{"id":9346,"date":"2009-10-09T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T10:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/friday-timewaster-cyclomaniacs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:19:49","slug":"friday-timewaster-cyclomaniacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/friday-timewaster-cyclomaniacs\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday timewaster: CycloManiacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday again and we&#8217;re celebrating it with our traditional time-waster. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/LongAnimals\/cyclomaniacs\"><strong>CycloManiacs<\/strong><\/a> is a fun bicycle racing game with an easy gameplay and many elements to make races more challenging and competitive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/LongAnimals\/cyclomaniacs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/10\/cyclomaniacs.png\" alt=\"Play CycloManiacs!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You start off by riding with a cute robot on a shabby bike, but as you progress through the game (and you have quite a handful of levels to beat) you can obtain new drivers, better bikes and hidden tracks. Each race charges you with a series of challenges \u2013 such as finishing in the top five places or gathering a minimum number of items \u2013 and if you complete them you&#8217;ll be rewarded with new unlockable stuff. Jumping is also important, because it&#8217;ll give you points to boost up your bike&#8217;s speed and overtake any other competitors.<\/p>\n<p>CycloManiacs is controlled with the usual WASD or cursor keys combinations (plus the spacebar or X key to jump). The game is complemented by a nice background soundtrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday again and we&#8217;re celebrating it with our traditional time-waster. CycloManiacs is a fun bicycle racing game with an easy gameplay and many elements to make races more challenging and competitive. You start off by riding with a cute robot on a shabby bike, but as you progress through the game (and you have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/friday-timewaster-cyclomaniacs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday timewaster: CycloManiacs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335340,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions\/335340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=9346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}