Line #1 VideoGame/MachRider


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2	[[caption-width-right:275:YOU ARE MACH RIDER !!]]
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4	''Mach Rider'' is a 1985 futuristic driving launch game for the Nintendo Entertainment system (NES) created by Nintendo. It was first released on October 18, 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America, as one of the 18 initial launch games. A month later, on November 21, 1985, the title was released in Japan. On March 15, 1987 it was released in Europe and Australia. The Famicom version can use the Family BASIC Data Recorder to save custom tracks. Although the feature to save your custom tracks was only available in the Famicom version in the original releases, all versions of the Virtual Console release can save custom tracks.
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6	''Mach Rider'' takes place in the year 2112, and planet Earth has been invaded by evil forces driving vehicles known as Quadrunners. The player controls Mach Rider, who travels from sector to sector on a motorcycle, searching for survivors and destroying the enemies in his path.
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8	It was released on the Virtual Console for the Wii (in 2007), Nintendo 3DS (in 2013) and Wii U (in 2014).
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11	!!''Mach Rider'' contains examples of:
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13	* AlienInvasion: The main plot.
14	* AmbiguousGender: The packaging and manual do not state whether Mach Rider is male or female; although the character's ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'' trophy suggests male, other sources actually suggest female (see SamusIsAGirl below).
15	* BadassBiker: The eponymous Mach Rider.
16	* CoolBike: The combat motorcycle is equipped with a specially mounted machine gun (called the "Power Blaster") and can repair itself immediately after exploding. It definitely counts.
17	* CriticalExistenceFailure: Subverted in that Mach Rider can pull themselves back together.
18	* DeathCourse: Many of the later levels.
19	* EndlessGame: Although the game says it has 10 stages, the story clips loop after you beat the 10th one. You still get ten more choices of different maps to race on, making for 20 stages before the game ''truly'' loops.
20	* ExcusePlot: The invasion plot never really amounts to anything. As above, the [[EndlessGame tracks loop forever]], and Mach Rider never defeats the Quadrunners for good.
21	* {{Expy}}: A masked warrior on a motorcycle? [[Franchise/KamenRider Sounds familiar.]]
22	* Every10000Points: You get an extra life every 20000 points.
23	* FakeDifficulty: The oil and water puddles and ice and rocks and barrels in the early levels, and the Mooks who drop them right in front of you.
24	* InterfaceScrew: The...unconventional... controls for the LevelEditor.
25	* LevelEditor: A track creator which can only be saved in the Famicom version with the Family BASIC Data Recorder, along with the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS and UsefulNotes/WiiU Virtual Console versions, a flaw shared with ''VideoGame/{{Excitebike}}'', and ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew'', and any other games that used the Data Recorder
26	* MarathonLevel: Many of the later endurance stages, which can take 7 minutes, ''if'' you don't mess up.
27	* MooksButNoBosses: The only enemies are the Quadrunners, but no bosses.
28	* NintendoHard: It ''is'' an NES launch game, and certainly showed you what to expect of later NES games.
29	* OneHitPointWonder: If Mach Rider runs into '''anything''', they lose a life, although they can bump into Quadrunners by their side to try and knock them into hazards.
30	* SamusIsAGirl: ''Maybe''. There have been at least three separate official sources that suggest Mach Rider's womanhood which, if true, means they predate [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] as Nintendo's first female protagonist:
31	** The arcade VS. System version, ''VS. Mach Rider'', opens with a picture of Mach Rider and his motorcycle. Playing through the levels will eventually unlock [[https://i.imgur.com/tr2Qbca.jpg a picture of a woman with a knife taking Mach Rider's place.]] Whether the woman is intended to be Mach Rider or one of the survivors they helped is unknown.
32	** [[https://twitter.com/katewillaert/status/1331655805284782080 This officially-licensed pullout poster from the Japanese magazine Hi-Score Media Work,]] which features a similar woman in a red jumpsuit posing with the Mach Rider title and bike in the background, complete with "M RIDER" emblazoned in her belt buckle and what looks like the same knife in a sheath.
33	** In ''VideoGame/CaptainRainbow'', there is a DummiedOut, [[https://www.models-resource.com/wii/captainrainbow/model/31836/ fully-animated model of an outwardly female depiction of Mach Rider.]]
34	* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Some of the levels are covered in ice, causing you to slide around like a maniac!
35	* TimedMission: The endurance and solo modes, where the objective is to ride a certain distance before time runs out.
36	* VehicularCombat: The actual goal is just to cross the finish line in each stage, but you can shoot the Quadrunners or bump into them from the side to run them off the road or into obstacles.
37	* VideoGameLives: You get three at the beginning of the fighting course (the main story mode).

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