POLYBIUS
Urban legends always captivate us, weather its the legend that Mikey, the kid from the LIFE Cereal commercial, actually died after eating POP ROCKS and soda, or just another Bigfoot sighting. But, there's one urban legend you might haven't heard of, POLYBIUS. The story goes as follows: In 1981, the US Government commissioned an addictive arcade game as apart of a massive crowd sourced psychology project, presumably one relating to the Montauk or MkUltra projects. Late in the summer of 1981, the game supposedly hit a handful of Portland arcades as well as arcades in surrounding suburbs. The game is described as a plain black arcade cabinet, with the only artwork being the marque at the top, featuring the games title. the controls consisted of only a simple joystick, and white button. At the end of the night, men in black suits, FBI, CIA, MIB, the usual alphabet soup of government agents, would come and download high scores from th...
