{"id":134514,"date":"2023-08-30T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-65108"},"modified":"2023-08-30T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:00:00","slug":"review-excitebike-64-an-underrated-racer-that-deserves-to-ride-with-its-n64-stablemates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/30\/review-excitebike-64-an-underrated-racer-that-deserves-to-ride-with-its-n64-stablemates-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Excitebike 64 &#8211; An Underrated Racer That Deserves To Ride With Its N64 Stablemates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/743e777d8522e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/743e777d8522e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Hold onto your handlebars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This review originally went live in 2016, and we&#8217;re updating and republishing it to mark the game&#8217;s arrival on Switch as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/every-nintendo-switch-online-n64-game-ranked\">Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Of the sports games in the N64 era, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/excitebike_64\">Excitebike 64<\/a> feels left out of conversation more often than siblings such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/wave_race_64\">Wave Race 64<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/1080d_snowboarding\">1080\u00b0 Snowboarding<\/a>. Perhaps its release later in the console&#8217;s life cycle didn&#8217;t give it as much time to gain traction in people&#8217;s memories, or maybe it&#8217;s lost in the limelight of its inspiration, the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/excitebike\">Excitebike<\/a>. Whatever the reason, it doesn&#8217;t detract from the fact that Excitebike 64 is a rather smart motocross game.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/n64\/excitebike-64\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hold onto your handlebars. This review originally went live in 2016, and we&#8217;re updating and republishing it to mark the game&#8217;s arrival on Switch as part of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack. Of the sports games in the N64 era, Excitebike 64 feels left out of conversation more often than siblings such as Wave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}