The episode weighs the Polybius arcade story against MK Ultra and other CIA programs. It examines whether an arcade machine ...

An urban legend says a 1981 Portland arcade game called Polybius made players sick while men in black collected data.

It is said that there once existed a game that stole the memories of those who played it.In 1981, near Portland, Oregon, an ...

For those that missed the cameo, an image of the arcade machine can be seen in a Tweet from @Atreya300 embedded below. Loving the Polybius machine in the background ...

Numskull revealed a brand-new charging hub for gamers who like to keep it creepy with the Polybius Arcade Cabinet design. The legend is real, or at least as real as they can make it, as they have ...

One of gaming’s most fascinating urban legends becomes reality in a new novel published on April 29 by Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books. Polybius, the debut novel by Collin Armstrong, transports ...

From the beginning, video games have been burdened with ulterior motives. For instance, Willy Higinbotham made the first computer game, "Tennis for Two," for the annual visitors day at Brookhaven ...

Polybius is gaming's oldest urban legend. It's a cursed arcade machine that supposedly caused illness, amnesia... death. Of course, Polybius is just a story. But the legend is so believable because of ...