MadchesterManc
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Could've voted for any really, but settled for 3. Even today it still looks great.
Always had a soft spot for Fusion too
Always had a soft spot for Fusion too
Burcombe was working as Lead Designer at the Liverpool game studio Psygnosis and the company had been bought by Sony to create new games for the launch of the Playstation One. Psygnosis artist, Jim Bowers, had already started work on a very early concept demo movie for a futuristic racer game when he went down the pub with Burcombe one night. "Relaying the story to Jim about my trance Mario Kart experience, he also started to get excited," recalls Burcombe. "So we decided to put new music to his video. We opted for The Prodigy's 'No Good' because of the pace of it really fitting with the action on screen."
This thread has me in a full Underworld binge and it turns out they have seriously great and complex albums.Autechre are fucking awesome![]()
You probably know why, I'll just reiterate it though: PS got too big and began to draw attention from some folks who wanted a piece of that pie. The new "tribe" then incrementally replaced those who made it big originally and changed it from within.How did we get from the awesomeness that is Wipeout to a muscular goblina having cringy sex in The Last of Us 2?
Yeah this was a fun time. Basically Nintendo and Sega were ofcourse still around, but gamers grew up. If you were 16, and you attended clubs and events, all you would ever encounter was PSX stuff in the chill out and promotions. Playstation demopods were everywhere in scenes where Nintendo and Sega didn't exist. This was a very smart move on Sony's part. For this audience Nintendo and Sega weren't cool, Sony was the de facto choice for 16+ audiences and this is exactly what happened.
Beaucoup Fish is one of my faves.This thread has me in a full Underworld binge and it turns out they have seriously great and complex albums.
You probably know why, I'll just reiterate it though: PS got too big and began to draw attention from some folks who wanted a piece of that pie. The new "tribe" then incrementally replaced those who made it big originally and changed it from within.
Short version: The wrong people got their foot in the door.
I'm honestly starting to believe much of this Euro awesomeness can be attributed to the old Psygnosis crew. It seems like it was their initiative to lend PS this cool en vogue subculture vibe.
I started with the run-on sentence one from 1994 and it fucking rules.Beaucoup Fish is one of my faves.
Thou shall not forget FSOL!For those (particularly in America) who don't know who the likes of the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers are
Illegal raves have skyrocketed since lockdown, funnily enough even the music sounds like it did in the early 90s
I've seen articles suggest the "E" in WipEout stood for Ecstacy (it was actually due to lowercase "e" not fitting the lettering template)
Yes, although I had a PlayStation, I also had a PC and most of their "classics" like Wipeout, Destruction Derby and Tomb raider I played on that instead. But in a backwards way, more "PC" games like Theme Park and Discworld I had for the PlayStation.Wasnt the original WipEout on the Sega Saturn and DOS also. Sony exclusivity didn't come until WipEout 3.
For those (particularly in America) who don't know who the likes of the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers are
I can't think of a game that looked and sounded more cool at that time. It made edgy 90's attitude like sonic look like it was for little kids. Even stuff like tekken or twisted metal only looked "cool, for a video game" in comparison.
Night clubs in the UK are well and truly dead the last ones were wiped out due to the plandemic. Now it's all about dog water pop up events.
It's a real shame what has happened.
On-topic : NoClip made a video about Wipeout and it's music.
You probably know why, I'll just reiterate it though: PS got too big and began to draw attention from some folks who wanted a piece of that pie. The new "tribe" then incrementally replaced those who made it big originally and changed it from within.
Short version: The wrong people got their foot in the door.
I'm honestly starting to believe much of this Euro awesomeness can be attributed to the old Psygnosis crew. It seems like it was their initiative to lend PS this cool en vogue subculture vibe.
Saw them & Chemical Brothers at Blackpool Winter Gardens right around the time the PS launched, would probably be a few months after around near xmas. Didn't buy the console until later, was still rocking my Atari JaguarI saw Prodigy live for the first time when Wipeout HD came out. I was never the same after that.
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Never went to the nightclub, just the car boot - hunting old Ataris, 8-bit computers and VFD electronic games. There was a stall there every week selling just new, boxed Atari 7800s and brand new sealed games, another time a stall had dozens of new, boxed Mega CD systems and there was always a stall with Megadrive games all flat out on the table - got Mega Man the Wily Wars for a fiver from him. Found my only Atari lab loaner cart in the wild there one day.Sundays car boot. Loads of stalls inside the building selling PC parts.
Closest thing I can think of is Tomb Raider. That was also branching outside of gaming circles.
In the 80's 90's they would use old or abandoned buildings or areas not belonging to them to host the night, all under the cover of darkness. Nothing to do with Sharia law.Illegal raves? Why are they illegal?
Sharia law?
In the 80's 90's they would use old or abandoned buildings or areas not belonging to them to host the night, all under the cover of darkness. Nothing to do with Sharia law.
You can't imagine what this country has become. To do so would require a deep bleaching of your brain.The UK sounds pretty boring
I fucking miss Wipeout![]()
Buy copies off eBay, look after them, they'll be with you for life
Going to disagree that Sega was in kids toys business. Maybe if you were not into gaming back then you thought that.
Going to disagree that Sega was in kids toys business. Maybe if you were not into gaming back then you thought that.
Sony made deals with big nightclubs like London's Ministry of Sound and Liverpool's Cream to place PlayStation demo pods in "chill out" rooms and toilets while you queued for a piss.
Going to disagree that Sega was in kids toys business. Maybe if you were not into gaming back then you thought that.
Leah Betts was the big news death, who died a year after the ad came out. Before Betts died, a few others had died and the press were wetting their knickers over drug usage in the younger generation. They would jump on anything they could.![]()
Best Of 2024: "The S**t Absolutely Hit The Fan" - When WipEout (And Sara Cox's Bloody Nose) Shocked A Nation
"It seemed there'd been a not-very-robust sign-off process"www.timeextension.com
Very much sums up the "games are for kids" attitude at the time.
Putting a capital E in the middle of Wipeout is a crime against typography. Like people writing Lego in all caps, or putting a number 7 in the movie Seven.
The game is called Wipeout.
Gamers were aging up, and sega was grabbing more of that than nintendo. But those "older kids" still would have been 14-16yo during the 16-bit era.
Sega wanted to continue that with saturn, and they did, but sony leapfrogged it by focusing on sports, violence, and things like wipeout. Partially because Sega's big guns were arcade ports that were stuck with a bright and upbeat vibe.
Funny we're still all aging up lol. What is going to be the first great die-off?? PS10 or so???
There seems to be a bit of a generation divide still when it comes to games.
Whenever we talk about games in the office the over 50s in the office usually roll their eyes and make snarky comments and then get back to discussing whatever drab soap opera they were watching last night.
The under 30s at work seem to be even more enthusiastic than my generation was when it comes to games, no gender divide whatsoever either.
I think most over 50s either weren't into games or dropped them once they entered their adolescence. As for the younger ones, seems like the increase in female character lead games might be paying off.
There was also Wipeout 64, which wasn't a direct port and was actually quite good.Wasnt the original WipEout on the Sega Saturn and DOS also. Sony exclusivity didn't come until WipEout 3.
For anyone feeling nostalgic, Cold Storage offers remastered versions of his musical works for Wipeout for sale on his Bandcamp page.
I'm partial to the Chillout remixes myself.
(My dumbass kept calling him Cold Fusion, but I fixed those mistakes.)
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