Polybius is an urban legend about a rare arcade game released in 1981. The game was created by a mysterious company called Sinneslöschen (German for “Sense Deletion”) and was a puzzle/shoot-’em-up somewhat like Tempest. It was only released in a few suburbs of Portland, Oregon.
It was supposedly very popular, with people forming long lines to play it. However, players reported strange things about the game, such as hearing a woman crying and seeing grotesque faces out of the corner of their eyes. Players would also have nightmares, experienced nausea, headaches, blackouts or even develop amnesia. Some even committed suicide. Others stopped playing video games altogether and at least one became an anti-video game activist. According to one owner of an arcade, men wearing black suits would often come to collect “records” from the game.
They did not take any money, simply data on gameplay. Because of this, the leading theory is that it was some sort of government experiment using subliminal messages. The game remains in obscurity as around one month after its release, all of the cabinets suddenly disappeared. One cabinet reappeared in an arcade 1998, but quickly disappeared again. While some have tried to recreate the game, no one has ever found the original ROM.
Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(video_game)
very interesting, though not a pasta, still very interested in learning more about this.
why is everyone so rude….
people are only rude because they have no idea what a ‘creepy pasta’ is and they think they do so they come here to tell you that you’re doing it wrong..
this is exactly a creepy pasta..
it piqued my curiosity.. the only bad thing is that li nk is not to the video game but more for different names for schools of fish.. but i am very very curious about this now !!
Maybe next time you could write the story in the perspective of someone that played the game, making it a bit creepier. Its an interesting subject~
Not a creepy pasta,but still an intresting read.
Its scary only because it’s so awful. SHAME!!!
Good, but I think if you made a story on someone’s experience playing the game, and, what they when through it would be a little more entertaining.
Why is this on here? it’s just some infomation then a wikipedia link.
I’ve heard this pasta before. It’s an original one. The incident it true.
Not even a story :/
Copypastas are getting too common, and THIS ISNT EVEN A FUCKING PASTA! IT IS A COPY AND PASTE FROM WIKEPEDIA, AND IT HAS NO STORY!