![]() Urban legends are like any other story – if you want to know how a society feels, listen to what people are telling each other. It’s an indicator of current events and attitudes.You don’t want to end up like those poor kids in Portland, do you? How many were brainwashed by “Polybius”? Decades later, are people still suffering the mind-numbing effects? The “Polybius” story meets the criteria of a good urban legend: The ‘Polybius’ urban legend was hardly fiction it was nearly a docudrama.” All hail ‘Polybius’ “Games were physically harming players, giving them headaches and nausea and government agents actually were lurking in every arcade shadow. “How much more raw material was needed for teenagers to see a pattern?” Dunning writes. government was using commercial video games for training purposes, such as the tank simulator game “ Battlezone.” Arcades were a popular place to sell stolen goods and drugs, and authorities set up at least one fake arcade in Portland equipped with cameras to catch the criminals.Some operators were using the video games for gambling purposes by installing illegal counters in the back of the machines. Government agents were investigating arcades in the Portland region during this time period.In the 1980s, people were being affected by photosensitive epilepsy triggered by video games.The “Polybius” legend, while most likely bogus, has its roots in the truth, according research by skeptic podcaster Brian Dunning: If that’s the case, where is the myriad of former “Polybius” players, waiting to debunk my theory that the game doesn’t exist? ‘Polybius’ is true(ish) So, according to legend, the game is very popular on location, and has people lining up to play. Sources: Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I and Skeptoid. “That’s not-quite-idiomatic German for ‘sense delete,’ or ‘sensory deprivation’ likely what a non-German speaker would come up with if they tried to create a new word using an English-to-German dictionary.” (Perhaps that’s the punchline of the whole “Polybius” legend.) Sinneslöschen He was known for seeking verification of historical events by citing more than one witness. An ancient Greek historian who wrote “The Histories,” which document Rome’s conflict against Carthage.
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