Still need a copy of Wip3out SE

[Lance]

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doesn't it always?
but that just shows that it's a lively conversation by multi-dimensional people. and you got it started. thank you for doing so.
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[G'Kyl]

Indeed. I always thought the prosaic, or poetic for that matter, aspects of Wipeout to receive far too little attention! ;-)

Ben

[Rapier Racer]

Hmmm there’s only one thing I don't like about WO 3 SE, Sagarmatha, why did they have to make it so bright!!! is it supposed to be frozen or something?

[G'Kyl]

Well, at least there seemsto be a hell of a lot of white (!) snow there. ;))
Why yea, I always took Sagarmatha for the somewhat typical winter kinda track. Dunno why. I wish my manual were somewhere near...

[Roger]

Yes, friends, Sagarmatha is an ice track in Nepal. Sagarmatha is also the name of the world's highest mountain (also known as Chomolungma or Mount Everest.)

While searching for the track description, I came across Radio Sagarmatha!. Ain't it cool?

[G'Kyl]

Wow, I certainly never heard that before. Do you know what language "Sagarmatha" is?

I bet the designers deliberately chose the name because they knew for sure hardly anybody would ever figure out it's just "Mount Everest". ;)

Ben

[infoxicated]

I'd put good money on it - when I first moved to Liverpool there was a restaurant along the road called Valparaiso! Total double take when I seen it the first time, although I figured it was just too fan-boy-ish to eat there for the sake of it.

Nick B came on at some point and told us how they came up with some of the names, like Terramax meaning "earthy" as in terra firma.

[G'Kyl]

Oh no, I see a huge crack in the walls of illusion around my favourite video game universe? ;)

[infoxicated]

funny... I seen a Chilean restaurant! :