Twisted Metal is a vehicular combat video game developed by SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation.  Released on November 5, 1995 in North America the game is the first installment in the Twisted Metal series.

The game places players in control of various modified vehicles in a competition to destroy all other vehicles in a contest to be the last one alive.   Once a year a mysterious man named Calypso who lives beneath the city of Los Angeles holds a competition called “Twisted Metal” which places contestants against each other in a battle to the death.  This year’s contest takes place on Christmas Eve of 2005 on the streets of Los Angeles and is the tenth annual running of the competition. The winner of the competition gets to meet the organizer of the competition, Calypso, who will reward the winner with a single wish.