The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I recently learned that you can find a lot of old computer games on Steam. |
| 0:05.7 | And when I say old, I mean old, like Windows 95 old. |
| 0:11.9 | So I started poking around looking for this game that I was obsessed with when I was a kid. |
| 0:16.4 | It's called Titanic Adventure Out of Time. |
| 0:20.3 | I think it's from like 1996. |
| 0:22.0 | Wandering the ship, if you notice a hat. |
| 0:26.5 | Oh, no, it crashed. |
| 0:28.4 | Shoot. |
| 0:30.2 | Oh, shoot. |
| 0:33.9 | Okay, let's load it again. |
| 0:35.9 | Oh, I didn't save it. |
| 0:40.3 | The story in the game was so good. |
| 0:43.6 | So you play as this British secret agent who's been fired. |
| 0:48.6 | And in the beginning of the game, you're just sitting in your apartment. |
| 0:51.7 | It's just like depressing 1940s wartime London apartment |
| 0:55.1 | and the radio is playing. But then suddenly there's this explosion that sends you |
| 1:01.8 | reeling back into time and back to the site of your very last failed mission, the reason why |
| 1:09.3 | you were fired, which was a mission on board, the Titanic. |
| 1:14.0 | For this mission, you were supposed to track down a very special artifact that was hidden |
| 1:18.7 | somewhere on board, which is a book covered in jewels called the Rubayat of Omer Hayam. |
| 1:28.2 | Listen, when you find the Rubayat, knock on my law. |
| 1:32.8 | Now, as a kid, I never finished this game. |
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