The further into the game you go, the more this is amplified and you’ll find that it’s nigh impossible to win a race event on the first try, even through sheer luck. Right from the start, the AI is faster than you and rarely makes mistakes. Its most major issue is its difficulty curve. It just has some issues that hold it back. To be clear, MX Nitro is by no means a bad game. On paper, this should be the perfect game to suit my dirtbiking needs, but the reality isn’t quite that straightforward. Now, Saber Interactive’s MX Nitro arrives, fusing together the Trials series’ extreme tricks with the fun of Excitebike’s racing. It was as close to Kick Start as I was ever likely to see, albeit with some fantastical level design. From there on, I held onto a quiet love for games based on dirtbikes, with Motocross Madness on PC being a particular highlight.Īre you still with me? Well, once Trials HD arrived on Xbox 360, that old love of both dirt bike games and Kick Start hit me in the face harder than the Trials series’ infamous difficulty. Kick Start was a great little series where people would compete in Trials events, showcasing some incredible skills (especially impressive on the Junior version of the programme) and my love for that daft TV show is the reason why Excitebike initially appealed to me. Well, Kick Start and Excitebike were both about dirtbikes. You may at least remember Excitebike on NES, either via the retro scene that’s bigger than it has ever been, or through Nintendo’s Virtual Console or its recent NES Mini–assuming you were lucky enough to see one of those mythical creatures.

You’re probably too young to remember a daft TV programme from the 80s, and you’re probably wondering why you’re reading some idiot’s musings about a long forgotten piece of BBC history. Remember Kick Start? Of course you don’t.

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