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Jun 29, 2026 28 min

Ep. 289 - The Game

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One of the most famous modern urban legends is that of Polybius, a mysterious video game that was released in Portland arcades back in the early 1980s. Supposedly teenagers who played this game suffered migraines, amnesia and strangely aggressive behavior. Was this game part of a secret government mind control experiment? In this episode we dig into the truth. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast YouTube: https://youtube.com/@theconspiratorspodcast?si=FrRe_b0FC8nH75m4 Notes: https://retro-bitch.com/2015/11/04/dying-to-play-the-berzerk-curse-fact-or-fiction/ https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2017/11/polybius-the-most-dangerous-arcade-game-in-the-world https://www.coinop.org/game/103223/polybius https://www.inverse.com/input/gaming/polybius-is-real-video-game-urban-legend https://www.ripleys.com/stories/polybius-the-most-dangerous-video-game-to-never-exist https://www.mentalfloss.com/fun/video-games/unraveling-legend-polybius-most-dangerous-video-game-1980s

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