Indoor cycling has really taken off in recent years, with innovations made with modern smart turbo trainers such as the Wahoo Kickr combined with software such as Zwift, which offers cyclists who wish to get in some virtual miles in their pain caves a gamified experience as they can user power-ups to gain an advantage when they race against others competitivity over the internet.

It may surprise you to learn that the idea of an indoor cycling game was attempted way back in the late 1980s with RacerMate II for the NES. The game was, of course, unlicensed and came in a Tengen-style cart which bypassed Nintendo's security lockout chip. The game, when paired with an old school turbo trainer known as the CompuTrainer can actually offer quite an interactive experience as pedal your way to fitness indoors.

Join Australian cycling tech enthusiast Shane Miller (or GPLama to his mates) in the video above as he goes on a trip down memory lane and takes RacerMate II for a spin. It's a very convoluted setup by today's standards, but it's quite impressive that this retro setup does so many of the same things as it's modern contemporaries.

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