Released in 1995
Available in 
Genre: Racing
Motocross Championship
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Released in 1995 |
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Genre: Racing |
Motocross Championship ranks fairly highly on the list of bad games for the 32X and is inferior to several Genesis games it tries to rip-off, mainly the Road Rash series. The game seems to be another victim of rushed development, with poor, pixilated graphics, bad music and horrible gameplay. Colliding with CPU riders will bring your bike to a stop, even if they are the ones who crash into you. But the CPU never seems to slow down that much from a collision, and the pile ups you get into are embarrassing -you'll be stuck for a few seconds whilst drivers repeatedly shout "hey!".
The CPU is also overly difficult (even on the easiest setting) and clearly cheats, such as riding through oil without falling over and generally being faster than you when they shouldn't be. The crashes can often lead from you going from being at the front of the pack and then to the back within seconds.
A third of the screen is taken up by a status bar, and with the actual game window being so small it becomes very difficult to tell where you are supposed to go when landing from jumps. There is also a two player mode, but the game windows are so squashed for both players it may as well have been cut from the game. Whilst there aren't many racing games for the 32X, Motocross Championship is the worst of them and not worth bothering with.
Contents
1) Info
2) Cheats
3) Prototypes
4) Trivia
Info
There are two main game modes: practice and season. Practice lets you pick and type of bike and then race it on any of the twelve circuits. There are also three different bike types, which are 150cc, 250cc and the super bike class. Each race has twelve riders racing on it, and the aim is to take first place. In the season mode, you will start out with the 150cc bike and have to work your way up by winning races (or placing highly in them) to get cash so you can upgrade.
Each circuit has turns and jumps, the latter letting you get massive air. Hold down or up on the d-pad to try and land the bike well, doing so will let you move on without losing much speed. As you race, the other riders can try and knock you off your bike, move away from them or try mashing the C button (whilst holding left or right) to hit back. Other riders aren't the only things to worry about, as some parts of the track are covered in oil spills, riding over these will make you fall off your bike, and getting back on it wastes several seconds.
The season mode lets you save your progress by giving your long and fiddly passwords, sadly there isn't any battery back-up. A two player mode is also present, letting you and a friend race against each other and some CPU riders. Any track can be selected, as can any bike class.
Enter these passwords to enter the last race of the season.
125cc class:
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260cc class:
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Super bike class:
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There are currently fifteen prototypes available for this game, read about them here.
The photos used as some of the game's backgrounds were taken by Motocross Action Magazine, a magazine which is, as of 2024, still published today.
Said photos seemed to have been saved in poor quality (JPEG or worse) as if you look at them, they really don't look very good.
Hackers have found some uncompiled code in the game which hints that a PC version of the game might have been in development, but it was never released.
