Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Cool Riders 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.
Production credits
Planner: Makoto Sugawara
Programmers: Kazunari Tsukamoto, Kazutomo Sanbongi, Hiroshi Takei, Akira Matsubayashi
Designers: Akira Miyanishi, Tetsu Nakajima, Keiichi Baba, Hiroyuki Taguchi, Hideyuki Katou, Akira Yamanaka
Composer: Makito Nomiya
Cool Riders 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.
Production credits
Planner: Makoto Sugawara
Programmers: Kazunari Tsukamoto, Kazutomo Sanbongi, Hiroshi Takei, Akira Matsubayashi
Designers: Akira Miyanishi, Tetsu Nakajima, Keiichi Baba, Hiroyuki Taguchi, Hideyuki Katou, Akira Yamanaka
Composer: Makito Nomiya
