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Jeff Minter, the man behind Space Giraffe, TxK and GoatUp, is re-imaging the classic arcade game Polybius (you know the one) as a PlayStation VR exclusive.If you don't remember Polybius you're not alone. Not many actually played it, but everyone seems to know someone who knows someone who's played it. Word on the street was that it caused seizures, amnesia, or government agents to show up and recruit its best players for some kind of top secret The Last Starfighter-esque national security initiative.
If this sounds far-fetched, that's because it is. As we investigated last year, Polybius likely never actually existed, but enough people believe in it for a myriad of fascinating reasons involving actual government experiments, drug busts at arcades, children getting sick from too much gaming, and clever pranksters weaving these stories together into a narrative about an era so long ago our memories are bound to be fuzzy.
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