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Sounds like a Chicken Across the road joke. LOL
Nah, it sort of didn't - the Psygnosis brand was clung onto when the company got sold to Sony. Over time, starting with the departure of Johnathon Ellis and then Ian Hetherington, it just sort of ended up being called Sony Liverpool. I'm sure there's much more to it, but when we decided to leave and set up Curlymonsters, the name Psygnosis was literally only on the Pension forms :)
Something like that anyway.
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I'm pretty sure when Feisar mentioned a soundtrack, he meant an official release. I know of a WipEout XL soundtrack (released by Astralwerks), that had music that was both in the game, and bonus material by Photek ("Titan"), Source Direct ("2097"), and Daft Punk ("Musique). If I recall correctly, there was a prize for one of the Wipeoutzone contests of an official music CD for Wip3out (with "Down the River" by Hong Kong Trash as an official CD-only bonus); and a search on CDDB reveals a WipEout soundtrack with groups and songs I've never heard of: "Age of Love" (Jam & Spoon Mix) by The Age of Love, "La Tristesse Dureara (Scream To Sigh)" by Manic Street Preachers, and "Good Enough" (Gemini's Psychosis Mix) by BB featuring Angie Brown.
Now I have to admit that even I'm curious about that last one. :)
Age of Love is by the band Scooter, there good
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Psygnosis was bought by Sony and absorbed into it.
this was covered in an earlier post in this thread
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Not without resistance Lance.
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Nick:
yeah. but big corporations can be so hard to resist. sigh
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Ian put up the most resiliant fight (publish on N64 too) but alas - the writing was on the wall.
hey Nick, how did get your job? tell me the whole story from you being a kid up to now!!
your Auto-Biography here, please!!!!!!
Nutshell life in games.
1. Got an Atari 2600 [correction - duh] console aged 11 - played games.
2. Got a ZX81 computer aged 13 - parents thought it'd be "educational" - played games.
3. I lived by the seaside and was always in the Arcades - played games.
4 Got an Atari St - played games
5. Family started up their own printing business - (but never wanted to work in that) - they started printing video game boxes for a tiny Liverpool company called Psygnosis.
6. School holidays - started tesing in Psygnosis.
7. Did crap at school and went to college for 1 year. Got asked "not to come back for the 2nd year" - played games.
8. Worked in a finiancial co licking envelopes for 6 months
9. Applied for the first tester job in Liverpool Psygnosis. And got it.
10. Tested with Chris Stanley for a couple of years, Shadow of the beast, lemmings etc..
11. Got my **** together and did some bits of design work. Boss designs for microcosm and eventually the Game design for Scavenger 4 (not really a design as such - and it was crap)
12. PS1 showed up in the office - I was mulling around in ATG (Advanced Technology Group - actually making videos and playing chess - but bouncing ideas around too).
13. Had a pub conversation with jim Bowers about an old game he designed ages before that didn't come out properly (called Matrix Marauders) - the conversation turned into Wipeout concepting.
14. Wrote the action script for the Hackers sequence which jimmy rendered and it was used to test bed some ideas - most of which didn't go it.
15. Wipeout happened - just. (Rob and Jason saved the day for the Programmers)
16. Wipeout 2097 went better and sold a load more copies.
17 Psybadek went terrible from start to finish - I escaped into the management team - but out of the frying pan into the fryer. Psygnosis was on a hiding to nothing as a company.
18. Left with 5 buddys and set up curlymonsters.
19. The 6 of us made N-gen racing (infogrames/ps1) which was largely ignored but had some dedicated fans.
20. Went met up with MS and Xbox - loved the console - wrote QR and it's just been published.
21. Onward and upwards.
Nick
UPDATE
22. QR didn't sell enough and sequel is off
23. Curlymonsters eventually runs out money trying to pitch new ideas to publishers.
24. Some of us go to EA Warrington, Sony Liverpool and I go to Studio 33 to work on wheel based racing games. :)
I'm back on the forum. Nice to see you all again.
wow, i am amazaed, you are a very lucky guy!
i want a Atari!!!!
[Got a ZX81 computer aged 13 - parents thought it'd be "educational" - played games.] :lol:
do you like being asked all these questions?
id be annoyed............
@ Feisar
"Age of Love" by Scooter? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought "Age of Love" was simply by "Age of Love", one of the very first actual trance hits back (I think!) 1994. That track still rocks!
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Feisar - I don't mind - but that's as personal as I'd get ;)
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NICK: ZX81!
I`ve used to have one then. Mind space invaders then aah good old days! used to love it!
stin :D
they are a preety old band, heres somewhere i can justify my answer, but they might have been called something else a very long time ago.
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver.../itemid=457218 thats one
and this one, track 11 is age of love, http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver.../itemid=471061
im a happy camper! :lol:
The Age of Love track that inspired Wipeout in the first place (A mad session of Mario Karks winning the final race in the game within 2 hundreth of a second!) was actually "Age of Love" by "Age of love (Watch out for Stella Club Mix) Stella being a classic house track written by Jam and Spoon who I believe are the same poeple.
http://www.wallysgrooveworld.com/sho...lassic/id/1305
Is expensive - but that's VERY rare vinyl these days.
I'll try and put it on my website soon.
Nick
Better link added
http://www.global-trance.co.uk/Age_of_Love.html
sorry master Sensei
LOL. Just don't want anyone thinking I was listening to f&%$£ Scooter ;)
LOL. NOI
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mmmm the atari st, a fine peice of technology.. lol, im wearing my Atari t-shirt as I am writing this! :D