10 Of Nintendo's Weirdest & Most Forgotten Gaming Experiments

When Nintendo revealed the Nintendo Switch, they turned heads by revealing all the strange features packed in, like "HD Rumble" or a depth-sensing infrared sensor. Of course, Nintendo releasing something nobody has ever seen is simply par for the course, especially this past decade.

Ever the innovator, Nintendo delight in pushing their hardware and software to experiences that you'd never find anywhere else - for good... or for ill.

You need not look much farther than 1-2-Switch, a full price gimmick collection where players are intended to not look at the screen as they engage in all sorts of weird mini-games. Have magic duels! Air guitar! Pick up a phone, coddle crying babies... Did you ever think there'd be a party game where you milk cows?

But a milking simulator isn't even the beginning of Nintendo's weird history.

Although the Switch is looking to be a success, plenty of Nintendo's previous experiments haven't seen nearly as much market adoption, tepid market response dooming these quirky "innovations" to the dredges of history.

Being dedicated to dragging up the weirdest and strangest of Nintendo's oddities and presenting them for all to see, I present this electronic museum of forgotten weirdness...

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.