Cool Riders is a 1994 racing arcade game. It is a spiritual sequel to Sega's OutRunners. It has a similar premise to OutRunners, though rather than drive cars, the player rides bikes. It also uses digitized graphics similar to Mortal Kombat. Cool Riders has only recently been emulated in the MAME emulator. This is because it was the only arcade game on the Sega System H1 hardware, which used a unique graphics compression scheme. The object of Cool Riders is to finish each stage ahead of a computer-controlled rival by the end of a stage's checkpoint and within the allotted time. You get to select the next stage if you finish first - however, your opponent will select the next stage if you fail to beat him or her. For every rival you beat up to stage four, you will receive a promotion, indicated on the lower left-hand corner of the screen. Normally, in OutRun and OutRunners, there are two routes you can take - the west and eastbound routes, but in Riders, there are three (westbound and e...