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Sitting here with noise cancelling headphones on, playing POLYBIUS: The Game That Does Not Exist on VLC player. This particular documentary truly does dig in to find out if POLYBIUS ever existed or not (SPOILER: it didn't).

I always loved the lore, hearing about it in the 1980s (in my Atari 2600 days (hence my UN x2600)). That, and the ET game being dumped in the desert, were things discussed over pixel-lit rooms with crickets chirping out the window.

In fact, no one was never really clear on what POLYBIUS was called back when. People either got somewhere near the correct pronunciation, or sometimes spot-on. Of course some teenagers would take it upon themselves to embellish what did/didn't happen with people who played POLYBIUS.

OK gonna enjoy this. Typing is distracting.

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