Found in a charity shop.
Slightly musty, but apparently still operational:
The 1990 Amblimation World Cup Revival Pool
Hello, my little 2D-animation-is-DEFINITELY-coming-back and AI-is-taking-away-my-job crybabies!
Remember those glorious days in a questionable warehouse in Acton some 36 years ago, when you entrusted your hard-earned pounds to a World Cup office pool organised by two Germans of dubious integrity?
Well, it’s back.
Although you have since escaped to all corners of the globe, modern information technology now allows you to once again publicly demonstrate how little you know about football.
To participate, you must make a sacrificial offering to the Divinity of the Bulbous Leather Sphere (USD $10). In return, you receive absolutely no guarantee of fame, glory, or dignity. What you will receive is the opportunity to watch your carefully researched predictions collapse spectacularly in real time.
Three former animation warriors will eventually stagger away with some money. By then it may even have retained a portion of its value.
There will also be bonus questions. Whoever answers these correctly is guaranteed to receive a pint AND a packet of crisps the next time we meet in person, assuming civilization survives long enough.
And before anyone starts: if Germany wins, it is not because the organisers manipulated the pool. We are specifically addressing certain individuals from a country associated with striped shirts, berets, garlic, and suspicious levels of football confidence.
If, for some unknown reason, you are not part of this very small collection of fringe nerds who believe children’s cartoons are high art and that anyone outside their tiny social circle finds them remotely interesting, you are of course welcome to participate at your own risk.
So come and join us.
Let us lose magnificently together.
Let us lower our heads in collective shame.
And remember: