If you need to get your Polybius fix, Trent Reznor is serving up some early-80s cabinet gaming goodness. Be careful that you don’t get sucked into the game’s mind-control issues once again.



The story tells of an unheard-of new arcade game appearing in several suburbs of Portland, Oregon in 1981, something of a rarity at the time. The game is described as proving popular to the point of addiction, with lines forming around the machines often resulting in fighting over who would play next. The urban legend describes how the machines were visited by men in black, who collected unknown data from the machines, allegedly testing responses to the game’s psychoactive effects. Players supposedly suffered from a series of unpleasant side effects, including amnesia, insomnia, night terrors and hallucinations.

I think I am still partial to the NIN Quake Main Theme.

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