Welcome to the Destruction Derby Wiki, Here you'll find everything about the Destruction Derby (DD) series of video games. It's the DD database for the games, cars, tracks, and more! We strongly recommend new users to create a Wikia account! 258 articles, 900 files and 6,627 edits since March 2011. 20 years of Destruction Derby - see News section >>> |
About DD |
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The Destruction Derby (DD) video game series debuted in 1995, based around the real-life sport of demolition derby driving. The original DD game was a instant hit, as it was the first ever video game involving demolition derby. This allowed gamers to smash and wreck their opponents, be it in a destruction bowl or a race. The real-time 3D, 32-bit graphics were great for its time. In 1996, the well-known DD2 came, with awesome graphics for its time and unbelievable demolition that was just pure fun. Raw came in 2000, offering a large variety of content, including combining demolition derby with other race styles, and awesome race tracks. Arenas followed on in 2004. The DD series will always remain as one of the most legendary racing video game series, simply because of its awesome exclusivity of destruction. No other series has managed to emulate the quality that DD has offered in all those years. And gamers loved them all too; no wonder why all the PlayStation DD titles received platinum sales. A timeline of the series can be seen here |
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Psygnosis was founded in 1984 and renamed SCE Studio Liverpool in 2001. It was bought by Sony Electronic Publishing in 1993 whilst the PlayStation was still in development, and was part of Sony Computer Entertainment when it was founded in 1994. They are best known for having developed the Wipeout series, and are also known for either developing or publishing other games during the PlayStation era, such as the Colony Wars series and the Formula 1 series. Psygnosis published DD1, DD2 and Raw. Sadly, the studio closed down in August 2012. Reflections Interactive, now part of Ubisoft and known as Ubisoft Reflections, was founded in 1984. They are perhaps best known for the Driver series. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne in north-east England, the founder of the studio, Martin Edmondson, is the person that concepted and created the series in 1995. They developed DD1 and DD2. Reflections is now one of Ubisoft's subsidiaries and co-develop many new games, such as WATCH_DOGS, Just Dance 2015 and Far Cry 3. Studio 33, based in Liverpool in north-west England, was founded in 1996, and were partly owned by Psygnosis. They developed Raw and Arenas. They are also known for developing Formula One 99, and the PS1 versions of Formula One 2000 and Formula One 2001. Studio 33 was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2003, around the time of Arenas' completion, relocated to nearby Warrington, and renamed North West Studio. The studio closed in October 2006. |
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Latest News | ||
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31 October 2015: Happy 20th birthday! Yes, today exactly two decades ago the original Destruction Derby game was released on the PlayStation in Europe, and on MS-DOS. The start of what would become the most smashing and bashing video game series! As a tribute to DD, the background image of the wiki will be temporarily changed to one accomodating its anniversary, based on the Buckle up... and sight tight ! loading screen. We are hoping to see more people take part in the tribute online. Play the game like it's 1995 and relish the nostalgia. Upload some videos on Youtube and tell friends about it! That way we can make more people aware that it's 20 years of not just WipEout (which was also brilliant) but DD as well. Here at the wiki community we would like to thank all the staff of Psygnosis (R.I.P.) and Reflections from '95 who created the first title. And here's our gift to Psygnosis and Reflections!
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