What if there was a video game so addictive, so revolutionary, that it had the power to drive players mad? What if when you played it, someone was always watching? And what if some people who played the game disappeared, never to be seen again? This is the story of Polybius.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
What are the origins of the Polybius legend?
Okay, so while Bobby doesn't exist, there are other people who, this is no spoiler, they really do exist. But they have things to say that are very similar to what Bobby said. So there's one anonymous user who claimed that Polybius was real, and not just that he played it, but he actually worked on it. The person who's known only by his online handle, PRG017, said,
claimed to have been a programmer with Sega's arcade division. He said that they received a request one day to create a game from a secret organization called Cineslotion, who had some level of governmental power. And though they were not sure from what country, it's really interesting that Sega can just be like, it might be the US. It could be, I don't know, someone nefarious.
But Cineslotion is who tasked them to create this game. Now, this user, PRG017, claims that they were given a project sheet and a map of the human brain and instructions on how to stimulate those areas of the brain and asked to incorporate it into a video game. They went on to say that the game took a long time to create. Obviously, you're bringing in like the maps of the brain here.
And it utilized technology far beyond what was available at the time. They described the game as a puzzler game, but with other odd elements to it. Apparently, the game testers experienced strange symptoms such as memory loss and other sorts of things that were happening, like the nausea that we have reported of people who played the game.
So they were apparently very effective at the project that they didn't even know what the purpose was. When the game was done, those involved signed a document promising secrecy, which might explain why this person was anonymous.
But while this sounds incredibly interesting and fits right into that conspiracy of the government trying to use video games to see if they could control people's minds and perhaps this Sega arcade division was successful in it, This recollection from PRG 017 is extremely vague. It's very poorly written.
And the timeline that this person sets for does have some issues leading people to deduce that it was very likely just a fraudulent testimony.
It is interesting, though. You can find it online and read it. It has a few things. You know, you always look for sort of random facts that make you think there might be some veracity. One of them is that this guy is working for Sega. He later works on the Sega CD, which was if you played video games back in the day, they came in cartridges. And the cartridge basically had a motherboard in it.
You probably all remember having to blow the cartridge out to get the dust off the motherboard so that it would play. The whole game is on the motherboard. And that's the way games played. But cartridges had limitations, memory being a big one. Well, Sega came out with a Sega CD and this was a revolution because for the first time they were going to use CDs for games, not cartridges.
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