I want to play this game HAHAHAHA !!! Polybius is an arcade cabinet described in an urban legend, which is said to have induced various psychological effects on player . The story tells of an unheard-of new arcade game appearing in several suburbs of Portland, Oregon in 1981, something of a rarity at the time. The game is described as proving very popular, to the point of addiction, with lines forming around the machines, often resulting in fighting over who would play next. The urban legend describes how the machines were visited by men in black, who collected unknown data from the machines, allegedly testing responses to the games psychoactive effects. Players supposedly suffered from a series of unpleasant side effects, including amnesia, insomnia, stress, nightmares and night terrors. The story tells of how Polybius players stopped playing video games, while one became an anti-gaming activist. The company named in most accounts of the game is Sinneslöschen. In 2011, a Polybius machine was allegedly found in a Newport, Oregon storage locker. An unnamed person said that the game was recognizable from its name on the side of what looks like an old Pac-Man game. The game reportedly vanished soon after its existence was revealed. Dunning considers the Sinneslöschen company name to be not-quite-idiomatic German meaning sense delete or sensory deprivation, and sees it as being the kind of name that a non-German speaker would generate if they tried to create a compound word using an English-to-German dictionary. Around a month after its supposed release in 1981, Polybius is said to have disappeared without a trace. There is no evidence that such a game has ever existed.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 06:26:22 +0000
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