Thanks for this. My friend and I played through this one day when we skipped school. At Sears there was a TV with a CD-i unit and "Burn:Cycle". No one objected to two kids playing it for hours on weekday afternoon, LOL. This was when it was new around 1994. It's cool that this is captured from an actual CD-i unit, not an emulator or the PC version.
lol funny i was skipping school in the uk with a reined, took us a week to finish this game, when its probably only a few hours long lol we spend over an hour trying to get that porno in one of the stores and trying to find a way to play it
Haha! That was me and my buddy, except at Macy's watching Star Trek IV on Laserdisc around '91. The salesman even showed us how to use it. I guess he figured we'd go home, tell our parents about it, and bring him a sale.
This was my favorite game years ago. Sadly, it was a single play through, but entirely worth it. The technology they used in making it was reaching for what we all wanted games to be. Thank you for posting this. So many memories!
The acting is abysmal like most in that day and age but there were some great lines, "usually i like to keep my knees below my ears on a first date". Quality.
There's a lot of good quotes, acting aside. "You used to have choices but you used them all up". Dealy's monologue about his body and cutting parts off and the craps quote was A+. Vielli's thought line about fruits of his mind too.
Thanks for saving the entire game on here. Brings back memories. Took me 2 weeks to figure it out from start to end when I had the CD-i system back in the early mid 90s. This deserves a new life on the Oculus Quest 2 (or 3 soon).
Great game for sure, but I don't know if a remake is a good idea, the acting in this was mind-blowingly good, a new cast this good will be tough to assemble.
@@Viczarratt Yeah, you can tell there's a lot of stage actors in the lead roles here. In most FMV games the acting is either really cheesy and OTT or you have celebrities phoning it in, and I like that the story takes itself quite seriously; Cutter is this really cynical, downbeat, quite depressed/self-loathing protagonist, but it's hard not to love Aaron Swartz' performance, which is a really sympathetic one. The guy playing Dealey is clearly having an absolute blast as well. I think Burn Cycle would be absolutely incredible as a stage play, you would just need to write out most of the puzzles and flesh out some of the plot and character beats a bit more.
God does this take me back. I think I got it a few years later when it came out for Mac. In my head the graphics weren't great, but a lot better than they are (just look at the perspective, tearing, and bad green screen at 11:30 ). Funny how you forget about a time before things like anti-aliasing. Soundtrack still a banger, tho.
@@afklolwtfbbq Oh yeah, I'd enjoy a remake. But, I'd guess all the younger gamers would complain because they never knew a time when the main constraints of game design was file size. We've gotten used to more complex things, so people'd probably get bored. 🤷♀
I worked in one of the three BLOCKBUSTER GAMES test stores in Virginia Beach back in the mid 90s, and we had a CD-i. We had a lot of demo discs and this was one of them. It let you play to a certain point, but it was an beta release, so during a certain spot the game would crash if you chose a certain thing. I used to play the hell out of this game. I ended up keeping the demo disc when we closed, and snatched up two CD-i consoles, and most of the software for free. I still have it stored. I bought a bunch of mpeg movies as well, including Forrest Gump, Rain Man, Coneheads, and a few of the mpeg games, Dragon's Lair 1 and 2, and Space Ace.
interesting! Even if I don't know the game before and it looks very outdated, I'd still love to play this game! Maybe now I have a reason to buy the philips cdi
@@Ttox229 This was 94. The CD-i was, for all its faults, far superior to the then-average PC's capabilities as far as audio playback and 3D video rendering was concerned.
The player obviously knows what to do. The game does not give clues about what items / terrain can be interacted with. This reminds me of Myst. You have to move the mouse all around the screen to glean clues. As technology improved, this style of game play died.
I headed over to wikipedia and read the plot all the way through to make sure I understood everything correctly. This game makes Johnny Mnemonic look like Catcher in the Rye.
This game would be confusing if you didnt know what to do without much hints or anything really in some sections of the game, but no cheats or anything was not around this time of era but i got far into it i loved this game❤ but yeah miss it now too GREAT GAME 😊
Eventually. I’m pretty skilled with point and click-style puzzles like in Burn:Cycle, but Shaolin’s Road features a lot of action scenes that I’m not particularly good at. I’d need more practice with the title before I’d feel confident doing a whole longplay of it.
![[Vinesauce] Vinny - Burn:Cycle](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Wve9UqsfEg/mqdefault.jpg)
Thanks for this. My friend and I played through this one day when we skipped school. At Sears there was a TV with a CD-i unit and "Burn:Cycle". No one objected to two kids playing it for hours on weekday afternoon, LOL. This was when it was new around 1994. It's cool that this is captured from an actual CD-i unit, not an emulator or the PC version.
lol funny i was skipping school in the uk with a reined, took us a week to finish this game, when its probably only a few hours long lol we spend over an hour trying to get that porno in one of the stores and trying to find a way to play it
Haha! That was me and my buddy, except at Macy's watching Star Trek IV on Laserdisc around '91. The salesman even showed us how to use it. I guess he figured we'd go home, tell our parents about it, and bring him a sale.
This was my favorite game years ago. Sadly, it was a single play through, but entirely worth it. The technology they used in making it was reaching for what we all wanted games to be. Thank you for posting this. So many memories!
I am thirty minutes into the game. I remember the CDI being amazing graphics for the time. This game could benefit from a remake.
There's something about the visuals of this Game I like, the colors and the Big amount of meshes in scenery, it's different from other FMVs
I agree. The graphics were by Olaf Wendt, who went even harder into this style with the later game "Virtual Nightclub"
The acting is abysmal like most in that day and age but there were some great lines, "usually i like to keep my knees below my ears on a first date". Quality.
There's a lot of good quotes, acting aside. "You used to have choices but you used them all up". Dealy's monologue about his body and cutting parts off and the craps quote was A+. Vielli's thought line about fruits of his mind too.
Thanks for saving the entire game on here. Brings back memories. Took me 2 weeks to figure it out from start to end when I had the CD-i system back in the early mid 90s. This deserves a new life on the Oculus Quest 2 (or 3 soon).
this deserves a remake. What a game
Great game for sure, but I don't know if a remake is a good idea, the acting in this was mind-blowingly good, a new cast this good will be tough to assemble.
@@Viczarratt Yeah, you can tell there's a lot of stage actors in the lead roles here. In most FMV games the acting is either really cheesy and OTT or you have celebrities phoning it in, and I like that the story takes itself quite seriously; Cutter is this really cynical, downbeat, quite depressed/self-loathing protagonist, but it's hard not to love Aaron Swartz' performance, which is a really sympathetic one. The guy playing Dealey is clearly having an absolute blast as well. I think Burn Cycle would be absolutely incredible as a stage play, you would just need to write out most of the puzzles and flesh out some of the plot and character beats a bit more.
God does this take me back. I think I got it a few years later when it came out for Mac.
In my head the graphics weren't great, but a lot better than they are (just look at the perspective, tearing, and bad green screen at 11:30 ). Funny how you forget about a time before things like anti-aliasing.
Soundtrack still a banger, tho.
have you seen the original art? its a lot higher quality than the game. this game with todays capabilities would be breathtaking
@@afklolwtfbbq Oh yeah, I'd enjoy a remake.
But, I'd guess all the younger gamers would complain because they never knew a time when the main constraints of game design was file size. We've gotten used to more complex things, so people'd probably get bored. 🤷♀
I worked in one of the three BLOCKBUSTER GAMES test stores in Virginia Beach back in the mid 90s, and we had a CD-i. We had a lot of demo discs and this was one of them. It let you play to a certain point, but it was an beta release, so during a certain spot the game would crash if you chose a certain thing. I used to play the hell out of this game. I ended up keeping the demo disc when we closed, and snatched up two CD-i consoles, and most of the software for free. I still have it stored. I bought a bunch of mpeg movies as well, including Forrest Gump, Rain Man, Coneheads, and a few of the mpeg games, Dragon's Lair 1 and 2, and Space Ace.
interesting! Even if I don't know the game before and it looks very outdated, I'd still love to play this game! Maybe now I have a reason to buy the philips cdi
A hero with a bald spot! REPRESENTATION!!!
4:26 I love this track in this game it gives me some great vibes
You can tell you're the most important person in the bar when everyone turns to look at you as you walk past and never take their eyes off you
This was such a weird game that I played for hours at a time 😅
Thanks man! Saludos from Argentina!
Ah memories.....TY
The CD-i version looks much better than the PC version released a year later
That's what I say too. WHY DOES THE PC VERSION HAVE WORSE AUDIO AND AN UGLY DROP IN GAME QUALITY?
@@Ttox229 This was 94. The CD-i was, for all its faults, far superior to the then-average PC's capabilities as far as audio playback and 3D video rendering was concerned.
CD-i certainly had the best video quality out of all those early 90s CD consoles.
Does anyone know what is going on in the story? I am thirty minutes in and still lost.
The player obviously knows what to do. The game does not give clues about what items / terrain can be interacted with. This reminds me of Myst. You have to move the mouse all around the screen to glean clues. As technology improved, this style of game play died.
I headed over to wikipedia and read the plot all the way through to make sure I understood everything correctly. This game makes Johnny Mnemonic look like Catcher in the Rye.
I FEEL LIKE READING NEUROMANCER
This game would be confusing if you didnt know what to do without much hints or anything really in some sections of the game, but no cheats or anything was not around this time of era but i got far into it i loved this game❤ but yeah miss it now too GREAT GAME 😊
No one’s long played Shaolin’s Road on CDi yet. Would you do it?
Eventually. I’m pretty skilled with point and click-style puzzles like in Burn:Cycle, but Shaolin’s Road features a lot of action scenes that I’m not particularly good at. I’d need more practice with the title before I’d feel confident doing a whole longplay of it.
oh boy
I'm not even playing the game and it is frustrating me lol