Twisted Metal Revolutionized Car Combat 30 Years Ago

Twisted Metallic is celebrating its 30-year anniversary immediately, November 10, 2025. Under, we glance again on the evolution of the complete collection, from video games to comedian books to a wild TV spectacle.

The primary time I performed Twisted Metallic was in 1995, the 12 months it debuted. I used to be 11, and I performed it on a kind of in-store kiosks, the place you chose one in every of eight video games to “demo”–usually the primary stage of every recreation, or a part of one. My mother and father and sister should have been some place else doing their purchasing or errands that day, as a result of I possible performed the Twisted Metallic demo greater than 10 occasions.

I bear in mind beginning with Candy Tooth, the default on the character choose display. I bear in mind switching to and selecting Hammerhead, who let me run over my opponents. However greater than something, I bear in mind how appropriately twisted and illicit this recreation felt–like we had been seeing one thing unlawful and underground that we weren’t speculated to.

I might by no means skilled something prefer it. And though quite a few franchises would go on to develop into extra common and extra profitable than Twisted Metallic, none of them had been weirder or extra brimming with cool personalities.

Right here, to have fun three many years of Candy Tooth, is a chronological historical past of the Twisted Metallic franchise, starting with the primary recreation and ending with the newest season of the Peacock TV collection. Time to play.