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Posted November 12, 2017
Burn: Cycle was awesome for me. I got it from my step dad back when it was new, and the ESRB was just starting out. It was rated "M" and I think I was 16, close to 17. My biological father let me play it, and I had a ton of fun with it.

The basic premise is similar to Johnny Mnemonic but as I recall came out a year or two earlier. You handle data in your brain, and one day you get a bad upload to your brain, with a virus called Burn: Cycle. You have to navigate the game and get to the end before you run out of time.

This is one of my favorite games from the 90's, and the only one I remember that wasn't Sierra or Tex Murphy and had FMV in it (I was only allowed to play certain games).

Anyway, does anyone else remember this game? I thought I put a wish on the wishlist for it, but I can't seem to find it right now...
Posted November 12, 2017
http://www.mobygames.com/game/burncycle

Can't say I remember this. Did you play it on PC, Macintosh or CD-i? It seems to be one of the "interactive CD-ROM movie era" games, and according to Mobygames, not well received.

Also the fact that the PC version was only for Windows 3.1 probably narrowed its market as well. Most gamers played on MS-DOS, and later migrated to Windows 9x; plus, running the game today would be extra troublesome due to Win 3.1.

Also coming out in 1994, I guess it came out in the time when CD-ROM drives were still on their way to becoming standard equipment on all PCs. That, and that people were busy playing Doom 1-2 at the time, probably forced this game into oblivion.
Post edited November 12, 2017 by timppu
Posted November 12, 2017
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CymTyr: [...] The basic premise is similar to Johnny Mnemonic but as I recall came out a year or two earlier. [...]
(N.B. Johnny Mnemonic is a short story by William Gibson, first published in OMNI magazine in 1981, and later in the Burning Chrome anthology in 1986)
Post edited November 12, 2017 by amok
Posted November 12, 2017
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CymTyr: I thought I put a wish on the wishlist for it, but I can't seem to find it right now...
Here - https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/burn_cycle

And another - https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/burn_cycle_1
Posted November 12, 2017
I do remember it but never played it.
From the sound of it it's similar to Cyberia.
Posted November 12, 2017
Thanks for the responses, everyone. Maybe it's the nostalgia, but I thought it was a nice game for the time.
Posted November 23, 2017
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CymTyr: Thanks for the responses, everyone. Maybe it's the nostalgia, but I thought it was a nice game for the time.
I also played this game about the same age i was 15/16 and I loved it. It was amazing. I replayed it twice over the last decade and it hold up minus how slow it is. Good memories.
Posted November 23, 2017
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CymTyr: Burn: Cycle was awesome for me. I got it from my step dad back when it was new, and the ESRB was just starting out. It was rated "M" and I think I was 16, close to 17. My biological father let me play it, and I had a ton of fun with it.

The basic premise is similar to Johnny Mnemonic but as I recall came out a year or two earlier. You handle data in your brain, and one day you get a bad upload to your brain, with a virus called Burn: Cycle. You have to navigate the game and get to the end before you run out of time.

This is one of my favorite games from the 90's, and the only one I remember that wasn't Sierra or Tex Murphy and had FMV in it (I was only allowed to play certain games).

Anyway, does anyone else remember this game? I thought I put a wish on the wishlist for it, but I can't seem to find it right now...
You might tweet the game at NightDive, as something they could potentially research for a re-release. (The fact that it's Windows 95 era might be a sticking point.)

https://twitter.com/NightdiveStudio
Posted November 23, 2017
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CymTyr: Burn: Cycle was awesome for me. I got it from my step dad back when it was new, and the ESRB was just starting out. It was rated "M" and I think I was 16, close to 17. My biological father let me play it, and I had a ton of fun with it.

The basic premise is similar to Johnny Mnemonic but as I recall came out a year or two earlier. You handle data in your brain, and one day you get a bad upload to your brain, with a virus called Burn: Cycle. You have to navigate the game and get to the end before you run out of time.

This is one of my favorite games from the 90's, and the only one I remember that wasn't Sierra or Tex Murphy and had FMV in it (I was only allowed to play certain games).

Anyway, does anyone else remember this game? I thought I put a wish on the wishlist for it, but I can't seem to find it right now...
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tfishell: You might tweet the game at NightDive, as something they could potentially research for a re-release. (The fact that it's Windows 95 era might be a sticking point.)

https://twitter.com/NightdiveStudio
Thanks, but no thanks. I don't use Twitter.
Posted November 23, 2017
Sounds familiar. Looks like it came out my freshman year in college, and my dorm was LOADED with gamers, so I probably saw it there.
Posted November 23, 2017
I stil have the retail CD here with me. It was a "strange" game and the movie sequences were so low res it's shuddering. I still enjoyed it since I like the theme of the game. Afaik it's hard to get this to run today.

I also have some dog tags with Burn Cycle on it which were included with the game :)
Post edited November 23, 2017 by MarkoH01
Posted March 31, 2018
Ressurecting this thread. I now use twitter, so I am going to tweet NightDive.
Posted March 31, 2018
forget it. the game is 16 bit windows, meaning it will never run on modern windows machines.
Posted March 31, 2018
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CymTyr: *snip*
Never played it, but I remember seeing the commercial for it as well as seeing it during those late night informercials they used to have for the Phillips CD-i.
Posted March 31, 2018
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loki1985: forget it. the game is 16 bit windows, meaning it will never run on modern windows machines.
You can always run Win 3.1 in DOSBox for these things. They are also well supported in Wine ironically - I actually replayed the original Exile series on my netbook under Linux Mint .
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