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When did you play Wipeout for the very first time?
My introduction to it was back when I got my brand-new Playstation in, I think September '96. Wipeout was one of the three games that I bought, along with Air Combat and Porsche Challenge. I remember how :evil: hard it was, I kept bumping into walls all the time :wink: Heh, I've had the copy I bought for almost ten years now... 8O
And how about you?
i first played on 2097 back in 97, and then i got my playstation also with three games on my birthday in 99, wo san fran rush and ridge racer, i watched my dad play on it before me and he was rubbish hahaha
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March, 2000
Wipeout 3
on the two-year-old PSX i bought in a pawnshop
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I first played the 2097 PC demo for weeks and was instantly sure I had finally found the game I had always wanted. It had so much speed, coolness and scifi in it - I just loved it.
oh man....
I won't recall myself a month, but it was somewhere back in '96, winter I think. It was a PC version of this game i played at my friend's house.
I read that the PC version of the original Wipeout was hardly playable at the hardware that existed when it was released. Since I only played it at a better computer two years later: Was it really that bad? Was it just slow or did you get a choppy framrate?
Slightly embarassing but: Yesterday. Feb 2005. Ten years late I think, but man am I enjoying it.
I knew I was right! :) It was back in '96, winter, March (some time after PC release of Wipeout).Quote:
Originally Posted by G'Kyl
I played the game on a computer which allowed quite smooth play, but it wasn't smooth all the time, i remember some framerate chop, and problems with running it, but it didn't bother me much.
If you're interested - here's the basic configuration allowing to run Wipeout on a PC -
PC DOS
486DX/33
8mb RAM
VGA
SB16, SB AWE
I think I'd played Wipeout on a similar, or better PC, that would explain some framerate problems. BUT! After reading some reviews from my old PC game mags, I can tell, that back then, an avarage PC configuration was enough to run Wipeout with no problems, Wipeout was referred to as a good conversion from Playstation, smooth (framrate) and nice. The other thing is that as far as I'm informed, there were plans to release some patches allowing to play Wipe'out" multiplayer. I don't know if they were ever released.
All there is is a multiplayer upgrade for XL, but none for Wipeout, I'm afraid. Funny though, all I read was complaints about how mediocre the conversion was. Never trust the magazines, I say. ;)
I say - never trust PC's :wink:
might have been 96, maybe 97, I played the first wipeout on our first PC, can't imagine it was any later than 96 though since we were the first family around to have a PC and we got Wipeout with it :P Lol, I remember having to repeatedly ask my dad's permission to play on his PC, I was also better than him at it :lol: than again I was only 11 or 12 at the time so some of this may be wrong :wink:
I first played the 2097 PS1 demo, played it alot then forgot about it 8O I was in a game shop one day and went hunting for the full version but bought WO 3 instead by mistake, I didn't really like WO 3 at first, oh how things change.
I played wipeout when i bought ps1 on launch. The console came with a demo (it was called D1) and wipeout was the first game i tried(also happens to be my first play at a 3d game) and i was instantly hooked. After a few weeks i bought the full game.
Since then, i have bought every wipeout game that came out "on the sony consoles".
Does anyone still remember games like ESPN extreme games, novastorm, loaded and the technical demo of the dinasaur sony had on that D1 demo?
I miss those technical demos (the dinosaur and that fish, whatever it was named...) :wink:, too bad that the CD has disappeared in the long run, and I can't find it anymore :(Quote:
Originally Posted by judus
What where they like? Similar to the stuff from the demo scene (with a somewhat arty feel to it) or just showing off some of the effects you could to with the hardware?
The dino demo had a big T-rex model (i think it was t-rex) that was constantly on the move, and you could make it open it's mouth,show it's teeth, make it roar, turn it's head/tail. you also could rotate the camera around the model and zoom in and out of it. It looked ahead of it's time back then. i'm looking for that disc atm, brings back memories.
ahh, sweet remembrance... you can never forget your first time.
wipeout (1) was the first 3d game I bought for my pc. It didn't require, nor it did take advantage, of a 3d card, though. The conversion was crappy in that the game had a real low-res feeling; anyway it run smoothly. I bought, and broke, some two or three joysticks for wipeout. Than i bought my first 3d card in order to get wipeout 2097 working... but when I upgraded my cpu, too, the game run to fast and it was not playable anymore :(((
When wipeout3 came out, I was very sad because there was not going to be a pc version... so, after some time, I had to buy a ps2 :) then fusion arrived... and what's next? psp?
_dave_
well my first experience was early 99' with the demo of 2097 at my friends house but first time proper was November last year whenn i finally found WO in Game
does any one still have these demos?
judus wrote:
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Does anyone still remember games like ESPN extreme games, novastorm, loaded and the technical demo of the dinasaur sony had on that D1 demo?
yeah ive got novastorm, i was going to play on it the other night but it doesn work for some reason
Which OS are you using? It doesn't run under WinXP (it does, actually, but barely), but should do fine under 95/98.