Speed through Wipeout's PlayStation-era tracks in your browser

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Even if you're complete garbage at Wipeout (like me), you can still enjoy of all its fuzzy-textured PlayStation tracks right in your browser. Game developer and web tinkerer Dominic Szablewski has completely reverse engineered all the courses for Wipeout and Wipeout 2097/XL for WebGL-enabled exploring.

Zipping along the pre-set flythrough for each level is hypnotically smooth, at least after you get past the cognitive dissonance of not slamming into every damn corner for once in your life. It's also surprisingly calming when you don't have to worry about outpacing other futuristic hover racers, especially with '90s electronica crunching along in the background.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.