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This is one of the creepiest things I have ever come across as a gamer.
Apparently, in 1981, mysterious arcade games called "Polybius" appeared in arcades in the Portland, OR area. These games were said to be highly addictive, and caused horrifying side effects in the people who played them. Effects included seizures, vertigo, night terrors, amnesia, insanity, inability to feel sadness, and suicide. These effects were supposedly caused by subliminal messages in the game. The game was supposedly created by a guy named Ed Rotberg from a German company who's name translates to "Loss of Senses". No records of either the person or company have ever been found. One arcade owner claimed to see men wearing black clothing taking archived records from the machines, but not bothering with the money. Then, after a few months, the machines were suppose to have vanished just as mysteriously as they appeared. No trace of any of these machines has ever been found. The only piece of evidence that they existed is a single grainy black-and-white photograph of a Polybius arcade cabinet.
See this site for more:
http://www.freewebs.com/polybiustheory/
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(08 Jan 12, 01:56PM)Shorty Wrote: This is one of the creepiest things I have ever come across as a gamer.
CREEEPYYYY!
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I remember stumbling upon this awhile ago.
Very strange, with a number of conspiracy theories around it.
/popfiction apearance...
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Hm..that's creepy, indeed.
A case for the team of "Galileo Mystery"
(A totally cheap and stupid german TV-Series....... But it's my favourite show ever though xD)
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Creepy...
* Andrez wonders if it's real
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When I saw this, I was wondering what this had to with flames.
If you get this reference, 100 internets to you!
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09 Jan 12, 06:19AM
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i was playing Polybius some years ago, fucking difficult. no side effects apart my scary music tastes.
edit: a friend gave it to me, it was probably an imitation, since im reading it seems to dont exist
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Wasn't there an old Disney movie based on this premise?
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(09 Jan 12, 10:36PM)V-Man Wrote: Wasn't there an old Disney movie based on this premise?
If you don't know the name, it mustn't have left a really good Legacy.
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Ah, thinking it was Disney is what threw me off.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/plotsummary
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Wait, it wasn't a Tron reference?
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Haha, I knew yours was, but this one was at the back of my brain and I just couldn't remember it until I asked my dad.
It always rawks to have a movie expert in your family.
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I use to play this game but then I took an arrow to the knee.
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(11 Jan 12, 04:22AM)V-Man Wrote: Ah, thinking it was Disney is what threw me off.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/plotsummary
Nice catch V-mang!
I remember this movie too, was some how popular back in the day in Brazil on "Sessão da Tarde" (kids movies that played daily at 14:00 or so) along with "Stand by Me", "Gonnies" , "License to Drive" and likes. Good times...
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I'll now get all those symptoms from reading this creepy shit D:
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This case reminds me of a viral video called Grifter. It's really rare, you have look really deep from the web to find it. I have seen pictures of it from a blog and decided that I don't want to search it or watch it.
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Caught on CCTV!
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Pweaks that video is so odd
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And Cleaner does it again! Nice model.
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there is a fake video about this game in youtube... they say they found it...
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