Test Drive Cycles is a racing video game developed by American studio Xantera and published by Infogrames exclusively for Game Boy Color.

Gameplay

Instead of driving cars like in previous games, the player drives motorcycles.

Test Drive Cycles

The game has 24 tracks in 12 real world locations, with ramps to perform killer jumps.

Test Drive Cycles

There are 35 licensed motorcycles with multiple upgrade packages and color schemes. Vehicles are classified in Cruisers, Muscle bikes, Sport bikes categories. such as the 1999 Kawasaki ZX12 with 1200cc the fastest bike in the game so far.

Test Drive Cycles

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.

Cancelled console/PC version

Versions were also developed for PlayStation, Dreamcast and PC by the same development team who worked on Test Drive Off-Road 3, but these versions were cancelled in June 2000.

The PlayStation version was to include 30 licensed bikes, 12 tracks and DualShock controller support with the same applying to the Dreamcast version which would support a Jump Pak. The Microsoft Windows version would also include hidden shortcuts.

References

2000 video games

Cancelled Dreamcast games

Cancelled PlayStation (console) games

Cancelled Windows games

Game Boy Color games

Game Boy Color-only games

Infogrames games

Multiplayer and single-player video games

North America-exclusive video games

Cycles

Video games about police officers

Video games developed in the United States

Xantera games