BMX or bicycle motocross as it is an acronym for, is a sport based around specially designed bicycles, intended for extreme riding in a similar style to the motor sport of motocross. The bicycle itself has also become known as a BMX and the sport and the bike have been super popular with children and as an extreme sport since its origins in the early 1970s in California. The sport has developed over the years. It started as extreme racing on dirt tracks, but as the bikes developed and with the influence of freestyle street skateboarding and ramp skateboarding, the sport now has several offshoots based around freestyle tricks. Over time, pioneers of the sport have developed an ever-increasing range of wild and wacky tricks, needing huge amounts of balance and skill.
BMX is a now a household name and the sport has a huge fan base across the globe and from an increasing range of age groups. BMX fans are always looking for ways to enjoy all aspects of the sport, be it a hobby sport, as a spectator, or the ever-growing sector of BMX games on home computers or games consoles, or as you will commonly find, all of the above.
BMX games are as if all computer games, increasing in possibilities as technology increases and becomes increasingly affordable and available. These games simulate the BMX sport in its various forms. The earliest BMX computer games where mixed with some sort of other basic game function for scoring points, perhaps the most famous is the legendary Paper Boy game. In Paper Boy the game, the payer had (as the name implies) to deliver papers or a paper route, but on a BMX. Of course there where all sorts of obstacles for the player to avoid and points where scored on the number of papers successfully delivered. The game was a huge success and is now a cult classic that can be played online, and is still hugely popular today (around 25 years later).
Modern computer games are more of a virtual experience and points are scored in much the same way as in the real sport. BMX racing games like BMX racing is pretty straightforward. The track is as if a motocross track so is a fairly small dirt track littered with jumps and bumps to test the rider’s abilities. Basic circuits are circular but there are an increasing number of more and more testing tracks similar to what you might find in Formula 1 racing just scaled down. In these games, the scoring is simple. You either win or come in second, third etc. As with the real sport, you can compete in leagues and cups as well as in one off races.
Perhaps the most popular and certainly the fasting growing sector within the sport, is the freestyle and ramp riding aspects of the sport. Like with skateboarding a variety of tricks are performed either on a street course or on a ramp course or on a combination of both. Some riders specialize in ramp riding, some on street riding and some cross over, so there are three competitions a rider could enter. The one thing they all have in common is the scoring method, which is to based on being judged (generally by ex-riders) on the standard of the tricks performed and how well they where pulled off (aspects such as height of the trick, or how much air the rider has achieved as it is known, how well it is landed etc). The tricks involve back flips, large jumps, spinning the bars, one handed or no handed landings, sliding down long metal poles on specially designed trick nuts on the bikes wheels and many other death-defying stunts.
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