• kenE2389
    • 3 years 7 months ago
    • Posts: 283
    		 So I was wandering around the internet and I found this story/urban legend about an arcade game called Polybius from 1981.

    The story goes, back in 1981 in the suburbs of the Portland OR. area, a game called Polybius was installed in a handfull of arcades. "Former arcade owners" claimed men in black suits would come by frequently to extract information from the games as agreed upon before leasing them. The game was wildly popular with lines of kids out the door, but was pulled from arcades once reports of seizures, nausea, amnesia, night terrors and insomnia came out. Supposedly subliminal messaging was used in the flashing swirling puzzle stages (RE seizures) and many disagree about what the game was actual about, more often then not it was an interactive maze game with riddles or a space shoot em up game.

    Many believe it was a CIA experiment in mind control and/or information extracting. An episode of The Simpsons discreetly spoofed it a couple years ago.



    Most others believe it's an exagerated story from when early prototypes of the arcade game Tempest were pulled from arcades for causing seizures.

    Regardless it's an interesting topic, anyone here heard about it?


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    • Guild_Navigator
      • 3 years 7 months ago
      • Posts: 2009
      		 Supposedly the origin of the story lies in early beta copies of the arcade game Tempest that were placed for market testing in several Portland arcades and later recalled. The abrupt removal of those cabinets is what supposedly sparked the whole myth. The Truth is out there,I guess.
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      • kenE2389
        • 3 years 6 months ago
        • Posts: 283
        Guild_Navigator wrote:
        Supposedly the origin of the story lies in early beta copies of the arcade game Tempest that were placed for market testing in several Portland arcades and later recalled. The abrupt removal of those cabinets is what supposedly sparked the whole myth. The Truth is out there,I guess.


        or is that what the illuminati want us to think
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        • GeneralCritic99
          • 3 years 6 months ago
          • Posts: 305
          		 There was a Are you Afraid of the Dark episode based on it.

          From what I heard and read about it, it is said that the game showed up in arcades, and proved to be wildly popular, to the point that it was addicting. So addicting that people would just stand in line just to get a chance to play that game.

          People who started to play the game were being driven insane, and rumor has it some committed suicide. Some players of the game said that there were subliminal messages in the game, and that is what made them addicted and what drove them insane. The game then disappeared without a trace.

          It's probably just a urban legend that was started up by college students, in my opinion.
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