'Wipeout' was born out of 'Mario Kart' and booze

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If you were a console racing game fan in the '90s, there's a good chance that
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is forever etched in your brain -- it's hard to forget that mix of sci-fi racing and genre-defining dance music. But how did it come to be? As it turns out, it was almost a happy accident. To mark the launch of
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, Sony has
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a retrospective that reveals the oddball set of circumstances that led to the series' creation: alcohol, Mario Kart, CD technology and the movie Hackers all played important parts.

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