One sure way to give your brand new urban legend a long life is to include the element

of evil men in black from the government.

Such is the case with the story of Polybius, an apocryphal arcade game from the 1980s,

said to have driven its players insane or to suicide.

And of course, we find that secret government agents were indeed an important part of the

story.

Polybius is coming right up, unskeptoid.

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Polybius, video game of death.

Today we're going to delve into the urban legend files and dig back to the year 1981.

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