Article 31T7B Documentary about Polybius, the urban-legend arcade game

Documentary about Polybius, the urban-legend arcade game

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Rob Beschizza
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POLYBIUS: The Video Game That Doesn't Exist is an hourlong exploration of the ultimate arcade urban legend: play it, and it'll drive you insane. The documentary was made by Stuart "Ahoy" Brown, who has mastered a sternly British documentarian voice and applies it mercilessly to the subject of games. [via]

Of the various efforts to implement the legend, Jeff Minter's is surely the best, though I love the more accurate (albeit rasterized) period stylings of this vectorbeam mockup:

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Previously: Gaming urban legends; Nomen LudiNV7U32leQbE

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