Let's Play: Vs. Excitebike (With Cheats)
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Welcome back to another Famicom/Famicom Disk System Walkthroughs with cheats episode section!
Today I play the original Japanese Excitebike: Vs. Excitebike!
Excitebike was enhanced in two different versions, both titled Vs. Excitebike.
The first version was released for arcades in 1984, some time after the Famicom release. The game was based around the VS. UniSystem unit. It is similar to its NES counterpart, though this version has the Design option gone and in the main game there are three difficulty levels (Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced), and there are seven tracks rather than five. The tracks mostly return from the original game with some rearrangement of track obstacles. In addition, there is no Selection A or B; each track is played the first time as a challenge race, and the second time as an Excitebike race. Whereas the challenge race has no CPU bikers as obstacles, they appear in the Excitebike race mode. The position qualify will rise to the 5th place, which means the player must clear the track in that position or higher to advance.
The second was released for the Famicom Disk System peripheral in 1988. While the graphics and core gameplay are still the same, the FDS version has several distinctive features that the NES and arcade versions lack:
The game features a versus mode known as "Vs. Excite", in which two players compete against each other. 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, and a theme is played during gameplay.
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.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitebike#Vs._Excitebike