On the gameplay front, Excitebike plays the same as it always has. New storm clouds make mud-covered Track 4 more ominous. But sliding it up starts easing in the stereoscopic "wow" factor, while giving you a glimpse at what's been in the background of all these many Excitebike races over the past 25 years - you see more of the crowd gathered in the seats at the edge of the racetrack, and then, beyond them, an all-new cloud-filled backdrop of sky. Leaving the slider pushed all the way down to the off position gives you a flat, traditional 2D Excitebike view (in new widescreen) that already looks great.
Excitebike accomplishes that same goal, but does more at the same time. No other 3DS game has taken that approach so far, as most every other game uses that simple slider to just adjust the "intensity" of the 3D effect. The game has been given an expanded, widescreen ratio to fill the 3DS' upper display and the system's 3D slider inventively bends the camera angle of the action to your desired degree of depth. The development team at Arika rebuilt every aspect of the graphics from scratch, rather than just take the NES pixel art as-is. The 3D visuals are the main selling point, and they work wonderfully well.
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Every part of its package has been given extra polish, making it impressive to the point that Nintendo could have launched it without the month of free access and still seen it post great download numbers. But 3D Classics: Excitebike edges out even that closest competitor because this new edition has clearly been crafted with quality in mind. The GBA re-release squished the display area, the eReader cards were a pain to scan through that gimmicky peripheral one at a time and the WiiWare remake - well, OK, the WiiWare remake was alright. The Excitebike 64 and Animal Crossing unlockables were OK, but you had to buy $50 console games and put in the work meeting their access conditions before you could even get to them.
The NES version wouldn't let you save your created tracks, because it lost that functionality when being ported to America's NES from the Japansese original. And what Retro Game Bros.Looking back across them all, none of Excitebike's earlier editions has really been that great. I’m not sure how long I stood there blinking but when the shell shock wore off I pulled a few games off the shelf. I was told they would be more than happy to take a cartridge out of a complete game and sell me just the box and manual. But as I was browsing and chatting at Retro Games Bros. I thought I’d be stuck re-buying games just to get a box. Finding just a box for sale is really hard to do. I already have most of the NES titles I want, but they are loose cartridges (some with their manual).
This past weekend I now have my first five CIB NES games.Īnd thanks to Retro Game Bros. So, I’ve jump down yet another rabbit hole.Īs I’ve been down sizing my Super Nintendo and NES collection the idea has started to grown in my head that I’d like to get the games I really want in my collection ‘complete in box’ (CIB).
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