Twisted Metal (1995 video game)

Twisted Metal
North American PlayStation box art, depicting Needles Kane and his ice cream truck
DevelopersSony Interactive Studios America
SingleTrac
Publishers
DirectorMichael D. Jackson
Producers
  • Scott Campbell
  • Allan Becker
Designers
Programmers
  • Steve Poulson
  • Travis Hilton
  • Jay Barnson
Composers
  • Chuck E. Myers
  • Tom Hopkins
  • Lance Lenhart
SeriesTwisted Metal
PlatformsPlayStation, Windows
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: November 10, 1995
  • EU: January 16, 1996
  • JP: November 15, 1996
Windows
  • JP: December 21, 1996
GenreVehicular combat
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Twisted Metal is a 1995 vehicular combat video game developed by Sony Interactive Studios America and SingleTrac, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The game's plot is centered on the titular competition in which various drivers in modified vehicles must destroy the other vehicles in an attempt to be the last one alive. The winner meets the organizer of the competition, a mysterious man named Calypso, who will grant the winner a single wish, regardless of price, size or even reality. A commercial success, it was followed up by a sequel, Twisted Metal 2 (1996), as part of the Twisted Metal series.