Radikal Bikers

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Radikal Bikers
Radikal Bikers arcade flyer.jpg
Developer(s) Gaelco [lower-alpha 1]
Publisher(s) Arcade
Infogrames (PlayStation)
Director(s) Josep Quingles
Programmer(s) Alexander Ekjanov
Diego Campos
Enric Vives
Artist(s) Toni López Yeste [1]
Xavier Arrebola G. [2]
Xavier Fradera [3]
Composer(s) Joan Sanmarti
Platform(s) Arcade, PlayStation, Evercade
ReleaseArcade
PlayStation
Evercade
[6]
Genre(s) Action, racing
Mode(s)
Arcade system Gaelco 3D Hardware [7]

Radikal Bikers is a racing arcade game developed by the Spanish company Gaelco in 1998, with also a conversion for PlayStation developed instead by Bit Managers, it was only released in Europe. [8] The spiritual successor to this game was Smashing Drive .

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Gameplay

Arcade version screenshot. ARC Radikal Bikers.png
Arcade version screenshot.

Radikal Bikers is set in a Mediterranean environment, and is based on delivering pizza on a rare Italian scooter called Italjet Dragster in heavy traffic before your AI opponent does, while getting points. The arcade version has three difficulty levels, which correspond to each of the different places: Margherita (easy, set in Milan), Capricciosa (medium, set in Rome), and Diabola (hard, set in Naples). If you beat all four races in a level, you get to play the next level free. Meanwhile, the PlayStation version includes four more locations on top of the original three as part of the extended Radikal mode: Marinara (set in Venice), Fantasia (set in Paris), Reggiana (set in London) and Americana (set in New York)

Points

Power-ups

Characters

On the Arcade version are:

Finally, on the PlayStation version there are three new characters: Albert, Gus and Noodles.

Development

Release

The previously cancelled Game Boy Color version of the game was released on the Evercade console as part of the Piko Interactive Collection 3 on May 31, 2023. [9]

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the arcade version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "There's nothing else quite like this gem in the arcades, and it's sure to bring a smile to your face." [10]

Legacy

Notes

  1. ↑ Ported to PlayStation by Bit Managers

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