Episode 161 – Excitebike (1985)

This week in Your Parents Basement, we are revving up our engines, dodging obstacles, and creating impossible tracks we’ll never play our way through! From 1985, we’re playing Excitebike by Nintendo for the NES. (Or as they say in the UK, the NEZ!)

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TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 – Intro, which features the jaunty title theme from the game!
• 27:00 – Emails! Which movie would YOU like to see a first-person shooter version of?
• 33:00 – We can’t end the show without helping some people! It’s… Ask the Sweet Boys.
• 39:15 – Snifferoo, which features the jaunty title theme from next week’s game!

SHOW NOTES

– According to Price Charting, Excitebike is very affordable. The loose cart is only $6, and it is available as a digital game for pretty much all of the Nintendo systems. Oddly, the box and manual up the price to $31. They are probably in shorter supply now because nobody took care of them back in the day.