Enduro Racer

In Japan, Game Machine listed Enduro Racer on their August 15, 1986 issue as being the most-successful upright/cockpit arcade unit of the month, and it remained at the top of the charts through September and October 1986. It was Japan's second highest-grossing upright/cockpit arcade game during the latter half of 1986, just below Sega's Space Harrier. It was Japan's sixth highest-grossing upright/cockpit arcade game of 1986. In the United Kingdom, it was the eighth highest-grossing arcade game of 1986 in London. The ZX Spectrum version of the game went to number 2 on the UK sales charts in August 1987, below BMX Simulator. Enduro Racer later topped the UK budget sales chart in June 1988. In January 1987, Clare Edgeley reviewed the arcade game in Computer and Video Games, praising it as "brilliant" and calling it a different game from Hang-On. In 1993, the Spectrum port and was voted number 50 in the Your Sinclair Official Top 100 Games of All Time. A reviewer for Computer and Video Games praised the Spectrum port for being as close to an accurate arcade version as the Spectrum hardware can handle, with smooth graphics. John Gilbert of Sinclair User also gave high praise to the Spectrum version, stating that the conversion "puts other top software houses to shame". Writing for Commodore User, reviewer Ferdy Hamilton was disappointed in the Commodore 64's release, citing the "blob-like sprites", jerking controls, and that the conversion could have been better than that for the ZX Spectrum, which he called "unfaultable". Three reviewers for Zzap!64 were highly critical of the Commodore 64 port, slamming the game's poor features with one reviewer stating: "It doesn't look, sound, or play anything like the original - in fact, it doesn't play at all well full stop". A reviewer for ACE wrote that the Atari ST version is a good conversion of the original but that the replacement of the bike noises with music might disappoint some. It was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in North America on December 15, 2008 and in Europe on January 9, 2009.