Gaming Forums => General Gaming => Topic started by: NWR_DrewMG on October 01, 2009, 11:16:41 AM
Title: Polybius: The Most Dangerous Game
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on October 01, 2009, 11:16:41 AM
I read about this today on Crispy Gamer. Is anyone familiar with this urban legend? This is pretty creepy (although almost certainly not true)
The urban legend goes as such: in the 80s, an arcade game called Polybius appeared in the suburbs of Portland Oregon. It had a pretty nondescript cabinet, and gameplay which was similar to Tempest.
People who played the game suffered from side effects such as memory loss, nausea, terrible nightmares, and epileptic fits.
Men in black coats came in every so often to record data from the machine.
A month later, the game was gone.
Some people claim to have a ROM of the game, and a few fuzzy shots of the cabinet exist, as well as a screenshot of the title screen.
More info here: http://www.freewebs.com/polybiustheory/
I get a kick out of urban legends like this. Wasn't sure how common this one was.
Title: Re: Polybius: The Most Dangerous Game
Post by: KDR_11k on October 01, 2009, 11:24:32 AM
Stuck a gamma ray emitter into the front of the thing, eh?
Title: Re: Polybius: The Most Dangerous Game
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on October 01, 2009, 11:44:25 AM
Ha, here's a nicely acted video where people pretend to find a cabinet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Emg09EcatE
Title: Re: Polybius: The Most Dangerous Game
Post by: ThePerm on October 02, 2009, 06:53:57 PM
Stuck a gamma ray emitter into the front of the thing, eh?
i thought the exact thing!
reminds me of a Goosebump book
Title: Re: Polybius: The Most Dangerous Game
Post by: ShyGuy on October 03, 2009, 02:03:32 AM
Any photoshop experts here that can tell us if this image has been shooped? http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=11344
Title: Re: Polybius: The Most Dangerous Game
Post by: ThePerm on October 03, 2009, 04:39:10 AM
the logo looks uneven, if someone really wanted to make an authentic looking fake arcade game they should just paint the logo on an existing arcade machine
