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''Cool Riders'' is a 1994 racing arcade game. It is a spiritual sequel to Sega's ''OutRunners'' released in 1992. It has a similar premise to ''OutRunners'', though rather than drive cars, the player rides bikes. It also uses digitized graphics similar to ''Mortal Kombat''. Cool Riders has only recently been emulated in the MAME emulator. This is because it was the only arcade game on the Sega System H1 hardware, which used a unique graphics compression scheme. ==Gameplay== The object of ''Cool Riders'' is to finish each stage ahead of a computer-controlled rival by the end of a stage's checkpoint and within the allotted time. You get to select the next stage if you finish first - however, your opponent will select the next stage if you fail to beat him or her. For every rival you beat up to stage four, you will receive a promotion, indicated on the lower left-hand corner of the screen. Normally, in ''OutRun'' and ''OutRunners'', there are two routes you can take - the west and eastbound routes, but in ''Riders'', there are three (westbound and eastbound routes with a middle route that takes the player through the United States.) There are five stages like ''OutRunners'', whereas stage five in this game is an Extra Stage where the object is to outrace all seven computer-controlled rival opponents on the streets of New York City to the finish line. Regardless of what happens, you will get to see your character's ending on a projector if you had time left over to finish the race, followed by a map containing the route the player took to reach the Extra Stage and the finish line, followed by the word "FINISH" appearing in the center of the screen. Like in ''OutRunners'', Sonic the Hedgehog appears in this game. When you complete the game and reach the high score table, he appears as a head drawing as one of the icons for your initials. He is also joined by a head drawing of Miles "Tails" Prower as an icon. The game is also known for its failure animations when you run out of time during a race and come to a complete stop. This is signified by the announcer saying the same "game over" message as in ''OutRunners'', "I'm sorry. You didn't make it." When this happens, the animation as described below corresponding to the character the player chose plays followed by the map appearing showing the route the player took with the word "RETIRE" appearing in the center of the screen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cool Riders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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