Excitebots: Trick Racing
Nintendo Wii U · 2009
About this game
ExciteBots is a follow-up to the Wii launch title, Excite Truck .
Like Excite Truck , it is in a sense a spiritual continuation of the Excite series started in the early days of the NES with Excite Bike .
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ExciteBots further mixes up the gameplay in the series, furthering the craziness and intensity brought on with Excite Truck .
The latest change features the bikes or trucks from past games replaced by Bots--robotic cars with a few transformations and other elements.
Gameplay ExciteBots plays almost exactly like it's Wii predecessor, meaning the game is played in an arcade-racing style featuring wild jumps, powerslides, turbo boosts, etc.
Returning from Excite Truck is the set-up that earning stars through various means (during the races) is typically more important than simply finishing first.
Players earn stars from stunts, long-distance jumps, driving through trees, crashing into other bots, and through a wide variety of other means.
All of the means to earns stars in Excite Truck remain here, but ExciteBots has added several unusual, strange, and silly means to earn even more, including, but not limited to: • Hitting a football or soccer ball into a giant goal. • Launching a giant dart into a target. • Performing tricks on various stunt bars. • Attacking with items from item boxes (a la Super Mario Kart ). • Gliding through butterfly icons. • Hitting Question Mark Triggers, which deform the environment. • Grinding on rails.
As is typical of many Nintendo racing and sports games (such as Punch-Out!! or Uniracers ), the game is set up in a series of cups of gradually increasing difficulty, each cup featuring four or five races.
The game features five cups, each one unlocked gradually as players progress through races and earn enough stars.
There are also different difficulty settings.
ExciteBots also features a two-player mode (both online and offline), several mini-games, and a feature known as Poker Race, where the goal is to race through cards in order to build
About Nintendo Wii U
The Wii U (2012) was commercially Nintendo's least successful home console, hampered by market confusion over whether the GamePad tablet controller was a new device or a Wii accessory. Its low sales mean smaller overall print runs across the board, and several first-party and indie darlings have already become noticeably pricier than their commercial performance would suggest, since there are simply fewer copies in circulation.
Gamevaro tracks Excitebots: Trick Racing for Nintendo Wii U with separate market values for loose, complete-in-box (CIB) and factory-sealed copies, sourced from real eBay sales. Prices also vary by region — PAL, NTSC-U and NTSC-J releases of the same game often sell for different amounts due to print run sizes and regional collector demand.
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Market values by condition
NTSC-U
Recent sales
| Date | Type | Region | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-12 | Loose / Item only | NTSC-U | €11.53 |
Rarity & condition
Only a handful of market sales have been tracked for Excitebots: Trick Racing, suggesting it doesn't trade hands very often — a sign of relative scarcity compared to more common Nintendo Wii U titles.
Complete-in-box (CIB) copies typically command a premium over loose cartridges/discs because the original box and manual are more fragile and get discarded or damaged over time — fewer complete sets survive.
Frequently asked questions
How much is Excitebots: Trick Racing worth?
Gamevaro hasn't tracked a market sale for Excitebots: Trick Racing (Nintendo Wii U) yet, so no current value is available. Prices are sourced from real marketplace sales, and this page will update automatically once sales data comes in.
Is Excitebots: Trick Racing rare?
Excitebots: Trick Racing has only a handful of tracked market sales, suggesting relative scarcity compared to more common Nintendo Wii U titles.
What's the difference between loose, CIB and sealed for Excitebots: Trick Racing?
Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. These are tracked as separate market values because the price gap between them can be significant, especially for older releases.
