I was saving these game descriptions for a possible video feature on Youtube, but I thought it’d make a fairly interesting first blog post. Who knows, I might still do this as a video in the future, but for now, enjoy my ramblings!
It was the late 90’s, a huge boom in revolutionary new gaming was emurging in the console market, but with a Playstation costing almost £500, I was left with my second-hand Amiga. A virus infected the majority of my games and I was left in the dark, with only a handful of games I could entertain myself with, each of them several years old.
My fortune took a U-turn though, when the next xmas, my parents invested in a new PC for general usage. For months, I’d entertain myself with Nick 3D movie maker, however one afternoon, my uncle arrived with a multitude of games to share with my brother. As I fought to use Nick 3D movie maker once again, I couldn’t shake my uncle and my brother playing Doom, and Death Rally together.. But then, they launched a game which blew me away.
Destruction Derby 2 was a twenty thousand polygon orgasm stock racing explosion of crazy. The PC pumped out graphics I only dreamt of seeing if I should own a Playstation. Not only could you drive your car in full 3D, but it would sustain heavy damage, crushing your car as if it were made of tin, sending stray polygons all across the road like totally homo digital confetti, something competitors still have trouble figuring out to this day, (Cough, Gran Turismo 5, Cough).
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Not only this, but my uncles cracked PC edition, installed on the hard drive, would not recognize what CD it was trying to play music from, so we’d slip in our favorite band of the times, The Prodigy, and rave the fuck up. You know what I’m talking about, we’d have our own soundtracks to these games, something thankfully console developers have noticed, making this a core feature on consoles like the Xbox 360.
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The highlights of the game for me was grabbing air either in the canyon or the ring smash on expert difficulty, jumping in there full acceleration with the rookie 4-wheeler, aaand.. (SMASH) holy mother fucking shit, the cars come off the ground, I’m doing a flip in the air, this is fucking bonkers.
Find a preowned copy of Destruction Derby 2 on eBay UK
Destruction Derby 2 (C) Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
