After an experiment gone wrong, D.Troit (a pun of the city of Detroit) , the game’s villain, creates an army of sentient robots and kidnaps the daughter of B. M. Werken (a pun of the motor vehicle brand Bayerische Motoren Werk or BMW for short). Werken retaliates by creating a crash test dummy, or Crash Impact Dummy (CID, hence the title), the hero and the game’s playable character, to defeat D. Troit and his armies and save Werken’s daughter.