By acstriker on Skatehive
Well, let's get to the chase. Yet another arcade racer that lived on my head but turns out to be fairly obscure, this one used to be at the local arcade many years ago at the mall, but as that got closed so long ago, I thought I'd never be able to play it again - at least not until advancements in a certain tool for running arcade games on PC managed to add support for this game. ...And I guess that's the basic context about why I'm talking about this one today - sometimes you don't need a grandiose introduction just to talk about something you enjoyed and want to talk about. You got Boost Power Nirin's main gameplay mechanic is simple: When you turn, you build the meter on the left, which stays charged as long as you want until you keep the bike straight for a moment. As soon as you do that, you'll get the boost you had charged up. It may sound that the game is super easy to win if you just keep going for that...but if you somehow happen to get to the track's boss on your first races,