Name: Polybius: Behind the Urban Legend
Uploaded: 2022-02-27T10:46:52.000Z
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- [Instructor] Welcome to Part 6 of your training.

Let's meet the device you'll be working with.

On the outside, it may look like an ordinary arcade cabinet.

Polybius holds advanced surveillance systems,

Careful! Users may experience some slight side effects.

The Polybius machine, the future of covert surveillance.

- [Narrator] Between the 1950s and 1970s,

the CIA was experimenting with alternative ways

in order to find the perfect interrogation method.

In 1976, the secret program was exposed to the public.

The revelation spurred countless conspiracy theories

that film producers were quick to pull from.

Movies like WarGames and The Last Starfighter

combined paranoia thrills and video game sensibilities.

But movies weren't the only things inspired by MKUltra.

one of the biggest video game urban legends was brewing.

And it all started with a mysterious arcade cabinet

that suddenly appeared in the quiet town of Portland.

at QuarterWorld Arcade in Portland Oregon.

- [Narrator] And he's kind of become a connoisseur

of the weird and wonderful myths from Portland's past.

As Portland goes, you quickly learn a lot

about what Portland was and the folklore that surrounds it.

which he learned about while watching TV with a friend.

- We were watching “The Simpsons” episode

And I had no idea what he was talking about,

The legend of Polybius, the short and skinny of it is,

around 1981, this arcade cabinet appeared in a few arcades

it was said that you would have seizures,

- [Narrator] So why would someone inadvertently

create a video game that had all these effects?

these strange men in black suits would show up.

And they wouldn't take any money out of the machines,

supposedly, maybe, taking some readings of data,

poof, disappeared, and they've never been seen since.

and with it came a legion of believers and skeptics

He makes a living debunking outlandish stories

So Brian, tell us why the story of Polybius

- It turned out, kind of much to my surprise,

that just about every piece of evidence supporting the story

First, two kids actually did get knocked out

playing video games in Portland, Oregon in 1981.

the government actually was raiding arcades

Third, we know the games were used by the government

And finally, there was a game called Poly-Play.

It was a case where this game was physically removed

leading to a confirmation of the legend, right Brian?

- Arcade culture is extensively documented.

And in all of those issues, throughout the entire 1980s,

We know for a fact that it did not exist.

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