Check this cool cat out! Just wait 'til you see it in motion

You know that something has lost its cool when the old people get into it. So when your dad shows up decked out in Burton gear, snowboard under arm, maybe it's about time you thought about the next craze...
Andy Ashwin

Which is?
Racing high above futuristic cityscapes on state-of-the-art hover-boards.

Kind of like Back To The Future?
So to speak. According to Acclaim, the world went a little bit pear-shaped towards the end of the 21st century. Everyone thought it was because of fossil fuels, cars and hairspray (CFCs and all that) but they were wrong. It was something far more sinister...

Ooh! Go on...
Enter a small Japanese company called Sosumi (geddit?). In the year 2176 they completed their research on 'gravitic' power sources and applications and patented 'Hover-Tec'. Unable to find buyers willing to pay the extortionate prices, Sosumi searched for a way to force the issue.

Did they create a chemical that viciously attacked tyre compounds?
If only they had thought of that. No, they went for something a little more drastic - accelerating global warming so that the seas would rise, forcing people to rely on Hover-Tec.

How on earth did they manage that?
They detonated nuclear charges beneath the polar ice caps. And it worked. Within five years the Japanese government commissioned Sosumi to build a floating platform that could sustain a city.

What a result!
It gets better. Every major city in the world is utterly reliant on Sosumi (and Japan) in order to survive. Many floating cities are built, to the detriment of the global economy...

Blah, blah, blah. What about the flipping game?
Hang in there. Right, there ends up being a single 'world government' called the OWC (One World Confederacy). Everything outside of their control falls into anarchy - it's all very Mad Max. And from the ashes came a new sport... hover-boarding.