{"id":17846,"date":"2018-06-01T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17846"},"modified":"2018-05-30T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T18:30:11","slug":"nintendo-labo-motorcycle-handlebars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/01\/nintendo-labo-motorcycle-handlebars\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Labo Motorcycle Handlebars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>VROOM! VROOM!\u00a0 The next Nintendo Labo creation is a set of motorcycle handlebars.\u00a0 Once you build them, you can play motorcycle racing and stunt games.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take them for a test drive.<\/p>\n

In the middle of the handlebars houses the Switch screen, and the handles hold the left and right JoyCons. \u00a0There are buttons you build that press buttons on the inside where the JoyCons are.\u00a0 The left button honks the horn, and the right button starts the engine.\u00a0 Accelerate by twisting the right handle, and brake with the top lever.\u00a0 Steer by tilting the whole thing left and right.\u00a0 You can even power slide like how you do in Mario Kart or Ridge Racer.\u00a0 At first I thought the big protrusion coming out from the bottom was a counterweight, but you actually put that against your belly while you play. Here is a picture of the whole thing.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s another shot of the front.\u00a0 You even build a headlight for the front, but it doesn\u2019t do anything.<\/p>\n

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After you build you can choose to do circuit racing or stadium.\u00a0 In circuit you choose from a set of beginner, intermediate, or advanced tracks and race against other bikers to become first.\u00a0 You can run over boost bottles or get behind another player for a burst of speed.\u00a0 In the stadium mode you try to pop balloons on a stadium full of raised hills and valleys.\u00a0 The cool thing is you can create your own tracks and stadiums, and there are little extra things you can build to make those activities more fun, supposedly.<\/p>\n

The first thing you can build is a mini-bike, which houses the JoyCon controller.\u00a0 It\u2019s just cosmetic, really, but it does look cute.\u00a0 You\u2019re supposed to use this to create your own tracks, but you can also use the full handlebars as well.\u00a0 You can drive around to make a road, and raise and lower the level and many other things.\u00a0 Only problem is it\u2019s really hard to figure out how to do it.\u00a0 They explain it a little bit in Discover Mode, but not enough to understand it once you try it yourself.\u00a0 It was so confusing to make tracks I didn\u2019t even finish mine.\u00a0 That\u2019s the one big problem I with this this Labo set.<\/p>\n

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The other thing you can do is make your own stadium with hills and valleys using the IR camera on the right JoyCon. This one works much better.\u00a0 I scanned my Pac-Man amiibo and it created a pretty good looking Pac-Man shaped mountain to drive around on.\u00a0 The object you build looks like a camera and helps keep the JoyCon steady.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s really all there is to it.\u00a0 Although I can\u2019t help but think Nintendo had some missed opportunities with this.\u00a0 The motorcycle racing game is fun, but a little generic, and the announcer voice is totally incoherent and unrecognizable.\u00a0 With a change in graphics and style, they could\u2019ve changed it to an Excitebike themed area with more jumps and music and such.<\/p>\n

You know what other game that these handlebars made me think of?\u00a0 Anyone remember the arcade game Paperboy? \u00a0(now there\u2019s an obsolete job)\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, the arcade version of Paperboy had a bike handbar on the arcade cabinet that you could use to control the character.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be cool if Paperboy came to the Switch and could use the Labo handlebars as a controller?\u00a0 I think it would be the first time that authentic arcade game controls for Paperboy would\u2019ve been on a home console version!\u00a0 Anyway, last up for the Nintendo Variety Kit is the piano.\u00a0 Stay \u2018tuned!\u2019\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VROOM! VROOM!\u00a0 The next Nintendo Labo creation is a set of motorcycle handlebars.\u00a0 Once you build them, you can play motorcycle racing and stunt games.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take them for a test drive. In the middle of the handlebars houses the Switch screen, and the handles hold the left and right JoyCons. \u00a0There are buttons you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17847,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846\/revisions\/17847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}