| Nintendo's Famicom booklet presents the game as a Family Computer cassette with the catalog number HVC-MR, and is copyright 1985. | PDF p. 2, opening noteback cover (PDF p. 20) | Manual |
| The Famicom booklet tells it differently: Mach Rider is a lone survivor riding through the wilderness in search of new land, attacked by rioters, and the player shoots them while clearing all 20 courses. | PDF p. 6, 3. 遊び方PDF p. 6, 3. 遊び方 | Manual |
| A is the accelerator: held, the bike speeds up, and let go, the engine slows it. B fires the machine gun. The control pad shifts to a higher or a lower gear and steers left and right. The game uses controller 1 only. | PDF p. 4PDF p. 4 | Manual |
| The game menu offers four choices: the Fighting Course, the Endurance Course, the Solo Course, and Design. On the Fighting Course the player races through the course while his energy lasts, and running slow or crashing drains it faster; the energy left decides how many Mach Riders he gets on the second course, and every 3 courses cleared add one. The Endurance Course is a race through the course within a set time, and the Solo Course is the Endurance Course without enemies. | PDF p. 7, Endurance Course | Manual |
| Design mode lets the player build a course of his own from 37 course parts, placed with a cursor; a course must run from the left side of the design area to the right. The NES booklet says the Save and Load menu items don't work in this game, kept for possible later products, while the Famicom booklet saves and loads courses on cassette tape through the Family BASIC keyboard (HVC-007) and its data recorder (HVC-008). | PDF p. 12, 4. DESIGN モードの使い方PDF p. 16 | Manual |