Moto Racer Demo

Moto Racer is a 1997 arcade motorcycle racing game that features both street and dirt bikes. It was one of the good ones to surface around that period offering quality fun and an intense experience.

Moto Racer’s time of glory has passed a long time ago, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good anymore. There is a good number of recent games that aim to recreate the look and sounds of old school racing games, so, instead of playing those, why not give the real thing a try.

Your biggest challenge will be to run the game. A relatively basic PC is needed for it to work but a way of fooling the game about the system it’s actually on should work. If you get passed this step, the rest is good ol fashioned fun.

It’s not worth elaborating on the fact that you shouldn't expect amazing graphics or impressive audio, even though the latter still surprises. What you can actually count on is the authentic arcade gameplay complete with announcer and sometimes silly collision mechanics.

In Moto Racer, you could opt for both solo and LAN play, and that was a good thing, it still is. After all, why not enjoy this with a friend. It features three face modes, Practice, Single Race, Grand Prix, and it allows you to race dirt bikes as well as street bikes on a decent number of diverse tracks.

Whenever you’re ready to race, you just need to pick a track type, opt for one of the several bikes and then just give it your best. The latter means that you will mess up a lot if you’ve never played this one or similar titles from that time. Keys are not hard to master but bike control takes a while to get used to, and practice makes all the difference between breaking records and almost finishing third.

On a closing note, Moto Racer is mainly a nostalgia fueled game. Remembering the old days is probably the only reason most people still play it. The other part either doesn’t have anything better to do or simply get it that back then, games were built differently.