The legend of Polybius

Hi, today I'm going to talk about Polybius.

Polybius was an arcade video-game which has a very interesting story. There are some legends about the game. The principal story says that the game was released in 1981, exactly in the United States. The strange part of the story is that when you play the game, it has bizarre consequences, like horrible nightmares, stress, madness and also you feel like commit suicide.  Few time then, the game disappeared mysteriously.

The game was supposedly made by a company called “Sinneslöschen” (the meaning in German language is “loss of sense”). In the game you should shoot other enemies naves, meanwhile a range of hard lights are appearing intermittently on the screen. When you used the commands, you don’t move the nave, you move the screen, and that is so weird.

The videogame became very popular, it was a kind of revolution in videogames because its graphics. The popularity in some cases became in addiction. People who affirm were players of this game, says that the game contained subliminal messages and that the game produced headaches, dizziness, vomiting, optic and hearing hallucinations and epileptic seizures. They also affirm that some kind of faces appeared almost imperceptibly, and the messages that we mentioned before were things like “kill yourself”, “no imagination”. “no thought”, “conform”, “honor apathy”, “do not question authority”, “surrender” and things like that.

The legend continues: the people, who were addicted to the game then, strangely, became haters of this. In the enclosures where these games were, there were always two men in black talking with the owner of the enclosure. An explication of all those strange things is that the government of the United States created these games, for control minds.

I don’t know if this game really existed or not, but is not a legend that a lot of people is addicted to the video-games. Maybe we can turn off the game consoles, the computer and the telephones and enjoy a little more the good things of the life :)