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General discussionWipe Out is 20 years old : the original design document made public(22 posts)(22 posts)
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Posted September 30, 2015
How time flies by.... As a big gift for the anniverasry of the first Wipe Out, the designer has released the official game design document of this classic good old game, lots of interesting infos in it (didn't even know there was some kind of story):

You can download the pdf here:
http://www.cremademono.com/WipeoutDesignDocument.pdf

If the link is down, then there is the facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1160729017289706&id=515613488467932

Aside from that, what are your memories from back then?

Personnaly, I remember when we were too poor to buy the game so we played the official demo which was on cd provided by the official Playstation magazine. Funnily enough, I played more of "High-Octane" (a PC clone) than the original ^o^
Posted September 30, 2015
I remember the game being ridiculously beautiful and smooth. Of course the first games, from what I recall, were from the era when 3D accelerated cards were just starting to become mainstream. So wipe out, though I don't know which one but it would've been 1996/1997, was definitely one of the first games I saw that ran on a separate gpu. What struct me most was the ridiculously smooth framerate. A couple of years later I could also join in on the fun with my 8mb Voodoo 2 :D

Also, kudos on the Hi-Octane mention! I played that endlessly at one point. It was quite the improvement on the original test drive :)
Posted September 30, 2015
Wipe Out. A game that I was constantly seeing people play back in the day, but one that I never played to any serious extent (just messed around a bit with the original and one of the PSP releases). Nowadays, I still haven't given it any serious attention.
Posted September 30, 2015
It's been so long already?

My fondest memory of it is really recent. Someone made a website where we could navigate the game's levels as we pleased. It was awesome, but I don't remember the link anymore.
Posted September 30, 2015
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catpower1980: http://www.cremademono.com/WipeoutDesignDocument.pdf
Off Topic fact: that webpage name literally means "monkey cream".

Back on topic, this is so cool! Thanks for sharing.
Posted September 30, 2015
It's longer than I expected.
Not a phrase I often use.
Posted September 30, 2015
I got Wipeout 1 with the PS1 ; )
I liked the game, loved the music, but it was HARD and I was absolute s**t at it XD
Posted September 30, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSrdCaSVkXg
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Matewis: I remember the game being ridiculously beautiful and smooth. Of course the first games, from what I recall, were from the era when 3D accelerated cards were just starting to become mainstream. So wipe out, though I don't know which one but it would've been 1996/1997, was definitely one of the first games I saw that ran on a separate gpu. What struct me most was the ridiculously smooth framerate. A couple of years later I could also join in on the fun with my 8mb Voodoo 2 :D
Must have been WipEout XL/2097, the original WipEout was never 3D accellerated AFAIK.
Posted September 30, 2015
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Strijkbout: Must have been WipEout XL/2097, the original WipEout was never 3D accellerated AFAIK.
The original Wipeout on PC was a DOS game, had no 3DFX support, and looked like utter ass.

Wipeout 2097 looked beautiful though.
Posted October 01, 2015
Wow, this is a great find! I've always been a fan the Wipeout series ever since the PSX era. It's really a shame that Studio Liverpoo/Psygnosis doesn't exist anymore.

On the bright side, there is this new Wipeout-like game called SlipStream GX. The beta is currently out, but I don't know if the developers are still working on the game.
Post edited October 01, 2015 by IronArcturus
Posted October 01, 2015
my wipeout memories are this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esHpGuBkGys
Posted October 01, 2015
Played it on my OpenPandora sometimes and have never gotten very far.
This game is ridiculously hard.
Post edited October 01, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted October 01, 2015
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Smannesman: It's longer than I expected.
Not a phrase I often use.
You didn't stay awake this time ? ;-)

Wipeout. Fond memories. This game had the greatest feel at the time.
Thanks for the highlights.
Post edited October 01, 2015 by Potzato
Posted October 01, 2015
Thanks for sharing this one!

Had to start instantly the OST for it - the typical techno era

Btw. anyone in Bullfrogs "Hi-octane"? It was a clone of the origin wipeout
But I really liked this game, maybe because Hi octane was a little more forgiving at the diffculty level
and my PC in this times was able to render it in shiny svga the game was already out some time when i got mine
Additionally it had a great spliscreen mode.
Post edited October 01, 2015 by mcleodone
Posted October 01, 2015
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catpower1980: How time flies by.... As a big gift for the anniverasry of the first Wipe Out, the designer has released the official game design document of this classic good old game, lots of interesting infos in it (didn't even know there was some kind of story):

You can download the pdf here:
http://www.cremademono.com/WipeoutDesignDocument.pdf

If the link is down, then there is the facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1160729017289706&id=515613488467932

Aside from that, what are your memories from back then?

Personnaly, I remember when we were too poor to buy the game so we played the official demo which was on cd provided by the official Playstation magazine. Funnily enough, I played more of "High-Octane" (a PC clone) than the original ^o^
Thks 4 the info, now we all know how the game actually came abt.
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