A Video Game As An Urban Legend?

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Ok...so I've seen this floating around for a couple years now and it just strikes me as odd. Please remember, no one has ever confirmed this but it seems to have some credibility. Back in the early 80's ('81 to be specific) a few arcades in backwater towns near Portland, Oregon supposedly recieved a game called Polybius. It's supposed to be an abstract fast moving puzzle game that was only around for about a month. Afterwards a bunch of the kids who played it suffered selective amnesia (of important stuff like their names and where they lived), horrible nightmares, and a total loss of interest in video games (allegedly one of these kids went on to be a huge anti-video game activist). Adding to that (again, allegedly), some owners have claimed to see men in black coats come in and hook the games up to computers to record playing habits, statistics, etc. (instead of removing coins which they seemed uninterested in). Also oddly enough the opening screen for the game lists it's creator as "Sinnesloschen" and if my German's as good as it used to be that roughly means "loss of senses" (the company itself does not, nor has it ever, existed). Again, I emphasize that none of this is really proveable but it'd be wicked cool if it did. There's more stuff available for your viewing pleasure at:

Polybius

Draw your own conclusions.