Blockbuster Playstation Challenge

Used in Blockbuster video stores for qualifying rounds of the 1997 Blockbuster Playstation Challenge.

Disc contents contain a single lap race in the Ps1 game Rage Racer.

Event took place in stores during July 21st and August 3rd, and the final took place on the 27th August.

Entrants were required to finish the lap within a set time, and those with the fastest lap for each store won entry into the finals placed in london and held at the Sports Cafe near Covent Gardens. Finals were covered on Newsround and Sky News, and featured guests such as Dominic Diamond from the hit 90s tv show Gamesmaster, and the 90s female adult sensation known as Jo Guest. Entrants were required to play this time on the newly released game Crash Bandicoot 2.

Winner was Aaron Nole, and extended info on the event has been supplied by 3rd place winner Stuart Morrison. The winner collected a copy of Crash Bandicoot 2, and a trip to San Fransico. He later appeared on an episode during the final series of Gamesmaster.