Polybius the Deadliest Arcade Game | Case File 266

Support, Socials, Website, and everything ATT here: https://linktr.ee/alientheoristspodcastOn December 9, 1981, federal officers swooped into a number of local establishments in Beaverton, Oregon. While a few of the locations were bars and lodges, the main focus seemed to be a number of video game arcades. Witnesses were said to have reported seeing the FBI agents flooding into these dens of digital entertainment and removing a number of arcade cabinets which they loaded onto waiting trucks and then were shipped off to undisclosed locations. Shortly before the flood of federal activity, new stories had appeared in local newspapers that focused on a number of children who were afflicted by an onset of mental and physical maladies while playing certain arcade games. Headaches, disorientation, vomiting were just some of the symptoms they were reported to have suffered. Decades later, an arcade museum website would upload a listing for an obscure video game which was said to have been the center of all the reports of strange activity. This casefile, join the Theorists as they grab their joysticks and cram quarters into the slot of…Polybius the Deadliest Arcade GameOur Sponsors:* Check out Mood and use my code ALIEN for a great deal: https://mood.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy