Illuminati were somehow connected to the design, production I recoiled at the notion that the infamous When I first noticed this new deck online, the nameĬompletely turned me away. “Not that he believes in them – as far as I could tell in five years of working with him – rather, he is immensely entertained by them,” he said.Tarot Illuminati Review by Kathleen Meadows Loyd Blankenship, a hacker who worked for Steve Jackson Games and was responsible for the company’s offices being raided by the Secret Service in 1990, told the publication Mr Jackson was a “huge fan of conspiracy theories”. It does seem oddly prescient, given the ‘twin towers’ shown.” Art direction-wise, frankly a nuke wouldn’t just blow up one building, even a ‘tactical’ nuke would do damage on a much larger scale. “Terrorism was heating up as a ‘headline seller’ without the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation, but we were still looking at Hamas and Palestine as likely culprits for such acts. “The Twin Towers card is actually titled ‘Terrorist Nuke’, which I recall from that time was a concern relating to the collapse of the Soviet Union,” he said. John Grigni, one of the illustrators who worked on the cards, spoke to Vice News in 2012 about some of the seemingly prophetic imagery. Game designer Steve Jackson was ‘immensely entertained’ by conspiracies. All Green groups are considered Communist and vice versa.” One supernatural-themed card appropriately features a “Plague of Demons” swarming around the US Congress building, while the “Watermelons” card reads, “One-time Communists, looking for a new cause, drift into Green movements. Other cards include “Market Manipulation”, “Sweeping Reforms”, “Rewriting History”, “Gun Control”, “March on Washington”, “Combined Disasters”, “Media Blitz”, “Urban Gangs” and “World War Three”. Several cards relate to unrest in the streets, including “Upheaval!”, which depicts a protester punching riot police, and “Law and Order”, which features a cop swinging a baton at a cowering person. All Conservative groups with a Power of 0 or 1 become Criminal as well.” “Increase the Power of all Liberal groups by 3. “Good thoughts are now required,” the card says. The cards accurately depict the US Congress.Ī card dubbed “Political Correctness” depicts two men hanging by nooses with signs reading “used insensitive pronoun” and “ate flesh of dead animals”. Internet users and conspiracy theorists have drawn attention to the cards over the years for the apparent prescience of the irreverent, apocalyptic artwork – notably after September 11, 2001, due to an image resembling the explosion as the first plane hit the World Trade Center, and another depicting flames coming out of the Pentagon. Some sought-after individual cards – such as “Terrorist Nuke”, which depicts a scene uncannily similar to the 9/11 attacks – go for more than $50 apiece.Ī long-time favourite of collectors, INWO, released in 1994 by Steve Jackson Games, is a Magic: The Gathering-style spin-off of the company’s Illuminati board game, which itself was based on the 1975 Illuminatis! Trilogy novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Sealed decks of Illuminati: New World Order ( INWO) cards currently fetch up to $1300 on sites like Amazon and eBay. An out-of-print conspiracy theory collectable card game released more than 25 years ago appears to have eerily foreshadowed current events including the coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest in Washington DC and the rise of political correctness.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |