Editing Excitebike Arena

{{race course infobox

|title=Excitebike Arena

|appears_in=''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' ([[The Legend of Zelda x Mario Kart 8|DLC Pack 1]]) ([[List of games by date#2014|2014]])<br>''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' ([[List of games by date#2017|2017]])

|cups=[[Egg Cup]]

The racecourse is simply a huge oval (much like [[GCN Baby Park|Baby Park]], but longer and larger in width) with many ramps and [[mud]] spots, much like race tracks in the original ''Excitebike''. Signs featuring the Japanese & European box art for ''Excitebike'' can be seen throughout the course, as well as a large statue of an 8-bit biker sprite on one end of the track. This track is unique in the fact that the track changes every time a race starts. There are many different segments with jumps, ramps and mud spots that can change position and height; according to ''Mario Kart 8'' director Kosuke Yabuki, there are over 200 different patterns of such elements.<ref>{{cite|language=en-us|publisher=GameSpot|date=November 18, 2014|url=www.gamespot.com/articles/mario-kart-8-director-talks-dlc-hyrule-circuit-sec/1100-6423677|author=GameSpot Staff|title=Mario Kart 8 Director Talks DLC, Hyrule Circuit Secrets, and More -- Interview|accessdate=July 8, 2024}}</ref> A standard pattern is used in [[Time Trials]] to help keep consistency between time trial records.<ref>{{cite|author=Mario Kart|date=October 28, 2014|url=www.facebook.com/MarioKartEN/posts/603634643074466|title=... the location of ramps and speed boosts change every time you race! (Except on Time Trials, of course!)&nbsp;...|language=en|publisher=Facebook|accessdate=July 29, 2022}}</ref> In ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', brown variants of the ramps in this course are found in [[RMX Choco Island 1]] and [[RMX Choco Island 2]] and their respective variants.

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<gallery widths=150px>

MK8 Excitebike Arena Course Icon.png|The course icon

MK8 Excitebike Arena Starting Line.jpg|The course, as seen from the starting line

Excitebike Arena MK8 DLC photo 2.png|A view of the racers, mimicking that of the original ''Excitebike''

PeachBikerB.jpg|Peach about to drift around a corner on the course

PeachBikerC.jpg|Peach performing a jump with the Excitebike screen in the background

RosalinaStartingLineExcitebikeArena.jpg|[[Rosalina]] at the starting line

</gallery>

==Names in other languages==

{{foreign names

|ChiS=越野摩托

|ChiSR=Yuèyě Mótuō

}}

*The opening animation during the countdown to the race is the lowering of the bars, which allow the characters to drive, like the starting line from the ''Excitebike'' series. This is one of six courses to have an opening animation during the countdown (the others are [[Twisted Mansion]], [[Electrodrome]], [[Mount Wario]], [[Bowser's Castle (Mario Kart 8)|Bowser's Castle]] and [[Piranha Plant Cove]]).

*During its debut trailer, all of the characters except for [[Yoshi]] (who is given an ATV) are given bikes as a reference to the game the track was based on.  

*This is the only track based on a video game outside of the ''Super Mario'' franchise not to be the last course of a cup.

*At the lower end of the course, along the turn leading to the finish line, there are two sets of doors with textures that have been mirrored by mistake, made obvious by the ''Mario Kart'' logos situated on top of them.

==References==