Specifically optimised for PC, Trials HD's levels will be recreated using Trials Evolution's graphics and physics engine. It paved the way for the highly successful Trials HD and Trials Evolution, now a staple success story on XBLA that has been downloaded over four million times. This was followed by Trials 2: Second Edition in 2008, a downloadable 3D remake by indie developer RedLynx with upgraded graphics and physics and of course the same gruelling gameplay the series is renowned for.

You see, before RedLynx made a splash on Xbox 360 with their breakthrough hit Trials HD the series was only playable on PC, starting as a primitive Flash-based game that did well to distract me during insipid IT lessons.

Trials Evolution may be known as a signature series on XBLA that has players hooked on its criminally addictive trial and error-based bike gameplay, but did you know the series originally started out on PC?