POLYBIUS: Arcade game that never existed, or mind control experiment?

[Mister Obvious]

The company named in most accounts of the game is Sinneslöschen -- a word constructed outside the norms of German-language usage and grammar -- meaning "sense delete" or "sensory deprivation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(urban_legend)

[Mister Obvious]

I don't find it hard to believe that 1980s Portland, OR may have been used for psychological experiments, after all the west coast is no stranger to such fuckery...

Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California, in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco may be to a bioweapon attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a psychological experiment conducted in the summer of 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.

Participants were recruited from the local community with an ad in the newspapers offering $15 per day to male students who wanted to participate in a "psychological study of prison life."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_p...experiment

[Mister Obvious]

From Steven Roach, now believed to have been a hoaxer...

"(A) thirteen-year-old boy from the Lloyd District of Portland, Oregon had suffered an Epileptic Fit while playing the game, only six days after the machines had literally been installed."

"As far as I was made aware, only seven machines were distributed around the area and no other health-related incidents were reported. I heard 'off the record' that the company made a one-off settlement to the boy's family and no more was heard, apart from all the internet-based speculation and resulting paranoia."

https://cultureofgaming.com/killer-in-th...f-polybius

Was he told to come out with this hoax for the purposes of obfuscation?

[Mister Obvious]

36:09 lol damn, this video is thorough.

[Mister Obvious]

I'm watching it in 1.35x speed.

[Mister Obvious]

36:56 I seriously doubt the "urban legend" was created in 2000, lol. If indeed it's an urban legend, it's probably been going around for way longer than that... but finding anything about it on the internet pre-2000 would be the hard part, not impossible but highly unlikely.

[Mister Obvious]

37:42 1995 is more like it... will be interesting to see if it's mentioned.

39:53 sounds like a planted post... smells like BS.

40:22 the only excuse for it not being mentioned is that a lot fewer people were using the internet back then.

51:08 dddaaaahahahahaaammmnnnnn, this video is worth watching for the hardcore detective work alone, inspiring.

55:22 interesting... alphabet agency involvement in arcade games verified.

I'm still not convinced it's an urban legend.