The game was hypnotic, so the legend goes. Instantly addictive too, and it had some dangerous psychological consequences for those who dared use it. Amnesia, night terrors, vomiting, and severe ...

ByNabeel H One of the Urban Legends in the U.S. is an imaginary arcade game "I was working in 1981"Polybius"there is. It is not clear whether Polybius is a real arcade game or an imaginary game ...

For several decades, a creepy urban legend has circulated in the darker corners of online forums devoted ... after it appeared, the game was gone. Its name: Polybius.

Other reports found online indicated the famed Atari designer ... and numerous people claiming to have the game, the mark of Polybius is all over the internet. While Ed Rotberg states that he ...

Polybius is an urban legend that has been around for a few decades, with stories detailing a supposedly mind-altering arcade game planted by the government in Portland, Oregon. No evidence exists ...

Who abducted Bobby and why has never been discovered, but Bobby has spent years claiming it was thanks to an arcade game, called Polybius. The Polybius Conspiracy, from Jon Frechette and Todd ...

Editor's note: Jeff Minter's Polybius is out now, but the origins of that mythical game go back decades, and venture to some dark places. The Polybius story has everything. Shady government agents ...

Kids really did play early video games and just collapse; cops really did go into video arcades to see what was going on." While Polybius itself is likely fake, could a video game really cause ...

But Polybius was no ordinary video game. Many believe that it was a tool of the United States government to test one's mental and physical agility as a method of recruiting soldiers, just like The ...