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Here's how WipEout looks on Playdate

The dinky yellow Playdate handheld has plenty of odd games already - but here's an even odder proposition we thought we…

For starters, this version of Psygnosis' classic retro racer is based on rewritten code that has been floating around the internet since at least last year for PC, Mac and Linux. This version, in turn, was written based on the original WipEout's leaked source code, posted online by Forest of Illusion in 2002. Watch on YouTube Most obviously, though, this version of WipEout is designed to run on Playdate itself - which means it's in black and white and has no textures (yet, though apparently this is being worked on).

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