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It's a really good video! It's weird, here in England I don't remember Twisted Metal being a Thing, it seemed to be more Wipeout.
I remember playing this a lot with my older brother and younger sister, the PSX original. I never followed up with any of the sequels though.
I didn't get a PSX until 1998 but I remember Twisted Metal being one of those mind blowing games I'd play over and over again at the Kay Bee Toys kiosk that, along with (of all things) Parappa The Rapper, really sold the system as being nothing like anything that had come before it.
Always good to hear Sewart and the RetroPals voices too.
Wipeout was the home-grown franchise!
Edit: that's something I forget when thinking about old games. They were a part of the culture of the time, and playing them outside of that loses some of the context and impact. X-Men: Children of the Atom is incredible, but seeing that while Age of Apocalypse is a thing is something else.
I think it was perfectly of its time; if you were into clubbing the soundtrack was incredible, it had some of the best tracks of the time. The Designers Republic were hugely influential back then in graphic design and the game wasn't half bad either. I think it tied into the zeitgeist like few games before or since.
Possibly why it lost its audience quite hard, being so of its time it became a relic.
TM's pretty much in the same boat I think, it's a very very 90s franchise with a very American white teenage to twenty something male appeal and it's kind of hard to reimagine it in a way that's still mass market nowadays that isn't also essentially a total aesthetic and mechanical teardown.
"A little history" is generally my favorite part of Shake's videos, too.
Oh my god, that's what that game is in Hackers?? All this time I've been watching that movie and kind of assumed it was some forgotten thing or a fake game that didn't actually exist. I'm a fake Hackers fan.Its inclusion in the club scene of Hackers is really all that you need to point to in order to indicate just how much of a product of its time it was.
They've moved to try to capture the 20s-40 demo with regretful dads or dad adjacents. In your face 90s-early 00s edginess honestly might have difficulty maintaining the same appeal it did to the current generation or at least that feels like what would kill revival talks in any given meeting.
Oh my god, that's what that game is in Hackers?? All this time I've been watching that movie and kind of assumed it was some forgotten thing or a fake game that didn't actually exist. I'm a fake Hackers fan.
Great video Joe! I'm also a fan of "a little history"![]()
It sure is. I mean, clearly it's beyond the original PS1 version, Psygnosis did something here, but it's SUPPOSED to be Wipeout.
I remember playing this a lot with my older brother and younger sister, the PSX original. I never followed up with any of the sequels though.
I absolutely loved the CD-ROM pre PS1 and Saturn video. Great bit of history there.
Just want to let you know I really enjoy your videos.
Nice video, @ShakeWell! Bushido Blade is a truly unique game, and really intense. SmackDown is another good choice, I was a big wrestling fan back then and the game crystallises the feel of the era really well. I need to check out the other ones...