I was doing some arcade research when i found this, http://coinop.org/g.aspx/103223/Polybius.html :smt104 :smt103 :smt119 now that is kind of disturbing. An arcade game that makes kids have amnesia and nightmares! I am not so sure i believe this is true, but there are some people that swear by it. What do you think?
Persnonally, i think it is a hoax, but like i said there are some diehards out there that think this thing is totally real. :smt017
seems like every nine months or so someone posts about this games, or is it just me??? The only game that can hurt you from playing it is SuperMan64!!!
. in recent issue of RetroGaming Times there was an article about this one. You might want to dig up that issue to read about it... cool net-zine sadly now discontinued at the issue 80. cheers
Yeah, Polybius is dug up every now and then on various boards and news sites. The premise is EXTREMELY creepy, but it's so out there you'd almost have to count it as a fake. Most of the legends credit the test machines being placed in various arcades in and around Portland Oregon, which is just 4 hours drive north of me. If I ever get my car fixed, maybe I'll take a weekend trip up there to check out arcades under the pretense of looking for this machine. Be pretty interesting, find an aging, dusty cabinet with the label "Polybius" in the back of some arcade distributor's warehouse. :smt043 Supposedly, a ROM was dumped of the game, but the only "proof" that has turned up is an easily-forged title screen. So as cool/creepy as the idea is, all signs point to fake.
virtua tennis 2 (tennis 2k2) gave me seriously sore thumbs whilst playing with the d-pad - took me 2 - 3 days to heal. nightmares can be influenced by anything, as for amnesia it's more than likely bs :smt011
heh, I remember posting this on the old board some months ago... I was pretty freaked out by it when I came across it for the first time. I even came across a forum discussion where one poster claimed to have been affected by the game, he mentions having scars from clawing himself in his nightmares :smt103 :smt104
I too have encountered some strange people in various forums, one guy who claimed he was part of a super secret agency that is investigating the polybius machine :Hangman: Anyway, at first it is pretty disturbing, but there is no way this thing is real. All those people who actually believe in this are crazy :smt043 Like LeGIt said, the only ingury i have ever suffered from playing games was my thumbs, and that was from constantly playing Gundam Battle Assault 2 and Capcom VS. SNK PRO for the playstation.
I'll admit I had a bad experience while playing a game once. I was playing Resident Evil Outbreak one night when I still owned the game, and I woke up the next morning with second degree burns all over my body. I think there's something truely 'evil' about that game. Or maybe it was just my unconscious trying to end my misery because that game is utter shit. :Hangman: Either way it never happened.
Btw, now I recall (odd as i'm drunk ) that Nintendomad actually said this whole thing was true :smt017
.......... I love the polybius myth...........if you look deep enough into it and crawl into some of the more obscure websites and BBS sites you'll find some screwed up stuff to go along with it..... One website I saw ages ago, and if I can find it I'll post the link, compared the game to a version of tempest, where you control a character who has to climb a spiral tower thing, but it rotates and you fall down levels!! The website also went onto to say parts of the polybius code went onto be used in Tempest (maze shooter, psychodelic colours, weird concept, you never know!!). Some other crap about mind control kicks up quite often, as the game is supposed to induce nightmares and prevent people from ever touching videogames again, which in its self is a catch 22, becasue lets say you ever meet anyone who has played the game, the game has earased a section of their mind where they dont want to talk/remember/or cant remember anything vabout videogames they have played, so in effect, if it ever was trailed, it could have done its job and erased the memory of potnetial witness to the exsitence of the game!!! there something to think about....... But overall the story is good, and with it being an 80's based myth, it could have some truth in it as the 80's were a messed up time, flock of seagulls anyone!?!?!............
Yeah, Polybus is a bullshit story that turned into one of those urban myths, i.e. the CIA was usuing it to control people's minds with, etc, circualted in the early 80's by the same kind of people who used to burn rock and roll records (like reactionary evangelical preachers, politicians looking for a scapegoat to get more money, lazy cops who want to blame the evils of society on violent movies and video games, etc.) Compare the hysteria over that sega CD game Night trap, Mortal Kombat I, Grandtheft Auto, or state of emergency, it's all very similar.
