Petty Theft Bicycle

Petty Theft Bicycle was one of those games you'd find buried in the Flash portals of the late 2000s. It didn't have a big studio name attached, just a simple, almost crude charm that felt typical for the era. You were a kid who had just swiped a police officer's bike, and the premise was as straightforward as the title.

You control the kid on the stolen bicycle with your mouse, pedaling through a flat, blocky landscape. The main goal is to outrun the pursuing police cars and escape the county line. You click to make the bike jump over obstacles like roadblocks or gaps, and you can tilt the bike in mid-air for a slightly longer glide. The police cars are relentless, and the landscape offers little cover, so the pacing stays tense. It feels like a frantic, slightly janky scramble where every small mistake costs you.