Episode 33: Polybius: The Phantom Video Game

Unspookable

Nate DuFort

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Video games have become a big part of our lives. They exercise our motor skills and problem solving abilities, help us build community and relationships, and more than anything...they're just fun! But did you know that in the early days of gaming technology many people actually feared video games and the arcades that housed them? There were rumors of mind control, injury, and even disappearances surrounding one game in particular...Polybius. We look into this mysterious arcade game's history and the conspiracies it birthed on this episode of Unspookable. Host: Elise Parisian Written by: Victoria Tomis with Nate DuFort, Elise Parisian Created, Produced, Edited by: Nate DuFort Research by: Michael Grathwohl michaelgrathwohl.me. Music Direction and Composition: Jesse Case: https://www.jessecasemusic.com/ Logo by: Natalie Khuen http://nataliek.myportfolio.com Episode artwork by: Heshan Gunasekara Special thanks this week to: Blythe, Bella, and Al. You can hear more of Al on CadaverCast: A Father Son Monster Movie Podcast with his father Jef. Give it a listen to as they talk all things horror and to hear Al speculate on the plots of films he's too young to watch. CadaverCast is available everywhere you get podcasts . You can find Unspookable on Twitter and Instagram at:https://twitter.com/ImUnspookablehttps://www.instagram.com/unspookablepodcast/ Unspookable is a production of Soundsington Media committed to making quality programing for young audiences and the young at heart. To find out more go to http://www.soundsingtonmedia.com

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1:07.3	Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power.
1:15.1	Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can ring tears from the hardest of hearts.
1:23.5	This quote comes from the name of the wind, the first book in author Patrick Rothfuss' epic fantasy
1:30.7	series, The King Killer Chronicle. At unspookable, we know all too well just how powerful words can be.
1:40.4	They're how we communicate, how we relate to the world and connect with the people around us.
1:47.3	But that's not all. They go even further than that too. Words inspire us. They encourage us to take
1:55.9	action. They ignite our imaginations. More than ever, especially as we come out of a year of
2:03.9	lockdowns and one of the world's largest pandemics, there are two words that seem to be on
2:10.1	everybody's mind. Can you guess what they are? Here's a hint. It was one of the top ways we passed
2:18.1	our time while we were shut into our homes for months on end. Video games. Playing video games to
2:25.5	be exact. Those two little words, video and game are powerful enough to fire up our imaginations
2:32.9	on their own. But when we put them together, whoa, what comes to your mind when you think about
2:39.3	video games? Maybe you think about a character like Princess Peach from the Super Mario series,
2:45.7	or Link from the Legend of Zelda. Or maybe you think about where the game takes place and the
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