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Ever since the day Tony Hawk premiered, extreme games featuring tricks, funky moves and extreme sports stars showcasing a bike, skateboard or surfboard have been all the rage. Just like Tony Hawk, THQ's latest Championship Motocross 2001 features a celebrity star from the Motocross circuit to help increase sales. Ricky Carmichael's name was licensed for the game, but his fame was not needed to carry this game. Championship Motocross 2001 can rely on its fundamentals alone to rake in the cash.
This game is for Nintendo's Game Boy. This is one of the nicest games to look at for the hand held system. The graphics are excellent. 
It is nice to have a graphically superior game also have superior game play. This game is a whole lot of fun. You can choose from 30 bikers and compete in over ten tracks on your way to the championship or the US Open. You can even change weather conditions to wet, dry or regular, and if you'd like, you can also change the number of laps necessary to complete a race.
Once you begin, the game is a lot of fun, as you compete in the Motocross circuit in hopes of being number one. The controls are easy and all that stands between you and championship glory are stupid mistakes, long twists and turns and other bikers.
Some problems arise when you do crash. You can never seem to catch up to your opponents if you crash just once. It's like they are perfect or something. So, once you mess up, you too have to be virtually perfect to do yourself justice in the race.
Still, this game is a lot of fun to play and pretty exciting as well. Jumping hills is nice, as long as you don't crash. The game even keeps records for the longest jumps. I've gone pretty far on those hills. I can only imagine what it's like on the real thing! I'll just stick to the game.
Badseed's Bottomline: 3.5 out of 5. This game is the Pole Position for bikes. I loved that game and this game brought back those memories. Championship Motocross 2001 Featuring Ricky Carmichael is a game that I would normally never think of playing, but I'm glad I did. It's game I'll continue playing until I beat it.