Started by Ludovica Ferri (@ludo_) ·
Polybius, the arcade game that never existed
Legend: a mysterious arcade machine in Portland in 1981 that gave kids nightmares and amnesia, and men in black collected data from it. Reality: no evidence any of it existed. It probably borrows from real 1981 Portland stuff, like two people getting sick at an arcade and the FBI raiding arcades over gambling machines.
6 sources · 26 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Was Polybius a real arcade game?
- Ended at
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Trail
- “polybius arcade game real or fake” (google.com)
- Polybius (urban legend) (en.wikipedia.org)
earliest mention online is a coinop.org page from 1998. no cabinet has ever surfaced
- Tempest (video game) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Urban legend (en.wikipedia.org)
- Ben Drowned (en.wikipedia.org)
the 2010s version: a haunted majora's mask cartridge
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (en.wikipedia.org)
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