Not only does this knock out your chances of winning, but it's also rather boring. Sure, bypassing them all is cool if you can pull it off, but any slight mistake will slow your progress to a crawl.
Suppose, for instance, that there's a lot of triangle-shaped hills all in a row (like in track 4). Yeah, there's lots of obstacles and such, but you have to wonder what the optimal number of obstacles are. But that's why there are better games out there.Īs for the tracks themselves, they're all right. It's a first generation NES game we shouldn't expect anymore. So in reality, you're down to racing two tracks for a challenge. Thus, in the end, only the fourth and fifth tracks provide any sort of challenge (and are really the only ones that are interesting anyways). See, getting "first place" (your rank depends entirely on your finishing time) on the first and second tracks is pathetically simple, and almost as easy on the third. So in the end, you're simply racing against the clock. So you're not really racing against anyone it just means there's a few more obstacles on the screen. When one either gets left behind the back of the screen or races ahead to the front, it merely reappears on the opposite side. It just means there's three other racers on the screen. You can see how well you stock up against the computer! Except, not really. But the second one has you racing against competitors. But wait! There's two modes! See, the first mode lets you race alone, merely trying to beat a given time. So, if you want to, you can see the entire game within 10 minutes. And each race should take around 2 minutes or less. Step on the accelerator for too long, and your engine will die out, once again knocking you out of the race for a few seconds.
Several precious seconds are wasted as you slowly make your way to your bike and get back into the race. Land wrong, run into another biker, or smack an obstacle and you crash. You must navigate around obstacles such as oil slicks and barriers while hitting ramps and jumps. The track is nothing more than a straight strip across the bottom of the screen, four lanes wide. The premise is simple - race your motorbike to victory. It's still quite fun in moderation, but too simple and unbalanced to really be worth it. Because looking at this game now, it is distinctly less than impressive. And if that's the case, then I'm glad we moved beyond that stage. It was fun vrooming around, and seemed a tribute to what makes old-skool games so much better than today's stuff.
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