10 Of Nintendo's Weirdest & Most Forgotten Gaming Experiments

10. Nintendo Exertainment Life Cycle

It's a Super Nintendo in an exercise bike. Yes, really.

Released in 1995, the Life Cycle is a full-on cycling exercise machine. Both models, the home model and the built-in TV model for gyms, come with all the features you'd come to expect from an exercise bike. Adjustable pedal strength, an exercise time tracker, and customizable exercise routines are all available. The major difference is that it has to use a Super Nintendo to access all these features, plugging a big grey modem into the bottom of the console.

You can also play such games like Exertainment Mountain Bike Rally, a really ugly Road Rash wannabe that cheers you on as you take laps and climb up steep hills. If that's not your bag, you can pick up a game based on Speed Racer. Because when you think biking and exercise, you think Speed Racer, the anime series about automobile racing.

Strangely enough, you can't actually steer the handlebars - apart from pedalling your bike to speed up, you steer in all games by using your thumb on a crummy D-pad attached to the handlebars.