countless weekends I spent playing this. :P

[@MrMudbill]

How many NES games got that same Intro theme? I hear it all over, like on my 99 NES games cartridge for GBA. I'm sure at least 5 of the games got the same theme. I also think I got this game there, so maybe I'll try it out now... Maybe...

[@RaShadowYT]

you cant imagine how much i enjoyed this video... tho ^^ so much i had to go google to find a ROM and a nes emulator for this game.

[@NintendoWizard24]

first coment i just wanted 2 say im such a big fan and i thank my mom and dad for making me and my nintendo and super nintendo for letting me play it and the nintendo 64 and my hands for not falling of and letting me play games and my brain to not be dumb and let me understand games and........and.......0_o thats it realy luv ur videos keep them coming

[@HowPettyful]

I still have this :D

[@AnimatedTdot]

LOVED THAT GAME!!

[@schowd31]

Really like the 3d edition for 3DS, same with Kid Icarus NES for 3DS. Used to have the Ecard reader version among other nes games in card form.

[@IstvanNagy]

dis game wos da bomb remins me of tha good ol dayz

[@jupreindeer]

@BatoGamer Yes. The world will know. It was because, back in those days, Nintendo was all so very optimisting about releasing this thing called...a disc drive...to America. This would have meant that games could -save- and -load- files from -programmable series- carts, like Excite Bike. It would also mean that one could buy a disc at a major game store, stick it into a store side machine and buy pure software games at low, low prices! (What a concept. Why didn't that...oh, yea. Internet!)

[@callmemarc]

I didn't even know there was a Gameboy version. Are you going to review it?

[@thevideogamenerd100]

this game was awesome on the NES

[@OrdoMallius]

First two game I had is this game and battletoads.

[@loneshewolf74]

1:30 - "YEAH! I'm #3, I'm #3!"

[@MrSandzakRadikaL]

Addictive...you can say that again, im still playing this challenging game, its awesome !!! Greetings from Bosnia Mike.

[@sk8eroz]

ive played this when i waz 6 ... memories

[@hattorihanzoxx]

who else loves how mark said exItebike!!!!

[@Boa796]

ah the nostalgia i remeber when i first played this (and only played this) on a cheapo chinese 500 in 1 disket on chinese console, i cant even remeber what its called

[@igotyou62darthvat]

excite bike.one of the best fucking games i played as a kid

[@ARaider510]

@uofm97 you do know there were game boy 1, game boy color, and game boy advanced before advanced sp came out right?

[@RyanKenny59]

I've never played this game or seen actual game play (On TV not KZbin) I've seen a parody of it (Robot Chicken), But it looks like a fun game, I'm even impressed that it has a level design for an NES Game. I may get it on the Virtual Console if I have the points

[@yeenar]

you can do a wheelie and ride over those little hurdles.

[@elihuerta3383]

excite bike was like tony hawk back in the day!

[@kaine180]

this got me into gaming

[@Christofferelias]

Nice:D love your videos! :D

[@Coasterstyla98]

Memories, i was play this with 6 Years ;)(sry for my english)

[@nanquan491]

Hey this was a really fun game!

[@TenshiCat]

I think you'll like the WiiWare game Excitebike: World Rally! =3

[@sk205cti]

i love this game.

[@5thBearCav]

@WikiWaki91 It's not on SNES, it's on NES. But they totally should have made Super Excitebike for the SNES. That would have been awesome.

[@saulocpp]

Does anyone remember a side scrolling shooter for NES, it was a bike with guns, you could pick up some more weapons along the way. I played it long time ago and don't remember its name.

[@WilfredoPorkchopOG]

at least on virtual console, you can save the tracks now =)

[@SakuraAvalon]

@DOSDestroyer (Stares at Mortal Kombat) Yup.

[@TANKTREAD]

I enjoy your reviews, I was wondering if you can do the 3D Classic of EXCITEBIKE for the 3DS. Wondering what version you enjoy more.

[@The_Live_Shows-Guru]

or excitebike 64

[@daveygravey123456]

@JefferyWylde could you not do flips in this game ages since i played it>?

[@bonggzilla]

bashing the buttons like a maniac gets you faster on the bike again after a crash !!!

[@spspear81]

you should try the 64 excitebike.. more awesome too. Plus there';s the wii's exticetruck and excitebots.

[@hellboymaine]

my parents owned a store that rented nes games and we had an arcade. I always had this game which pissed off my friends who wanted to rent it.

[@EasyAl88]

One of my favorite games ever! Holy nostalgia F*CK!!

[@SylveonTrapito]

Who needs Assasins Creed of GTA iV when you have Excitebike?

[@VonSeux]

@eklipsegirl spot the differences and improvements from the most recent entry in the series

[@rushilshah9048]

This game play store available?

[@communistrecords]

@syxx573 Tears of nostalgia flooded their eyes making it impossible for them to type correctly.

[@Chipsonfire]

This is Trials HD's great grand-daddy

[@seek7686]

Yo I love this game.. question I never ask myself playing this back in the day but... why are there so many motorcycles lol

[@TriumphantLoser]

I loved how you could run over other racers.

[@tonk82]

Game Boy version? O.o I only know the NES port for the NES classics series, for the game boy advance.

[@Snorlink]

I got it on the 3DS!

[@Weider63]

i love this game ! much better than COD series .

[@JazzemYT]

Might Mark be confusing Motorcross Maniacs on Game Boy as an Excite Bike game?

[@TR4VI5]

:10 did you made that song?

[@MegaDman321]

@rchrdcrg true but gba had exite bike as ereader cards

[@WeirdFishStick]

I have this game.

[@Skriak]

@Qwertyguy86 I obviously know they're famous and popular, but I meant that they seem to be entirely different games from opposing genres. It'd be like me recommending somebody to play Burnout because they like CoD. See what I mean? It just struck me as a strange comment, that's all.

[@maxyliano]

I still can't find the game boy version!!! can anyone show it to me somehow? (review, video, whatever)

[@CarmenOfSpades]

I don't recall a Gameboy version....

[@ShoreyJr]

There were tons of multicarts back in the day, they are abundant everywhere.

[@xChaotic81x]

this game was such a pain in the ass............but it was a fun pain in the ass

[@DkViking1]

You play WAY too nicely against the other racers. You must cut in front of them, make them hit your rear wheel - and then enjoy watching them crash! 😈😃

[@Tr3vor42532]

Too bad the tape recorder didnt come out in the U.S. Its only in japan. The save doesnt work without it. Same with mach rider.

[@MegaBlackk1d]

i have this game on my computer and i play with my ps3 controller, or xbox 360 controller