Play Super Keirin (Japan) Online

Tight, claustrophobic bike racing where you’re constantly jostling for position—time your boosts right or eat someone’s back wheel. The pixelated velodrome crowds go wild when you barely squeeze past a rival at the line.

Developer: Aim

Genre: Racing

Released: 1994

File size: 966 bytes

Game Overview

Super Keirin is one of those SNES games that makes you do a double-take—wait, a bike racing game? But give it one race and suddenly you're elbows-deep in this weirdly intense pixelated version of Japan's pro cycling scene. The tracks are tight, the AI riders play dirty, and timing your speed boosts feels like threading a needle while getting shoved from all sides.

What really sells it is the atmosphere: the chunky sprites, the crowd animations that somehow make a velodrome look rowdy, and that unmistakable early '90s vibe where games didn’t over-explain themselves. You’ll mess up the first few races (turns out mashing buttons doesn’t work here), but once you get the rhythm of drafting and conserving stamina, it clicks into this oddly satisfying balance of strategy and reflexes.

It’s niche, sure, but if you’ve ever wanted a racer where the real challenge isn’t the track but the pack of aggressive cyclists around you, this is your jam. Just don’t blame me when you’re still trying to shave half a second off your time at 2 AM.