Cool Riders

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Cool Riders
System(s): Sega H1 Board
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega AM1
Genre: Racing
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code US 1995-09 $? ? UK 1995-10 £? ? JP 1995-04 ¥? ?

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Cool Riders (クールライダーズ) is an arcade racing motorbike game released by Sega in 1995. It is one of the last Sega arcade games to utilise Super Scaler technology, running on specialised hardware presumably extended from the Sega System 32 architecture.

Released at a time where Sega were pushing their Sega Model 2 arcade board, Cool Riders is considered to be an odd release, being difficult to find and taking many years to emulate due to its unorthodox graphics compression schemes. It also borrows vast chunks of its assets (including gameplay style) from Outrunners, though offers a number of differences such as an increased screen resolution and digitised pre-rendered graphics similar to Mortal Kombat (or later Road Rash games).

Cool Riders has to date never been ported to any home systems, and was not released in Europe.

Gameplay

Characters

	Max
	Big Boss
	Garcia
	Dr. Vincent
	David & Sharlie
	Gloria
	Chris
	John Doe

Versions

Cabinet design

Cool Riders was only sold as a twin-style cabinet (with the ability to link up to four cabinets together), though the styles differ between Japan and North America. Though both have you control vehicles via makeshift handlebars, the Japanese cabinet unusually has seats more suited to cars, while the North American variant opts for seats moulded like motorbikes. Perhaps unusually, this is a simpler (or "less realistic") system than the cabinets used with the earlier Hang-On or Manx TT Super Bike released later in 1995 - in Cool Riders, the seats are rigid and offer no type of force feedback.

Production credits

Main article: Cool Riders/Production credits.

Magazine articles

Main article: Cool Riders/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

Arcade US flyer

Arcade JP flyer

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Computer & Video Games (UK) 70 Next Generation (US) 25 Sega Pro (UK) 46

	47
Based on 3 reviews

Cool Riders

Arcade, US
Manual Wiring diagram

Arcade, JP

External links

• Attract screen video