Recall any vintage MC arcade games?

[MuseumMadam]

Newbie poster here. Anyone help me recall any motorbike arcade games that dominated your misspent youth? I mean late 70s and 80s vintage stuff that you would've spent your last 10c on at the local chippie.....

I'm a bit young to remember....and as the curator of an upcoming exhibition that will celebrate the art and science of competition and race bikes (due to open November08 at Te Manawa Museum in Palmy North) - I wanna track down some vintage arcade racing experiences for visitors to try alongside the modern PS and XBox stuff....

[McJim]

Road rash is the only one that springs to mind of that era....it mught even be newer than that.

[scracha]

Road rash is the only one that springs to mind of that era....it mught even be newer than that.

Super hang on

[bull]

Try these:

1983 Motorace USA
1984 Excite Bike
1984 Kickstart Wheelie King
1984 Kick Rider
1984 Shot Rider
1985 Hang On Jnr
1987 Super Hang On
1988 Rally Bike
1989 World Grand Prix
1990 Riding Hero
1991 Limited Edition Hang On
1992 Stadium Cross

[Big Dave]

I'm not sure whether that is impressive or sad bully. :niceone:

[fridayflash]

i thought youd say 'tron lightcycle' dave?
my input would be 'zippy racer' hehe

[megageoff76]

A fav of mine is Thundercade.

Its a vertical shooter on a bike where you obtain sidecar weapons as power ups, and destroy tanks and choppers on your way to taking down a nuclear powerstation.

[MuseumMadam]

Cheers guys! Just been having fun playing a version of Zippy Race I found at
http://www.nintendo8.com/game/127/zippy_race/

[bull]

I'm not sure whether that is impressive or sad bully. :niceone:

Yeah thats a good point Dave, on a good note these are just a few of the 5000 odd games on my Kids MAME (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME) cabinet down in the playroom.

Was worried my 3 boys would miss out on the classics like defender and pac-man and be stuck with playstation and xbox so i spent one xmas building it for them. Bloody good fun for adults too.

[Drum]

Oh the pocket money I poured into zippy racer!

[Big Dave]

i thought youd say 'tron lightcycle' dave?
my input would be 'zippy racer' hehe

Well spotted!

But I was thinking about back before then - the first Nintendo console had a moto-x jumping game. With like, 10x10 pixel graphics.

[Boob Johnson]

Trying to think of the bike racing game on Commodore 64 we used to play???

I had a game called "wheelie" which was on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum which was back in the early 80's.

If you are wanting a few games then a good (modern) one is Manx TT, you actually sit on a bike which is quite cool :Punk:

[HungusMaximist]

Road rash all the way, I use to play that old skool game when I was 14 or something...

[HungusMaximist]

Road rash was soo good that I just had to add this. This was a intro movie to the game.

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When a player unlocked new levels, they were treated to videos like this.

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And when you win...

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When you lose... hahah..

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