Hey everyone,
Just wondering if any of you had heard the Polybius story? Apparently it was an Arcade Game of limited release, with subliminal messaging which led to night terrors, amnesia and in some cases suicide. Apparently it was made by the CIA and was used to experiment with sensory deprivation.
You can read more here: http://www.sinnesloschen.com/1.php
And here: http://www.freewebs.com/polybiustheory/
Had you heard this story before? What are you thoughts? Do you believe or not?
Just thought it all rather intriguing.
-Cameron
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I've never heard this, no.
I don't believe it because, well... the obvious reasons but it's a funny story.
If anything it's just more material to add to the brain that maybe when writing your own story that touches on these subjects some day in the future you can extract some ideas from. Which is basically the best use of urban legends for me.
It makes me think of this part in a horror movie series, forget what it's called, where a dude is playing a video game and then the game comes alive and chases him in a parking lot. I was always fascinated with that movie as a kid.
more links
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/roundup.asp [scroll all the way down]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_%28game%29
Or Brainscan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109327/).