X1 game of the night is Excitebike. Another Nintendo classic on the X1 series.

This one doesn’t play as smoothly as the original. For example, depending on your current speed and terrain, you sometimes watch your bike suddenly appear a few pixels ahead of the previous position, as opposed to watching him ride there. The graphics themselves are higher detail, though, so it is something of a balance.

The music is also not quite as smooth, it seems like a slightly dragged-out and distorted version of the original.

But the game is still quite enjoyable on this platform!

Update! I got a boxed copy of Excitebike recently. I put it in my trusty tape drive, turned on the X1, and it started loading. It found the program name and the tape kept on spinning. Great, I thought. I left the room to go do something for a few minutes. When I came back, the game had still not loaded, and, I dunno, perhaps a couple of meters worth of tape had wound itself around parts of the data recorder. It was so tight the only thing to do was cut parts of the tape off and remove it. Very sad! But here's the box.