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A Mega Drive version was also planned, but was cancelled.
A Mega Drive conversion was in development alongside Slap Fight MD by M.N.M Software, but was never released.
A Mega Drive version was also planned, but was cancelled.
Rally Bike is a racing arcade video game originally developed by Toaplan but published and distributed by Taito at its release in May 1988.
A Nintendo Entertainment System port of Rally Bike developed by Visco Corporation was first released in Japan on June 15, 1990 and later in North America by Romstar on September of the same year.
The title later received a faithful conversion to the Sharp X68000 by SPS and only published in Japan by Sharp Corporation on May 23, 1991, although it contains several minor differences when compared to the original version such as the modified aspect ratio, missing animations, among other changes.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 20 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 15.75 out of 30, as shown below.
In Japan, Game Machine listed Rally Bike on their July 1, 1988 issue as being the second most-popular arcade game at the time.
Commodore User criticized the controls but praised the graphics.
In more recent years, the rights to the game and many other IPs from Toaplan are now owned by Tatsujin, a company named after Truxtons Japanese title that was founded in 2017 by former Toaplan employee Masahiro Yuge, and is part of Embracer Group since 2022.
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