Twisted Metal is a competition where entrants mount guns to their family sedan and blow each other apart. Once again, the winner of the competition will be granted whatever wish they hold in their heart. Calypso, the omnipotent brain behind the competition, decides that this year’s event will have to take place around the globe. It’s one year after the original Twisted Metal and last year’s festivities have left the city of Los Angeles in ruins. It was October 1996, and one month earlier, Super Mario 64 had shown the world that 3D polygons could be used for more than just flight simulators and driving games…ĭoes… does the Amazon really have this many volcanoes? OCTOBER 1996 It has since almost completely disappeared, but it’s always fun to go back and see such relics in its heyday. Even though it isn’t the progenitor of the sub-genre, it showed that with enough attitude, it could be wildly successful. Vehicular combat is a simple concept, but it’s one that caught on in the late ‘90s, and Twisted Metalis largely to blame. I still have an appreciation for the series. My love ran deep for the game, as I’d plumb its depths for secret codes and hidden areas. Among my favourite obsessions was Twisted Metal 2. For example, many of my mornings saw me deposited at childhood friend’s house where I’d plop in front of his Playstation before school would start. In the days before the weight of reality crushed my childhood, I often spent time on other consoles belonging to my friends and relatives.
When speaking of my childhood, I often describe my younger self as a die-hard Nintendo fangirl, but that might be inaccurate.
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