Championship Motocross featuring Ricky Carmichael - Playstation Playthrough #131 (125CC)
22Championship Motocross featuring Ricky Carmichael is a video game developed by Funcom Dublin and published by THQ for the PlayStation in 1999. It is the first of four motocross racing games published by THQ to be endorsed by professional motocross racer Ricky Carmichael. A sequel, Championship Motocross 2001 featuring Ricky Carmichael, was released on PlayStation and Game Boy Color.
Jeff Lundrigan reviewed the PlayStation version of the game for Next Generation, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "the high level of difficulty will likely frustrate many, but man, whatta ride"
THQ's partnership with Carmichael would endure for several more years, resulting in three more motocross racing games that received endorsement from Carmichael: a sequel to Championship Motocross featuring Ricky Carmichael, titled Championship Motocross 2001 featuring Ricky Carmichael, followed by what would be the first two installments of the Championship Motocross duology's follow-up series, the MX trilogy: MX 2002 featuring Ricky Carmichael and MX Superfly featuring Ricky Carmichael. This new trilogy, released on sixth-generation platforms, would be a precursor to THQ's racing series, MX vs. ATV, a crossover with Sony's ATV Offroad Fury series.