Ever since the dawn of time of arcade gaming, we've been trying to bring arcade experiences back into the living room. All the way back, way back, Computer Space, Pong, all had solutions to bring these games back home. Well, one game in particular that I never played because I wasn't born yet was Stunt Cycle. And I came across a really cool at-home experience for Stunt Cycle when I was at Southern Fried Chicken Gaming Expo. Now, does this solution live up to the hype? The hype of you being able to, at home, jump buses like Evel Knievel, one of the best motorcycle stunt drivers in existence. And does it bring that experience back into your living room? I don't know. Maybe I wasted a bunch of money on some old junk, but maybe I didn't. And in this episode, we're going to find out. Okay, before we get started, let's talk a little bit about the arcade game. So this footage first off is from Delusionals Arcade, his YouTube channel. So if you don't know who he is, definitely go there and definitely check it out. Now this is footage he took from Richie Knuckles Arcade in 2019, where Richie is showing how to play Stunt Cycle. So basically the arcade version had a black and white monitor. It's just like the home version I'm going to show you, except the graphics are maybe a little bit better. and that overlay John Youssi, sort of those pipes you're driving through, those are actually just a bezel overlay, and the screen was black and white. It was a 19-inch screen. You could play one or two players, and it had, you know, handlebars. That's how you worked it, and the right one was your throttle. Now, the game was done in the style of Evel Knievel, that craze of the mid-1970s, so they're just capitalizing on that, like I said, in the introduction. Now on this one after you complete 27 buses that it It ends the game Now the at version you can go up to 32 buses I only got up to 20 so I gotta I gotta hone in my skills So there a little bit brief overview of the actual arcade game If you definitely see one of these you're gonna want to stop and play it but let's check out the home version and see how it stacks up. Okay so now that you learned a little bit about the arcade game what would you have got if you purchased this stunt cycle in 1977? This came out a year after the arcade game. So you're gonna get the console itself and you actually get four games included. So you do get Stunt Cycle, you get Motocross, Drag Race, and Enduro, and I'll show you how you access all those games. We're really going to focus on Stunt Cycle, and this did connect to a color TV. Unfortunately, I didn't have a CRT that I could get filming this correctly because of the refresh rates and the camera I'm using, but so I decided to do the LCD. Now, there's one thing you have to know before you turn this on. You still have to have it on channel three. I was like, why isn't this working? So when you go to turn it on, if you're not on channel three, it won't turn on but there you go and it defaults to um i can't remember which game this is i think enduro so basically you just hit stunt cycle and you'll see as i hit that it'll go to that game it's got a blue screen and you can see the game just like i told you you're trying to jump these buses and it starts with eight and then every time you complete it it's one more bus one more bus until you know it keeps going i think it goes up to i can't remember how many buses it goes up to in total but and this is the control unit like this is the actual console itself it's really good build quality like you'd be surprised you know this actually looks like they used real grips from like a a bicycle or you know something like that so it's got like a nice solid grip it has a speaker right here it does not connect to the tv it doesn't have it just has a video output and then you know it's got like sort of this metal badge here and then you got your buttons to turn it on you have a button for difficulty volume like i said it's got internal volume and then here are your four games you just press the button for the game you want to play So I just impressed at the overall design of this and the fact that they didn really skimp out Like the thing got a solid weight to it and it looks like they used I think there like a metal bar I don think there plastic to connect these two So it's pretty nice. So now that you saw exactly what this is and what you get, let's just play it for a little while and see. Does it live up to, you know, the excitement of the arcade game if you played it in, you know, 1976? Okay, so we're going to check out gameplay now. Now, the basic premise of how you play this game is you start off with eight buses, and you have to jump the eight buses. Now, every time, you have, I think, eight guys. After that, you just die, and that's it. And I think it goes all the way up to 32 buses. I haven't got that far yet, but it's pretty fun. Here, I'll show you. So, as you start, you just pull back on the throttle, and you have one stage first, and then you go to a second one, and then you really got to give it a little bit more throttle because you're trying to clear these eight buses. then you kind of let go that was good you're trying to land somewhere around here if you land too far over you fall and it it's surprisingly a super addicting game if you go too fast he'll pop a wheelie and he'll he won't land the so that was that was good i went a little far but i didn't i didn't go too far if you go too far he'll fall so now i'm up to 10 buses as it indicates right there and the zero means i haven't crashed yet so you kind of keep on playing until okay that was still pretty good if you let up on the throttle he kind of hovers in the air a little bit but it's basically this over and over and over again you just have to watch your speed because if you get too much speed you won't make it again you want to land like somewhere around here is the sweet spot i'm up to 12 buses and it just kind of keeps on going on like that but you know if you go too fast what'll happen is i'll crash off the screen and then it shows me as one one one, I just used one of my lives and like I said you have about eight of them. So it doesn seem like the most fun game but I telling you when you play it in real life it gets super addicting and the fact that the control is so sensitive like the throttle control is really good it makes it a super fun game See there I hit the top of the ramp So it I telling you if you have a chance to play this in real life which I never seen a stunt cycle other than I know Richie Knuckles has one at his arcade, which is what the footage was that we showed in the beginning of this video. I've never seen one. And I know there's an auction going up and banning, coming up and banning for the pinball museum, I think. And that one, actually, they have a stunt cycle. So anyways, it's an old game. It's 1977, 76 or 77. It's black and white screen. Anyway, so you got a little taste of stunt cycle. So what do I think about this? Honestly, if I bought this in 1977, I'd be pretty stoked because I'm having fun with it now and it's 2021. So it's really neat. It has three other games that we didn't even showcase. They're just different spins on Stunt Cycle. Like some of them you have to go over jumps and stuff like that. It's pretty cool, but Stunt Cycle is by far the, you know, the hit of this console. And I know around this time frame they came out with a lot of these like plug-and-play consoles, but the fact that the build quality is so good and, you know, the throttle response is so awesome, I've never played the real arcade game, but I gotta think that, you know, they did a pretty good job replicating the arcade controls. Anyways, I'm super excited about this pickup and I really got excited to share it with all of you because it wasn't a game I played as a kid so it's pretty neat to kind of transport yourself back to 1976 or 77 and kind of see what this game was all about. Definitely excited. 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