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Hello, very, welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown.

As always, I'm your host, Simon.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

This is Polybius, which I would absolutely be pronouncing polybias,

and I'm sure I will throughout this episode.

But Danny, who wrote today's episode,

just giving me a handy pronunciation guide.

This is the killer arcade game that got erased from history.

Strab in, everybody. Let's get going.

Formal to the show, by the way, Danny writes it, I read it, never read it before.

We're going to explore it together.

We're going to decode it, if you will, dear audience.

Let's jump in.

If you ever find yourself stumbling around the cobwebbed corners of a spooky old retro arcade, there are two vintage gaming machines which are to be avoided at all costs.

The first is space invaders because it's awful and plays like a pig.

The other is the slightly more obscure 1981 video game, Polybius, and the reasons are far more perilous.

Sorry, I know we're very early for a tangent.

There's one thing I want in my life that I haven't yet acquired.

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