Wait wait wait.... So you`re telling me Polycount is the longest running april fools joke? Cats, Penis tanks... It all makes sense now! (Happy birthday PC!!!)
Did not realize it had been that long now...dang. I was still living with my parents back then and making quake 2 skins, playing Unreal Tournament and the Tactical Ops mod way too many days blending together. I had yet to ship a title and worked at an Architecture company. 37 shipped titles later and working on number 38…
I changed the name to Polycount the day before Quake3 came out. It was December 1st 1999. The Q2pmp name wasn't gonna work anymore at that point. Who knew we'd last all the way through Quake2?! It was mind blowing at the time as no one had communities that lasted that long. All we really did was reformat the site into the…