And now suddenly i've become a hipster

Pretty sure that version was too mainstream. The stand-alone version was way more obscure.

I don't think this style of game has ever been appealing, in stand alone or flash format. Could never really get into it, despite my love of flash games.

@WilltheMagicAsian said:

Pretty sure that version was too mainstream. The stand-alone version was way more obscure.

This came out years ago and may have come to rise when the video games for consoles were announced and some peeps decided to look around the web for more info on the game and came across the games and started to share them. Or not, i was only 14 when this came out. LEAVE ME ALONE.

@Meptron said:

I don't think this style of game has ever been appealing, in stand alone or flash format. Could never really get into it, despite my love of flash games.

The game is 100% skill, the trial games i have played in flash format is way more harder than i have seen so far in the videos, so when i have the cash i'm gonna play it, and if it gets lucky; make sweet sweet love to it.

whats a hipster?

@Bell_End said:

whats a hipster?

Wiki is your best friend

@weirdo said:

@Bell_End said:

whats a hipster?

Wiki is your best friend

so why are you one?

@Bell_End said:

@weirdo said:

@Bell_End said:

whats a hipster?

Wiki is your best friend

so why are you one?

I played trials before it was cool

Wait... Are you setting me up for an intelligent and well planned trap with strong sense of social philosophy?

Poser. I played Elasto Mania waaay before that.

I played Excitebike when it first came out. I'm way cooler. Not that I care about that sorta thing. So over it.

@ZagZagovich said:

Poser. I played Elasto Mania waaay before that.

Me too! Elasto Mania (2000) came before Trials 1 (which was 2003 I believe), I played it 10 years ago.

Bike games before Elasto Mania had no physics.

Whoa, I remember that site. Our dial-up didn't give the best experience on it.

I remember playing it during lunch at school, its awesome how far the game itself has come

Elasto Mania motherfuckes

@ludorverr:

So great to hear that people played it. It was a giant hit here but I never hear anyone bring it up. You are the third person to do so here. The crazy thing about the physics is that they are still similiar for these kinds of games today but with less stretching. I was playing Bike Baron for ios and I got hooked on a plank with my back wheel. The harness started stretching even though the space is to little for it to do so and I got a good nostalgia trip. Elasto Mania was awesome. If someone doesn't know what it is check it out here:

Obligatory, "I had a C64 and Kikstart 2" post. ;) And I think I actually saw the TV show "Kick Start", even though I was only five years old when it was last broadcast.

@ZagZagovich said:

Poser. I played Elasto Mania waaay before that.

Holy shit i completely forgot about that game XD I was 10 damnit :p I only played it a couple of times unfortunetly :c

Elasto Mania was definitely one of the earliest games I played on a PC. Amazing 2d Track editors.

I played it when it was Dirt Bike on my old beige Mac...

@ModerateViolence said:

I played it when it was Dirt Bike on my old beige Mac...

[insert mac has no games here]

Used to play Elasto Mania on the school computers.

I wonder what a hipster Trials biker would actually look like. Hm.

Elasto Mania always and forever.

If it's not extreme it's mainstream.

I remember everyone playing that Java-based Trials game back in school during study hall on the library computers. How crazy is it that the same developer went on to make blockbuster hit games on Xbox based on the same basic concept as their original browser game?

@ZagZagovich said:

@ludorverr:

So great to hear that people played it. It was a giant hit here but I never hear anyone bring it up. You are the third person to do so here. The crazy thing about the physics is that they are still similiar for these kinds of games today but with less stretching. I was playing Bike Baron for ios and I got hooked on a plank with my back wheel. The harness started stretching even though the space is to little for it to do so and I got a good nostalgia trip. Elasto Mania was awesome. If someone doesn't know what it is check it out here:

As someone who never touched that game. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING!?

@NickL: It's the same basic premise of Trials, except to lean forward/backward you'd press the left/right button once and it would shift your weight a certain amount, and then you press space to flip the direction you're moving in.

I played Trials when it was a shitty flash game, but I liked X Moto better when that came around.

Nah I played it too, I was linked there from Addicting Games in like 2005ish