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What he gave me is the first new picture of Polybius that anyone's seen in a long time. I just got a piece of mail from it the other day (and it's what inspired me to make this page) and the guy managed to attach a picture, which I am not quite sure how he did. The mail shows up in an account that fellow writer Bryan and I have access to. I run a text game review site called "Reviews From Trotting Krips" and we have a comment section that allows anonymous people to comment on the reviews.
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NEW I recently received a heads-up from a man named Gerry about a Polybius cab in someone's home arcade. This pretty much keeps us up to date on the myth of Polybius. This is why I played in a band with Kurt: he is the smartest frigging guy I've ever met. I suppose it could denote an erasing or negating of the capacity for sensation, which is slightly different in meaning from "sensory deprivation", but knowing how Germans form idioms, my best guess is that it means "sensory deprivation".` My first thought is "sensory deprivation", and that choosing the word "Sinnesloeschen" is slightly idiomatic. My dictionary doesn't have this word, but taking it apart, "Sinn(es)" denotes "sense" or "sensory" as in sense perception. I'm guessing it's actually "Sinnesloeschen" ("Sinneslöschen" using the German umlauts). I asked my friend Kurt Colville to translate the word as best he could. The screen shot lists what appears to be a German company as the developer. There's also a picture of the game from this screenshot of the Simpsons episode "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em":
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I am image leeching, but I'll fix that if that's an issue. The black and white cabinet picture is taken from the Killer List of Videogames ( ). There is also a screenshot floating around, as well as a black and white picture of the cabinet. Nobody has ever found a ROM, even though some sources will state that there is one. We've contacted one person who met him, and he claims the machines disappeared after a month or so and no one ever heard about them again.Īnd that's all cool. "The game was weird looking, kind of abstract, fast action with some puzzle elements, the kids who played it stopped playing games entirely, one of them became a big anti videogame crusader or something. They're not interested in quarters or anything, they just collected information about how the game was played. "According to an operator who ran an arcade with one of these games, guys in black coats would come to collect "records" from the machines. "The bizarre rumors about this game are that it was supposedly developed by some kind of weird military tech offshoot group, used some kind of proprietary behavior modification algorithms developed for the CIA or something, kids who played it woke up at night screaming, having horrible nightmares. The history of this game is cloudy, there were all kinds of strange stories about how kids who played it got amnesia afterwards, couldn't remember their name or where they lived, etc. "This game had a very limited release, one or two backwater arcades in a suburb of Portland. Arcade games have one big one: the game Polybius. Perhaps you are aware of the concept of the "urban legend." You're on the Internet, of course you know what an urban legend is.