Top Rider, a motorcycle game, challenges players to achieve decent or random times in each race while navigating through the track without colliding with other motorcycles, posts, or advertising signs.
The gameplay revolves around avoiding obstacles and maintaining speed. When a collision is unavoidable, the player will simply fall off. Competitive races do not display positions on the screen, but once a course is completed, the final standings screen appears, showing 20 names in all modes except touring mode, where only the player's name is visible.
The game features two modes: "touring" and "grand prix". In touring mode, players can select four different scenes. In grand prix mode, there are nine courses to complete, with the first four being from Japan and the remaining five from European countries such as Yugoslavia and Sweden.