download it here!? http://www.mameromlinks.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=654 I guess you can download it here as well! good luck and hopefully the rumors arent true! well If they are i had a great time talking with some of you! or go straight to this link!-Death http://modernprimitiveradio.com/files/misc/Polybius.zip
You're all gonna go crazy SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cherish these moments for they are the last you will ever remember being sane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
I can see how this would cause ppl to be anti-game activist, that game really sucks and gives computer gaming a bad name
dont mean to necrobump this but does anyone have the slave2/modernprimitive version uploaded anywhere? its nye impossible to find
^ i just watched a few videos on youtube. talk about subliminal messages and epileptic attacks., seriously how fcked up game is that.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpGXEEa1c5I&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oBTgMnusF0&feature=related reward indifference, obey authority, OBEY, no throught, CONSUME, work 8 hours, play 8 hours and sleep 8 hours, games corrupt, no ideas, and a alien face, do not question authority, conform, SURRENDER.. looks like they tried to convert lazy ass hippies :blunt: i would never play this sheit, lol even now just from watching it my eyes kinda hurt..
Looks like a pile of crap, but crap is the best that was available in 1981 so I bet at the time it must have seemed great. Even if it did hurt the eyes and contained stupid subliminal messages.
To the earlier posters that may have been taken in : Polybius is an Urban Legend and probably comes from apocryphal stories of people having seizures playing early video games in arcades, a prototype of the vector game Tempest has also been linked to it's origin. As with this and other legends, what usually happens is that the stories become embellished further with more outlandish elements (men in black in this instance taking player information from the machines). The video on youtube is of a recreation of what it might have looked like had it existed, which it didnt! However I actually did once program a game that genuinely drove you insane, but aliens told me to destroy it, ahem.
naw thats the new v6-1, im looking for the more basic looking fake where your this orange spaceship shooting blue/green amoeba blobs on a black bg and the 'creator' slave2 tells a story about it in the description section.
Thought something was wrong when looking at page 1 posters system specs and especially the subject of the thread... wtf timewaaaarp!
obviously a game that came out when video games were new so people thought this was evil like rock n roll was at first