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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
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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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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
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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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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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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
Title: The Original CandyWafer
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Shit, I want to play that.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
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Chwoka
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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
Title: Char Classic™
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Do you remember who you are?
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
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They made a mind rape game, its called TMNT for the NES.
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FNJ
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Char Aznable wrote: |
Do you remember who you are? |
murdar is chwocka, chwocka is murdar.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
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Nah, man, Chwoka is DrunkenOrangeDrink. I played him at TS with Murdar.
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Kojjiro the Angry
Title: Scientist
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wasn't this on sharkey
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