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Polybius: Now with even more Forgetacin!


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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
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PostPosted: Sep 03 2007 11:59 am Reply with quote Back to top

Anybody ever hear about this supposed "game"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_%28game%29

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According to the story, an unheard-of new arcade game appeared in several suburbs of Portland, Oregon in 1981, something of a rarity at the time. The game, Polybius, proved to be incredibly popular, to the point of addiction, and lines formed around the machines, quickly followed by clusters of visits from men in black. Rather than the usual marketing data collected by company visitors to arcade machines, they collected some unknown data, allegedly testing responses to the psychoactive machines. The players themselves suffered from a series of unpleasant side-effects, including amnesia, insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, and even suicide in some versions of the legend. Some players stopped playing video games, while it is reported that one became an anti-gaming activist. The supposed creator of Polybius is Ed Rottberg, and the company named in the urban legend is Sinneslöschen (German for sense-delete), often named as either a secret government organization or a codename for Atari. The gameplay is said to be similar to Tempest, a shoot 'em up game utilizing vector graphics.

The origin of the legend is unknown. Some think it originated as a usenet hoax by a curious character named Cyberyogi, whose real name is Christian Oliver Windler. Others believe the story is a true urban legend – one that grew out of exaggerated and distorted tales of an early release version of Tempest that caused problems with photosensitive epilepsy; the game was reported to have caused motion sickness and vertigo, and was therefore pulled.

Several people had claimed to have a ROM of the game, but none of them have made this ROM available for public scrutiny, a "lack of hard evidence" situation typical of hoaxes and conspiracy theories. Indeed, there is even a lot of conflicting information about what the game is even like. Some sources claim it is a maze-style game while others describe it as an action space-fighter.

Murdar, since you live in Portland, I figure that you could check it out. Just watch out for Will Smith.


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PostPosted: Sep 03 2007 12:02 pm Reply with quote Back to top

LOL. This sounds like a load of horse crap. And I mean that in the nicest way possible.


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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
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PostPosted: Sep 03 2007 12:03 pm Reply with quote Back to top

To me, it sounds like the kind of shit that Jack Thompson wishes were true, but yeah, horseshit.


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Murdar Machene
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PostPosted: Sep 03 2007 02:14 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I've only gone to two arcades here and I don't believe they had any sort of mind rape games, sorry.
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MOGHARR
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PostPosted: Sep 03 2007 03:06 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Shit, I want to play that.


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Char Aznable
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PostPosted: Sep 03 2007 03:25 pm Reply with quote Back to top

So do I.


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Chwoka
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PostPosted: Sep 03 2007 06:48 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Char Aznable wrote:
Murdar, since you live in Portland, I figure that you could check it out. Just watch out for Will Smith.

I live near Portland too!
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Char Aznable
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PostPosted: Sep 03 2007 10:04 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Do you remember who you are?


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PostPosted: Sep 06 2007 03:18 pm Reply with quote Back to top

They made a mind rape game, its called TMNT for the NES.



 
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PostPosted: Sep 06 2007 11:32 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Char Aznable wrote:
Do you remember who you are?


murdar is chwocka, chwocka is murdar.


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Char Aznable
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PostPosted: Sep 07 2007 04:45 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Nah, man, Chwoka is DrunkenOrangeDrink. I played him at TS with Murdar.


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Kojjiro the Angry
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PostPosted: Sep 11 2007 05:43 pm Reply with quote Back to top

wasn't this on sharkey


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