Its only really many years later when you have the benefit of hindsight that you look at the idea, the art direction, the soundtrack, the platform
and its all just perfect timing. Those moments dont come along very often.
Nick Burcombe, co-creator, WipEout (1995)
WipEout hit 1995 with the force of an earthquake. Its sci-fi vision of armed anti-grav craft battling it out at 1,2000kph for gold and glory on twisting, vertigo-inducing race tracks couldnt have been further removed from the quintessentially English pub in which it was conceived. Yet it felt perfectly in sync with the world it roared into like a supercharged sci-fi colossus.
Birthed in Liverpool, England and deployed on PS Ones bleeding edge tech, WipEout dropped into the eye of a raging cultural storm that was gripping the United Kingdom. Yet while it embodied the zeitgeist of Cool Britannia a celebration of the countrys beautiful collision of movies, music, art, club culture its impact wasnt restricted by geography. Cool Britannias epicentre was the British Isles. WipEouts was anywhere a PlayStation was hooked up to a TV.
