Polybius Lives! Part 2 (Premium E325)

I haven’t read all the comments so sorry if this has already been mentioned but a little while ago I was randomly watching NIN music videos (yes I’m old) and saw one for the song “Less Than” which heavily features ‘Polybius’ gameplay. Kinda blew my mind.

Polybius go brrrrr

I can’t believe yall didn’t talk about The Big Door Prize! I feel like they drew heavily on the Polybius legend with the Morpho machines. It’s a great watch.

The color pink as a signifier of evil is a real concept in Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia.

Hey Jake! I was thinking the game your wife could be remembering might be Armor Attack on the Vectrex system. I played a lot of it in the early 90s and it was the first thing that popped in my mind when you said the tanks were in black and white.

The Polybius on Steam is a game by Jeff Minter (Llamasoft), who has been making games since the early 1980s. It was never intended to be a recreation of the original game, but a broader homage to the urban legend. Minter famously made Tempest 2000 for the Atari Jaguar, and has updated Tempest a number of times throughout his career. As such, he was drawn to the elements of the legend that referenced Tempest, and the allusions to Polybius having vector graphics.

Déjà Vu was so good!!!!!

Aug 3rd is my birthday

HEY JAKE 55:10 It’s Spectre, your wife is thinking about Spectre I used to have it on my Mac dos in about 1997 but was released in 1991

Hey that game that is a weird little black and white tank game - It sounds like something I remember. Was it third person, sort of wireframe looking? There's a game like that on an old PC I used to own in the '90s that I think is still in my family's attic.

I'm picturing this game kinda like the work they do on the computer in Severance

I had a mystery game I had to find that seemed to not be real. Our floppy disk games all came from a guy we knew. Hand written labels (piracy existed before the internet). I found my favourites on archive.org /websites that let you play old games. Except for one. The label said Boulderdash II. I looked that up on yt a few years ago, and it was not the game I remembered. Fast forward to last year, and listening to a podcast on clone games. So I looked for similar games to it. I found it as a game called Emerald Mine 4.

I'm 42. My parents were in a computer club when I was a kid so I used to get access to boxes of 5 1/4" floppies full of games. I have a lot of vague memories of cool old games.

Jack must really know their pre-Disney Star Wars expanded universe lore, to know who Mara Jade was

The cabinet “polygonal tank game” is called “Battlezone” I believe.

One day we gotta have Jack, Jake, and Brad together for a truly pilled episode.

Jake unlocked a memory for me talking about Macworld—my grandma had a ton of those cds and I played so many strange games lol

Classico style

There was a PS mag demo disc that had a game Team Buddies on it. Never played the actual game, but man that demo rocked.

Jake should do a Dan Akroyd ep. Apparently, he is mad alien pilled

These are the episodes I want my Patreon sub to go towards.

Another old head episode, I'm outie

Julien's right about the ST:NG Ferengi, but the very much fixed that in DS9. No more hunching, hissing, and rubbing their hands together. They also became real characters from a hyper capitalist culture rather than being innately greedy.

So many vague memories of video games in the 80s and 90s have been unlocked. Fingers crossed for a cursed media series about video games 🎮 🤞

It was in the late 80s and my best friend and I would go for a liquid lunch at high school. That means buying a 40 of malt liquor (colt 45 - works every time) and playing Teenage Mutant Turtles at the mall and then going back to school.

When I was in highschool my brother and his friends were obsessed with going to the bodega that had a couple of arcade games to play a game called Moral Conflict. I have never been interested in gaming but I was mildly intrigued by what this game would entail: I assumed it was some grander, more complex, and politically specific version of the Trolley Problem. I was disappointed, but not surprised that I just misremembered that name, and my brother and his friends were actually playing Mortal Kombat.

Jane of the jungle... if you remember that you had one family computer and used floppy disks to set it up.

The Troubled Teen industry abuse is real. Utah is a notorious site for these so-called 'help' ranches. It would be worth a deep dive.If you need an entry

I love these kind of episodes :) however I’m gonna need some more coverage of all the misinformation flying around (in leftie/liberal spaces) about the Epstein stuff, I feel like every time I log on I’m dipping my brain into a hot swirling soup of conspiracy theories and I need travis’ soothing tones to ground me before I start believing Ghislaine Maxwell has been replaced by a body double 😅 send help, please and thank you 🙏

This is what I needed on this rainy Sunday :)

Nude codes were popular regardless of gender. I remember school yard rumors of Mortal Kombat “nudealities”. The one kid at school total had the code because his uncle worked at Nintendo and he promised to bring the code tomorrow :)

I had that tank game on our family pc back in the late 80’s. I forget the name, but it was a lot of fun for a 5-yo

Was the PlayStation game with the tanks and the polygons (hexagons?) 'Panzer General'

Nice surprise to hear my hometown of Belleville mentioned lol I remember playing Centipede in the basement of the Lincoln Theater when I was a kid.

Travis hair is in a bun, now I have to update my mental picture of him (which is now the Ukrainian guy with his hair in a bun)

I fucking love Masters of Teras Kasi!! Some day it will get the respect it deserves. The sand person is named Hoar! It's maybe the funniest fighting game ever made.

Shout out to metro east Saint Louis area! That story is hilariously melted though.

Jake, Bushido Blade! Dude, we had the same childhood.

Déjà Vu on NES!

thank you!

There is no evidence that the game ever existed.[2] It is considered to be an urban legend or a deliberate hoax.[3][4] Fact-checking website Snopes calls the game a modern-day version of 1980s rumors about "men in black" recording the high-score initials from arcade machines.[5] No newspapers or gaming magazines from the 1980s mention Polybius,[2] and no ROM image of the arcade machine's software has ever surfaced.[6] Aside from mockup cabinets and games inspired by the myth, no Polybius cabinets have ever been found.[7]

Been waiting for this! And for a Eurovision ep

Hell yeah