Hackers (runtime 1:45:25) - Patreon Version
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Aha!! I knew it was a version of Wipeout!
Chandra
2026-03-16 20:00:20 +0000 UTCYes, but there are parts of the game shown here that were not part of the Wipeout game, such as the scoreboard and the bouncing ball.
Justin Frechette
2026-03-16 19:37:13 +0000 UTCPump up the Volume is coming out soon!!
Chandra
2026-03-16 19:31:46 +0000 UTCThis one is in my top 10 movies. Im still hoping someday you will just watch Toy Soldiers and pump up the volume
Justin Frechette
2026-03-16 17:53:14 +0000 UTCFINALLY SOME ONE REACTED TO THIS! Signed back up just for this!
djKENTO
2026-03-16 04:59:47 +0000 UTCTop 90s picks: The Matrix, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Last Action Hero, The Frighteners
Odd Thomas
2026-03-15 19:29:18 +0000 UTCGod, as soon as Orbital starts playing, I'm in Heaven. There were so many movies that put electronica on the map in the 90's, with Hackers and Mortal Kombat sitting chiefly among them. Another one which often goes unmentioned is Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. That soundtrack introduced me to KMFDM and In The Nursery way back in the day. I forgot this movie had early Wipeout in it! I had the early demo of it on the original PSX, and I played that single track so many times before the game actually came out. When Wipeout HD was released, I was obsessing over lap times from Astral League and trying to replicate their hairpin-turn skills on the Chenghou Project track in Phantom Class speed by using perfect barrel rolls. Countless. Hours! If there's anyone reading this who has any idea what I'm talking about, you have my neverending respect!
Darian Harman
2026-03-15 07:06:15 +0000 UTCThis is one of my all time fav comfort movies. So glad you guys watched and loved it! Still begging for you to see Flash Gordon and The Last Dragon!
ShadowDrgn
2026-03-15 03:30:38 +0000 UTCThe game shown was the original prototype of the first wipEout game on playstation!
Jamal Frank
2026-03-14 21:45:17 +0000 UTCTo me, the Hacker 'society' they created was very much what John Wick did decades later with their world of assassins. It is all tone and style to the gills. It doesn't need to make sense because it is fucking rad. Chandra with the awesome catch; that game they played was Wipe Out; a modified version Psygnosis did for that scene iirc. Wipe Out died off so long ago I am shook that she caught it. Is she a vampire because she doesn't look old enough to have been a Wipe Out enthusiast. Musta grown up in an nerdy household. We were all broke so we had pirated/cracked version of this game back in the day that we passed around.. I miss the sci-fi racer genre that Wipe Out popularized at this time. RIP Psygnosis. I was just out of high school and had built my first PC when this came out and I'm pretty sure I went into IT in large part because of it. The cringe-factor was an acknowledged thing but it was so much fun to watch, and rewatch. It still holds up in that way., it is a snapshot of the a sliver of the 90s, in the same way John Hughes' films were for the 80s. I wish we had more films like it from the 90s but it really is a singular movie. The soundtrack had TWO cds, so many tracks!, and just so much foundational electronic/techno/industrial music. It introduced me to a lot of new music and genres I still love today. Johnny Lee Miller (Zerocool) co-starred in another iconic film around the same time; Trainspotting. Highly recommend seeing it if y'all haven't already. It also had a massive 2 Disc soundtrack of top tier music. I am still mystified that Johnny Lee Miller didn't get super famous but I think he had some offscreen issues. If I remember right he was with Angelina for a minute around this film and then I think she married Billy-Bob Thornton, which was a curveball back then. I hadn't seen her in anything before this but after this she popped off. Kate Libby was the template for the woman I wanted to break my heart for along time. Still is to a degree.
James W.
2026-03-14 21:37:15 +0000 UTCI'm glad you watched "Sneakers" before this one. This is such a painful movie to watch for people with even an inkling of actual tech, but it definitely has an important place in 90's cinema.
Thomas Yanez
2026-03-14 21:35:03 +0000 UTCWatched this back when it was released. Only thing I remember is that I would never watch it again. 😂
Wormtongue
2026-03-14 19:46:55 +0000 UTCI have never watched this film before. And after watching it now, it might be the most 90s film I've ever seen. Nice to hear early Underworld, I love that album.
Sam
2026-03-14 18:54:39 +0000 UTC
