Excitebike

Excitebike
Excitebike
	North American NES box art
Developer	Nintendo R&D4
Publishers	Nintendo; PC-88, X1; Hudson Soft;
Director	Shigeru Miyamoto
Producer	Shigeru Miyamoto
Designer	Shigeru Miyamoto
Programmer	Toshihiko Nakago
Composers	Akito Nakatsuka; Soyo Oka (FDS)
Series	Excite
Platform	Nintendo Entertainment System Arcade, PC-88, X1, PC-8001mkIISR, MZ-2500, Famicom Disk System, Nintendo e-Reader, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 3DS;
Release	November 30, 1984 NES JP: November 30, 1984; NA: October 18, 1985; EU: September 1, 1986; Arcade JP: December 1984; NA: March 1985; PC-8801 JP: October 1985; X1 JP: 1985; Famicom Disk System JP: December 9, 1988; e-Reader NA: September 16, 2002; Game Boy Advance JP: February 14, 2004; NA: June 7, 2004; EU: July 9, 2004; Nintendo 3DS WW: June 6, 2011; ;
Genre	Racing
Modes	Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system	Nintendo VS. System, PlayChoice-10

Excitebike is a 1984 racing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was ported to arcades for the Nintendo VS. System later that year and Famicom Disk System in 1988. In North America, it became one of the best-selling games on the console. It is the first game in the Excite series.

Designed and directed by Shigeru Miyamoto, the smooth side-scrolling game engine his team developed for Excitebike was later used to develop Super Mario Bros. (1985), which had the effect of Mario smoothly accelerating from a walk to a run, rather than move at a constant speed.

Excitebike was a critical and commercial success. It spawned several sequels and has been re-released multiple times onto other Nintendo platforms, such the Wii and Wii U Virtual Console, and the Nintendo Classics service.