Software:Bike Daisuki! Hashiriya Kon – Rider's Spirits
| Bike Daisuki! Hashiriya Kon – Rider's Spirits | |
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| Developer(s) | Genki |
| Publisher(s) | Masaya |
| Platform(s) | Super Famicom |
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| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Bike Daisuki! Hashiriya Kon - Rider's Spirits (バイク大好き！走り屋魂, lit. "I Love Bikes! Race Ya Soul")[1] is a 1994 video game for the Super Famicom. It is a racing game that allows players to race on motorcycles.
Gameplay
The bottom of the screen can serve two purposes in the game. In single-player mode, it can show the map race or it can show a simulated rearview mirror showing action behind the player. Like a real bike, it shows two rear-view mirrors.[2]
There are eight characters with four types of characters. Each of the four character types has its attributes for speed, handling, acceleration.[2]
Tracks in the game include various attributes such as ice, dirt, asphalt, and cobble-stone.[2]
"Chicken Race" is a mode in the game where the player goes down a ramp and must stop as close to the edge without going over. Going over results in wrecking the motorbike.[2]
It is possible to play in two or four player mode.[3]
There are items when going through a "pit-stop" on the track and the racing itself is complex, with drifts and wheelies. The player can choose from eight characters of various appearances and has a fuel gauge to watch while playing the game. Two views are present; a first-person view through the motorcycle rear-view mirrors and a second view using a more conventional third-person view. Other than the number of laps and the lap time, all other information is in Japanese.
Development
The game uses the DSP-1 chip, which is the same chip used by Super Mario Kart.[3][4] The DSP chip provides fast support for the floating point and trigonometric calculations needed by 3D math algorithms.[5]
Release
The game was released on September 30, 1994 in Japan for the Super Famicom, and was published by Masaya.[6] The game was never released outside of Japan, but in 2019 it was translated into English.[7]
Reception
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Previews and reviews for the game noted the resemblance between Rider's Spirits and Super Mario Kart.[10][3] Mega Fun went so far as to call the game a "Mario Kart Clone".[8] EGM said it wasn't a Mario Kart sequel, but it "may as well be".[2] Both EGM and Super Console noted that aside from using motorcycles the games are very similar.[2][3]
Upon release, four reviews for Famitsu gave the game a score of 24/40.[6]
Video Games 74%[4]
Mega Fun 89%[8]
CVG gave it a score of 82 out of 100.[9]
See also
- Hashiriya
References
- ↑ "Japanese title". Super Famicom. http://www.super-famicom.jp/data/ha/ha_0016.html. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 EGM staff writers (August 1994). "International Outlook: Rider's Spirits". Electronic Gaming Monthly 7 (8): 74.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Super Console staff writers (October 1993). "Super Console News Network" (in IT). Super Console (Futura Publishing) (8): 17.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Reviews - Super Nintendo - Rider's Spirits". Video Games: 114. April 1995.
- ↑ Byuu. "SNES Coprocessors — The Future Has Arrived". http://byuu.org/articles/emulation/snes-coprocessors.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "バイク大好き！走り屋魂 [スーパーファミコン / ファミ通.com"]. http://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=5014.
- ↑ "Bike Daisuki! Hashiriya Tamashii - Rider's Spirits" (in en). https://www.romhacking.net/translations/4080/.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Noak, Philipp (December 1994). "Test: Super Nintendo - Rider's Spirits". Mega Fun.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 CVG staff writers (December 1994). "Review: Rider's Spirits" (in IT). Computer+Videogiochi (Gruppo Editoriale Jackson) (43): 124–125.
- ↑ Sega Power staff writers (January 1995). "News: Rider's Spirits". Sega Power (Future Publishings) (62): 7.
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