Psygnosis

I didn't have a PS1.

It was developed by Psygnosis and published by Psygnosis in 1996.

It's apparently an FPS.

And the National Institute of Media and Family had a big issue with this game.

some of the devs at ea were actually playing pests pro aviation soccer that one was actually more engaging and more fun than the fifa games and then you sort of managed to make fifa great again

well i i won't claim sole fame for that but i was part of that yeah so so yeah i mean so i i I did computer science at the University of Leeds, and I was lucky enough straight out of that to get a job in the games industry, working for Sony Psygnosis.

So Psygnosis were best known for, like, they made Wipeout, which was like this, like, hover future driving thing that was a PlayStation launch title.

Anyway, so I worked for them for a while.

Is that the same thing that launched Gran Turismo later, or I'm confusing them?

Now, Shadow of the Beast is a game that has a cult following.

So that was developed by Psygnosis.

But I guess that they were working on that or they kind of published it.

I'm not sure.

Now we got to get into microcosm.

Uh, speaking of Sony, uh, developed and published by Psygnosis, uh, released in uh so

sony technically owns this game

it's in their archive somewhere

yeah it's very

if you know you know right

yeah um i will say the later versions like i believe the sega cd and the 3do version feature so that rick wakeman did the the title and credits But the majority of the soundtrack was done by Psygnosis mainstay Tim Wright.

Yes.

But sometimes it does.

And, you know, PlayStation, Sony is probably one of the biggest and strongest examples of that, right? If you were Psygnosis, you know, in 1995 or whatever, and you're jumping in, you know, the benefit you have there, at least for a period of time, even Warner Brothers and TT Games and Rocksteady and all that sort of, you know, getting involved at the early stage of that can certainly pay off.

But then, you know, Amazon did a thing that it does, and other companies have done, they changed their plans.

Did you see it coming?

No, so, like, thinking about the other games kind of contemporaneous to this, the only other one that I've really played outside of the Dreamcast version of this game is...

The Formula One by Psygnosis, which was developed by Bizarre Creations for PS1.

Bizarre, the people who did the Project Gotham games eventually.

So I've played that, which I think came out in 97, maybe? And then they did 96, and then they did a 97 version.

So, you know, you had some programmers there.

You had Glenn O'Connell from Psygnosis, which is marketing.

And you had Duncan Guttridge from Sega.

So you had an artist there and We kind of talked about the differences of the games company, the modern game scene as well, and like some of their favourite memories.

Absolutely.

So I've been lucky to work in three games companies, two for six years and one for two years in between both.

I think the best one probably for me still is Psygnosis for a couple of reasons.

One is...