December 14th, 2007 by dan
How on Earth have I never heard of Polybius before?? I love Urban Legends, and check Snopes pretty much daily for new stuff. You’d have thought I’d have heard of this, it’s brilliant!
Polybius is supposedly an arcade game, thought to be similar in genre to Atari’s Tempest, and the subject of an online urban legend. According to the story, the game was released to the public in 1981, and caused its players to go insane, causing them to suffer from intense stress and horrific nightmares. A short time after its release, it supposedly disappeared without a trace…
Polybius is my new favourite thing ever. To those of you out there that work in The Games Industry: any chance you can find a copy so I can play it and go MAD, please?
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