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Cyberboard Kid

Cyberboard Kid is about a hoverboarding kid with a gun named Cyril Cyberpunk, who must fight off mutant teddy bears in a Jazz Jackrabbit-like smooth-scrolling VGA world at a nonstandard resolution of 288×224.

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Revisional Differences#

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Two different distributions of the shareware version contain differing builds of the game. The CC.EXE in CYR1.ZIP is dated 1995-12-14, whereas the one in CYBERKID.ZIP is dated 1996-01-17. The ordering info bears some differences between these builds.

CYR1.ZIP

CYBERKID.ZIP

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There are 10 game screenshot slides in CYR1.ZIP, but 15 in CYBERKID.ZIP. The slides for these progress automatically in the former when viewing them from the ordering info, but go manually in the latter.

References#


  1. Cyril Cyberpunk. "The auwesome [sic] 2D scroller known as "Cyril Cyberpunk" is now available for download on ftp.pht.com .So if you want to defend the Earth from mutant cyborg teddy bears download "Cyril Cyberpunk" today."↩︎
  2. Cyril Cyberpunk cover or packaging material - MobyGames↩︎