Polybius
Posted: November 9th, 2014, 1:23 am
I personally think that this game existed. Google "Polybius legend" if you have no idea what I'm talking about. But from what I'm hearing, I do believe in the legend. There's just too much out there about it for it not to be true. Here would be my hypothesis:
-It had some resemblance to the 2007 remake. It wasn't accurate though, but it had some resemblance.
-When you first start the game, you see those subliminal messages popping up at random, then it takes you into that vortex. This could have been used to cement the messages into your head.
-It wasn't the US Government, rather it was an advertising agency studying the effect on people. The "men in black" worked for this company.
-The lack of evidence doesn't necessarily mean that it never existed. From what I understand, there wasn't very many of them in the first place, and it's very easy to make that stuff disappear. It was nearly 20 years before people started wondering about it, so anything could have happened.
-The company vanished to avoid any potential lawsuits. This was all part of the plan.
-Each Polybius could have been a vastly different game from a different genre. Since I don't believe that entertainment was the goal, consistency wasn't important. That way they could get different results from each of the different games. That also might be why the games were pulled so quickly, so that nobody caught on. In any case, it explains why there are so many different accounts of the game.
-It was not mistaken for Tempest.
None of those bullet points are fact, that is just my hypothesis on what I believe happened, based off the known facts. Most stories I hear about this seem to think that the game never existed, but my gut feeling says that it did in some form or another. The 2007 game is very subliminal, and could very well have been what one of the versions was like.
-It had some resemblance to the 2007 remake. It wasn't accurate though, but it had some resemblance.
-When you first start the game, you see those subliminal messages popping up at random, then it takes you into that vortex. This could have been used to cement the messages into your head.
-It wasn't the US Government, rather it was an advertising agency studying the effect on people. The "men in black" worked for this company.
-The lack of evidence doesn't necessarily mean that it never existed. From what I understand, there wasn't very many of them in the first place, and it's very easy to make that stuff disappear. It was nearly 20 years before people started wondering about it, so anything could have happened.
-The company vanished to avoid any potential lawsuits. This was all part of the plan.
-Each Polybius could have been a vastly different game from a different genre. Since I don't believe that entertainment was the goal, consistency wasn't important. That way they could get different results from each of the different games. That also might be why the games were pulled so quickly, so that nobody caught on. In any case, it explains why there are so many different accounts of the game.
-It was not mistaken for Tempest.
None of those bullet points are fact, that is just my hypothesis on what I believe happened, based off the known facts. Most stories I hear about this seem to think that the game never existed, but my gut feeling says that it did in some form or another. The 2007 game is very subliminal, and could very well have been what one of the versions was like.