The games name is Polybius

The game is a persistent urban legend concerning a fictitious 1981 arcade game.

The conspiracy goes like this: A secret government project was started in 1981 as a psychological mind control experiment in Portland, Oregon. Only a few machines were distributed to a select number of arcades. They were said to have been visited periodically by men in black suits to collect game data.

Playing the game produces a psychoactive effect that is highly addictive. Players supposedly suffered from:

• Amnesia
• Insomnia
• Night Terrors
• Hallucinations

Then one day they all disappeared and were never seen again. No company claimed them and the government denied them.

But here is where it gets crazy:

People have become so obsessed that this game is real and that the government made it that they are using every obscure clue (no matter what the source) to re-make the game in hopes of proving that it’s not a conspiracy.

They are literally trying to make a game that can alter a child’s perception of reality just by playing it.

This is how far they have gotten:

• A downloadable version online is available for PC’s
• A version is available for PlayStation 4
• A Virtual Reality version is available for Quest VR
• A version is available on Steam
• Multiple versions have been placed in arcade game machines

See and hear one version being played (very strange game)

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But this begs the question:

Can an urban legend become real?

Is it also possible that the government made a myth so irresistible that we now have to make it happen just to scratch an itch?

Are we being crowdsourced to make something that can better control us?