The Cycles: International Grand Prix Racing (DOS)

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Description

As the name suggests, The Cycles simulates International Grand Prix Racing, allowing a player to compete against 9 computer rivals. Choose from three classes of bike (125, 250 and 500cc), and between 8 (Japan, Australia, USA, Spain, Italy, France,England and Sweden) and 15 (Japan, Australia, USA, Spain, Italy, Western Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Holland, Belgium, France, England, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and Brazil) original tracks depending on the version, at five difficulty levels (with the lower ones offering automatic gear changes).

The player can enter single races (always including qualifying) or complete in a full season. The action is viewed from the handlebars of your bike, a novelty for motorcycle racing at the time. The game engine is similar to that used by Grand Prix Circuit, but now incorporates hills.

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Alternate Titles

• "Grand Prix Circuit: Cycles" -- Informal title

Part of the Following Groups

• Games with manual lookup copy protection
• Setting: Country - France

User Reviews

An accessible motorbike game with a novel camera view	Roedie (5247)
A clean but unbalanced racing sim.	Trixter (9116)
Time changes a lot of things but not this game.. Still a great game.	MajorDad (535)

Critic Reviews

Zero	Jan, 1990	86 out of 100	86
The Games Machine (UK)	Jan, 1990	82 out of 100	82
Power Play	Dec, 1989	81 out of 100	81
100 aktuelle PC-Spiele	1990	8 out of 10	80
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Jan, 1990	773 out of 1000	77
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	1990	69 out of 100	69
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Nov, 1989	3.8 out of 12	32

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Trivia

Music

There are drums in the Tandy music, but not in the Adlib music. Odd, considering that the Adlib is a much more capable card, and could have easily accommodated percussion in the title music.

References

A.I. riders like Brad Gourdo, Don Matrini and Kirk Patrick were named after some of the developers.

Information also contributed by Roedie.

Related Web Sites

• IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)
• THE CYCLES (Free download location for the DOS game)