This strange game was released in 80's , it is said that it was a kind of experiment that sought to open new perceptions in gamer minds. People said that the game was developed by Ed Rottberg, designer in those times of Atari and creator of the mythical "Battlezone", between(among) other games, between the year 1979 and 1981.
The Arcadian was created and distributed by Sinneslöschen INC. supposedly by order of the government of the United States. It is said that the name of the company "Sinneslöschen", it is a German word that means " loss of the senses ". It is necessary to emphasize that many(many people) affirmed that it was a highly addictive ROM initially(originally) though in a little time the players were starting generating hatred towards the game up to the point of forgetting completely the plot of the game.
However, they were not the only effects of the machine, after the studied lights one was finding an endless number of subliminal messages destined to affect the subconscious of the persons with messages of the type " Kill yourself", or small cuts between the music of the game in which phrases were heard like "Why do you damage to me? ", as well as an endless number of chilling images that were seen between the luminous sparkles of the screen.
Besides, some people assured to see like from time to time, a few strange men dressed in black were coming to the lounges where they were finding the machine taking annotations on the highest punctuations and, in some occasions, changing the configuration of the machines. Witnesses assured that these gentlemen had forgotten to go out of the menu of options and that when they looked at the screen they contemplated amazed how there were in same such parameters as " index of suicide ", " night terrors ", "amnesia" or " auditory hallucinations ".
Legend or not, the certain thing is that numerous cases of epileptic fits took place in the users principally motivated by the high number of brilliant and intermittent colors that the game was developing.
" Polybius", the strange and bizarre game
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