Kick Rider

Description

A road-race game where the view is from above. You control a motorbike with opponents on motorcycles who jostle you with their legs, and the occasional car. Played against the clock with points for passing.

Kick Rider was produced by Universal in 1984.

Universal released 52 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1977. Universal was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Universal during the time period Kick Rider was produced include: Eggs, Mr. Do! Vs. Unicorns, Mr. Do!'s Castle, Go Go Coaster, Mr. Do! (Yankee DO!), Adventure Mr. Do!, La Cible, Do! Run Run, Nova 2001, and Jumping Jack

Specs

Name	Kick Rider
Developer	Universal (Japan)
Year	1984
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8300
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Racing
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Universal
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right) Buttons: 1 - Accelerate
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Play

The initial stages of the game are played with a view from above your motorbike, looking down onto the road. Other motorbikes line up with you for a "traffic light" start. Once under way, they jostle you with their legs, and you can jostle back by pressing the button and left or right. With no bikes by your side, you can gain a bit more speed. There are occasional constrictions on left and right, and central islands. There are no sharp corners! Occasionally a car appears in front of you leaving bombs in its wake. You crash if you hit a bomb, hit the car, or hit any area off the road. If you crash, you lose time. The game is played against the clock, with bonus points decreasing as you play. Towards the goal, the view switches to above and behind your motor-bike, looking further ahead than before towards a city in the distance. There are traffic cones to avoid if you can. After every three levels there is an intermission screen where a bonus is awarded for each vehicle you passed.

Kick Rider KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 1.28 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 1.00

Overall Like	1.00
Fun (Social)	1.00
Fun (Solo)	1.00
Collector Desire	0.00

Technical Rating: 1.50

Gameplay	2.00
Graphics	1.00
Originality	1.00
Sound/Music	2.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Kick Rider Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Scarce - There are 3 known instances of this machine owned by Kick Rider collectors who are active members. Of these, 3 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Kick Rider.

This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Technical

The game has been found on a PCB marked 8339A. It is a Mr. Do's Wild Ride board with the ROMs swapped. The EPROMs are marked K1-K10. The color PROM at location C9 was also changed.

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