Polybius Creepypasta
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Rebekah McKendry. POLYBIUS is one of the greatest legends to come out of the 1980s. What exactly is this thing called creepypasta?
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In 1981 the biggest fad for American teenagers was to head down to the local video arcade and drop quarters into game machines. The mainstream media had already picked up on the soaring popularity of video games with youth, with magazines like Time and Newsweek publishing stories about hit games like Pac-Man, Asteroids and Defender. Rumor has it that there might have been an arcade game called Polybius gobbling up quarters, and it supposedly has a dark secret origin.The Polybius legend is the video game industry’s scary bogeyman and plays into a fear that formed at the early days of video gaming: was all this gaming turning a generation of youth into brain dead drones? With plenty of glassy-eyed kids suffering from video game addiction, and mainstream reports of 24-hour non-stop gaming danger, the stage was set for the legend of Polybius to arise.Here’s how it all began.The Legend of PolybiusThe story goes that in Portland, Oregon during the fall of 1981, a new video arcade game called Polybius was being tested in local neighborhood arcades. Long-lines formed as kids waited to be the next Polybius player. Tempers would get high, and even fights were supposedly recorded between eager, impatient gamers. Fans have made their own Polybius cabinets.Then there were reports of strange formal-looking business men that would periodically visit the Polybius games in the area, performing “maintenance” on them.
Some suspected that these maintenance personnel were in fact removing data taken of the Polybius players as they reacted to the intense gameplay. But if that were the case, who were these men, and what was really going on with Polybius?
And why were Polybius players more prone to experiencing strange side-effects after binging on the game, like night terrors, hallucinations, paranoia and even memory loss? Then, a few months after the games were spotted in Portland they all apparently disappeared.Four Items of Polybius StrangenessLet’s look at some of the things that were going on back in 1981:Fact #1: arcade developers would place machines in arcades to test out the audience reaction to gameplay. However, these were rare events that would take place in major cities, and especially in California were the heart of video game manufacturing was based.Fact #2: there was concern about the lasting effects of video games on the brains of children.
Video games were new, and a lot of kids were spending dozens of hours a week playing them. What effect would a lot of time watching bright flashes, listening to the buzz of electronic sounds and, in the cases of some more violent games, destroying a never-ending wave of opponents have on a young person’s developing mind?Fact #3: Battlezone, a game made by the world’s biggest video game manufacturer, Atari, was released in late 1980. A vector graphics tank simulation, Battlezone proved to be a popular release. The game also received more interest when it was learned that the US Army had asked Atari for a more tactical combat version to be used for training purposes for their Bradley Tank operators. A scene from Disney’s “Wreck-It Ralph” showing the Polybius arcade game.In a 2006 episode of “The Simpsons”, a Polybius game is spotted amongst other arcade machines in Springfield. On the side of the cabinet the words “Property of US Government” can be seen.
Episodes of the 1980s-period sitcom “The Goldbergs” has also treated Polybius as a real thing by featuring the video game on posters, and Ernest Cline’s novel “Armada” also incorporates the game into the book’s storyline. And in the Disney animated move Wreck-It Ralph a Polybius arcade game can clearly be seen amongst other well-known games.Verdict: Unknown.