Burn Cycle
| Burn Cycle | |
|---|---|
CD-i cover art | |
| Developer(s) | TripMedia |
| Publisher(s) | Philips Interactive Media |
| Director(s) | David Collier |
| Producer(s) | David Collier |
| Programmer(s) | Graham Deane |
| Artist(s) | Olaf Wendt |
| Writer(s) | Eitan Arrusi |
| Composer(s) | Simon Boswell |
| Platform(s) | CD-i, Mac OS, Windows |
| Release | October 1994 |
| Genre(s) | Interactive film Point-and-click adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Burn Cycle (stylized as Burn:Cycle) is a 1994 point-and-click adventure video game for the CD-i that incorporates full motion video and is set in a surrealist cyberpunk world. The game follows Sol Cutter, a computer hacker and data thief, whose latest theft causes a virus named Burn Cycle to be implanted in his head. The game features a two-hour countdown timer to defuse the virus, with the player jumping back and forth between a fictional ingame virtual reality world known as the Televerse in order to destroy the Burn Cycle virus and solve the mystery of its creation.
The game was re-released for personal computers in 1995. In 1996 Philips Interactive Media announced that all of their CD-i games would be ported to the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation during the third quarter of 1996, starting with Burn Cycle. However, these ports were never released.