Hello everybody and welcome to the Canaan Ritz podcast, Volume 14, Issue 684,

and today we're going to talk about the wipeout series.

And joining me Leon Cox in this issue, Darren Gargett.

I'm the instrumental version.

Carl Moon.

Hey, guys.

And Ron Jow.

As the American on this podcast, I've prepared by playing through the Twisted Metal series.

I hope that's okay.

That's fine. That's fine.

And Jet Moto.

Yeah.

Wipeout is, if you didn't know, a futuristic anti-gravity racing and combat series.

Mainly racing, but with weapons.

It's Mario Kart, basically.

We'll talk more about that in the gameplay section.

It was developed originally by Cognosis, the vintage studio from England, where they made

things like Shadow of the Beast and various other computer games, particularly on the 16 bits.

They were renowned, but they'd also branched into

consoles a bit. And further down the line, they were absorbed into Sony's studios and became

Sony Studio, Liverpool. And that lasted until August 2012, when they were shuttered.

A few other devs have chipped in along the way,

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