Question, what was that old arcade game that was said to do shot

Parodius

Shit*

Polybius

im not unitedstatian so i never heard of this, but sounds like a cool urban myth

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

>Analysis
>American skeptic producer and author Brian Dunning believes Polybius to be an urban legend that grew out of exaggerated and distorted tales of an early release version of Tempest that caused problems with photosensitive epilepsy, motion sickness, and vertigo.[1] He notes that two players fell ill in Portland on the same day in 1981, one collapsing with a migraine headache after playing Tempest,[1] and another suffering from stomach pain after playing Asteroids for 28 hours in a filmed attempt to break a world record at the same arcade.[5] Dunning records that the FBI raided several video arcades in the area just ten days later, where the owners were suspected of using the machines for gambling, and the lead-up to the raid involved FBI agents monitoring arcade cabinets for signs of tampering and recording high scores. Dunning suggests that these two events were combined in an urban legend about government-monitored arcade machines making players ill, and believes that such a myth must have been established by 1984, as it was referenced in the plot of the film The Last Starfighter, in which a teenager is recruited by a man in black who monitors him playing a covertly-developed arcade game.[1]


on some archived site on the links
>"Unfortunately, there is no evidence that the game ever existed, no less turned its users into babbling lunatics. No machines have ever been found and no ROMS have ever been produced."

but it seems at least two different games have been made judging from some gameplay videos i checked
on of the videos even had a link to
http://www.4shared.com/rar/PE3RTrt4/Polybius_61.html

be sure to run that thru virusscan websites

this shit should not be on this board
you can find the name if you just google the words you already wrote
why do you need spoonfeeding
fuck yourself

>>3590360
Damn you're a tool

>>3590371
yeah, i guess the anons who recreate the regular threads and paste the proper info, charts and links are too huh

>>3590398
Don't listen to them, you did good. Posting the proper info nips any trolling attempts in the bud, and for most of us the Polybius story is old and busted, and doesn't warrant retreading

>>3589557
I remember playing that in an old arcade controlled by the government.

It was like a strange, dream-like experience. You flew around as an octopus in space and shot stripper penguins and shit. Some of the bosses were clearly inspired by anti-American thoughts (a bald eagle wearing an Uncle Sam outfit, a nuclear submarine, etc.) and the soundtrack was mostly public domain.

I still have no idea to this day what they were testing, but it's probably archived in some top secret bubblegum bunker guarded by flying cats with baby milk bottle cannons or something.