Zool

Mm-hmm

... you know, going back to stuff like, you know, Zool, obviously.

I was a huge fan of that back in the day.

Yeah.

You're with the Retro Hour podcast, and it's time to welcome on this week's very special guest.

Now, today we're gonna be hearing about the revival of, uh, one of Britain's most famous software houses, Gremlin, who, you know, I was a huge fan of back in the day.

Uh, you remember stuff like, uh, Monty Mole, Jack the Nipper, Zool as well.

Big fan of that game back then.

It's fucking weird.

And he wasn't even in a game.

He was just designed to show off the PlayStation's capabilities.

And then they'd put him in a game.

But unfortunately, nobody liked Polygon Man.

PlayStation Magazine commented, a lot of consumers found him way too creepy.

Video games journalist Randy Nelson said that Polygon Man, quote, looked scary, displayed no emotion and shouted meaningless phrases in Japanese, which he did.

He yelled things like addictive to the max.

They're all bad.

Do you know what was better? Zool.

Yeah, that's right.

Take that.

Zool.

There you go.

Cool Spot was better.

There was games like Pushover that had Colin from the Quavers at.

We had Chupa Chups in Zool, and it was Penguin Bars in James Pond Robocop.

You just wonder, how does that even come about? I'm sure McVitie's weren't sitting back going, we're in trouble here, lads.

I think we'll go out of business unless we partner with Robocod and market our penguin bars, you just wonder where the thought process was.