OT - Polybius - Law Enforcer meets 1981

[Lanigav]

I found a very interesting article regarding a certain arcade game that supposedly came out in 1981.

http://coinop.org/g.aspx/103223/Polybius.html

What do you guys think? Truth or urban legend? Either way, I figure I might be able to get some decent answers here since the game appears to have been developed by some German company, and there's obviously a lot of Germans here.

[QuantumDelta]

urban legend i think....freaky non-the-less....

[Shadow Dancer]

That's...............disturbing.

[GurTjaN]

damn i searched on googlee seems like theyre alot of topics on this polybius game but some1 says its just all an gag
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/roundup.asp

still very scary though :S

has something to do with hannibal ? hes a badass

[Original monk]

If this game exists i wonna play it, i wish a game had that big influence on me, i also wonna have nightmare's after a game, i also wonna turn into some kind of zombie (an even bigger one then i am now after playing 72 hours of neocron) So if this game exists i wonna buy it, any game made by the military or cia or sumthing yust CANT be bad :P
And whats all that men in black stuff where they come collecting the info ? is it a brainwashgame? Then i want it also to wash my brains. Does it influences/activates certain parts off the brain so ya get all crazy ? Then i order 15 of them games.

quote: "used some kind of proprietary behavior modification algorithms developed for the CIA"

If this is true i buy 25 of em games :P It yust cant be bad

[Shadow Dancer]

EDIT: oops, I didn't realize Gurtan edited his post to include the link. Soz.

[hinch]

heh i found out about this a few weeks ago did some digging etc.

there is 1 still active some where in some private collectors home edition

whats very odd is when the rom`s for it are checked they contain nothing as in there is nothing in the entire cabinet to run the game they have a welcome and insert coin page and thats it nothing else.

you can find the roms if you really know what your doing on the net.

it isnt a hoax though theres also a video of one in use by said private collector too

[Oath]

Originally posted by Shadow Dancer
That's...............disturbing.

no whats disturbing is an anti games crusader 8| :wtf: :lol: :lol: :lol: what a geek.

[Nullifidian]

HOAX

Jesus Christ, it's amazing how gullible people are.

[Spoon]

Hey, I played that game back in '81.....
It was between the Asteroids and Joust machines at the arcade I played at....
One day, I was in the arcade playing that Battlezone game(the tank game that was just ploygon rendered vehicles), and the attendent at the arcade asked me if I want some free credits on the Polybius game, I said "sure"....
So I played it for about 20 minutes and then left..
I think the attendent got fired for letting me play for free, because I never saw him in there again.

btw, I been hopelessly addicted to video games ever since that day....go figure....

[SigmaDraconis]

Why has no1 bitched at Spoon for his sig yet? o.0

[Syntax-Error]

OMG i played this game and my eyes fell out. then some strange creature grew im my stomach and then burst out just after some aliens kidnapped me and implanted a chip in my nose and then some cows lost all there legs and some strange crop circles appeared.

[nonamebrandeggs]

Argh I'm gunna need a few cans of Jolt to find this fucking ROM.

[Hell-demon]

Ive played a game called Platapus if that counts?:p


This sounds a bit hard to believe. Hey we may have played it, we just cant remember.;)

[Omnituens]

ultimate law enforcer is

E-SWAT!

its the daddy

[ZoneVortex]

Haha, hoax I'd say. Though it is quite logical...

[Benjie]

I think the game was probabally early alpha Neocron. The kids who woke up screaming probabally never left MC5.....

[{MD}GeistDamnit]

quote from that page:

"Text in the game says "(C) 1981 Sinneslöschen" Maybe a German company?"


now we know how Martin and his evil company began ;)

[Whiety Bulger]

I've heard of this before and quite frankly I don't know what to make of it. Any germans here know of any german companys named Sinnesloschen or have acess to corperate records of such a company?