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All fields of knowledge have their legends unexplained, its phenomena paranormal, occult facets and paranoid. And the video game world is not going to be less. Polybius, according to some urban legend, according to other government military experiment, has been for the community of dye retrogamers a story similar to that of the girl hitchhiker or Veronica. A true horror story with witnesses who claim to have played that game and have been a victim of it as many accuse them of making up.
all started in Portland, Oregon in 1981. There he distributed a small number of copies of a new game, supposedly in testing by the company. The game, according to those who claim to have played, it was vector graphics in it were driving a ship shooting at enemies while a number of phases were developed with a mechanical puzzle. And all the witnesses agreed that a peculiarity of the game was that we moved the ship with the controller, but we did rotate the screen around the ship. The game was a revolution in seen so far, and their look of
vivid colors and abundant light effects was a strong call to all fans of the pixel.
paranormal version
But it would be a few days when they begin to forge the world's darkest legend of the arcade: the people playing that game related nightmares, waking in the middle of the night engulfed in a complete panic or have sudden memory problems. This was aggravated in a vicious circle because many of these players said repeatedly be forced to play the game without being able to look at the machine without putting a coin in it. To this was added the curious detail that the game was signed by an unknown company by the name of Sinnesloschen, which in German would come to mean "loss of consciousness."
Ultimately, the victims claimed that all ended in a terrible hatred towards the game and the inability to remember what it was exactly the same. Suddenly the interest it disappeared and said players being repelled by the booth who had attended an almost involuntary. In addition, each day that passed after the terrible episode of gambling addiction, they said forget a part thereof, to the point of almost not being able to remember what exactly was the game. Hence today is much the difficulty of documenting the phenomenon.
Conspiranoids version
That's not all. We have not mentioned that so many regulars in this game said they had seen men dressed in black suits taking notes on who had registered the highest scores and, in some cases, changing the configuration of the machine. A couple of witnesses said that these gentlemen had forgotten to leave the options menu and they looked at the screen in amazement as they had in the same parameters such as "suicide rate", "night terrors", "amnesia" or "auditory hallucinations."
This brings us to another group of people who claimed to have tested the above Game claimed that they had the impression of seeing the corner of my eye how were "ghostly faces" that crossed the screen or coming toward the camera. But when there was nothing staring. Others say they came to perceive signs with subliminal messages appear and disappear from the screen, so that they could not grasp his message. Some have come to read "Kill yourself" in the message.
Other witnesses said they believed many oir voces bajo los estridentes efectos de sonido del juego. Las versiones en este aspecto difieren tremendamente, refiriendo desde voces ininteligibles, pasando por quejidos de dolor o pánico, hasta voces femeninas lloriqueando y diciendo frases del tipo "¿por que me haces daño?" (esto último da mal rollo sobremanera al señor Powerhead).
El pequeño escándalo
Todo esto se fue sumando al oscuro aura del extraño Polybius para acabar constituyendo la leyenda negra que supone hoy en día. La extraña recreativa sería súbitamente retirada de la circulación cuando, según la prensa local, un chaval joven moriría to go into shock while playing the aforementioned game. The news media was used to convict some video games in general, do not forget that we are in the early 80's, a time when many public figures to video games were a threat similar to the drugs for youth. Meanwhile, the witnesses said that after the incident all Polybius booths disappeared mysteriously in the same way they arrived. However
hand
little understood in the mainstream press would discard all the nuances of this legend to be with the most purely political and alarmist to disappear after the history of collective memory.
Reconstructing events
However, because of what we have exposed the Polybius legend that would be a mere legend, but even today it was because disponde the testimony of some of those people who said they were involved in one way or another this phenomenon. First
versions are available for those who reported being victims of the game, whose arguments account for certain persons who claim to have played the game in a couple of occasions, without ever again because the game did not interest aroused . No one who has regularly played the game claims to have been affected by it, despite all those who claim to have played it without becoming victims their effects match they played just one game or two.
Some old arcade owners have talked about it for various industry publications, all of them agree that the recreational actually existed, and most in the history of black men taking notes at the bottom of the machine. From there was something extremely difficult to reconstruct the information. This recreational had gone unnoticed for most until the newspaper article was released.
multitude of databases including Polybius arcade between its inputs, it being clearly documented their year 1981 as output and Sinnesloschen as the creator. In no case contradict these two details. Another element is immovable screen capture of the game, the only image of the game flowing through the network, which also is common in all versions.
Polybius in the simpsons .... However
the interest in the history of Polybius prompted a group of programmers, based on all available information gathered over the years, they decided to rebuild the game in the controversy, and so, for some years can be found on the Internet this reconstruction "supposedly" identical to the original. Polybius
V6.1: Game
After all I had I guess I will be interested in knowing the reconstruction of the game flowing through the network, right?
can download and install, and activate its "dangerous" effects that are protected by a password. Here are the instructions to activate the hidden menu.
After running the game, and when you see the display screen of the game, you should press "0", so we can access the function menu "high." The code to enter is: 35-34-31-54-12-24-45-43.
In these menus you can configure the various options "High" as the subliminal messages, lysergic funds, synthesized sounds, effects "poltergeist" and activate the effects nightmares, sleepwalking, epilepsy, etc.
However, due to how complicated it is the settings menu, I recommend reading the README file attachment, which is in English but serve as a guide for setting up the game with all options.
the menu that should go after entering the code: S
I LEAVE THE CHALLENGE: DOWNLOAD THIS GAME NOW!
a video game
A INTERESTING LINK, THE COMPANY WOULD HAVE MADE THE GAME: http://www.sinnesloschen.com/
