Tempest (C) 1981/10 Atari arcade game initially meant to be a 3D first-person perspective remake of Space Invaders, did have some early release versions that caused motion sickness, vertigo & photosensitive epilepsy that were exaggerated &…
Tempest (C) 1981/10 Atari arcade game initially meant to be a 3D first-person perspective remake of Space Invaders, did have some early release versions that caused motion sickness, vertigo & photosensitive epilepsy that were exaggerated & distorted into tales of amnesia, insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, suicide, & men in black from a weird looking, kind of abstract, fast action game with some puzzle elements,
1980's police arcade raids for drugs, gambling , truancy & stolen goods did happen
1984 The Last Starfighter movie featured a conspiracies about a starfighter game
1985 Poly Play (C) a 1970s styled token-operated video arcade game machine with 8 pirated Russian versions of pirated Western games running on a rack based Russian business computer system of plug-in cards & Cyrillic chips that was one of the only East German approved & produced types until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 & most were scrapped
1994/06/11Usenet alt.music.pink-floyd user Publius posted a "Division Bell" puzzel instigated by the record company that was later wrongly remebered as being about the game or machine
1994/07/18 an East Rutherford Pink Floyd concert's front stage light patterns momentarily spelled out ENIGMA PUBLIUS , the prize would have been a crop of trees planted in a clear cut area of forest
2000/02/06 10:23:41 AM a clickto / coinop page was created describing Polybius (C) 1981/?? Sinneslöschen supposidly programmed by atari's Ed Rotberg & test marketed in portland Oregon for only 1 month , Sinneslöschen is FAUX German for sensory deprivation, sense delete, or nonsense.
2007/07/20 roguesynapse set up the Sinneslöschen website to offer
the freeware Polybius game & cabinet art for download for DIY gamers
"Tempest 1981" by ATARI ,
"Poly Play 1985" by unknown commie hacker,
"ENIGMA 1994" by usenet user Publius "
"Polybius 1981" by "Sinneslöschen 2000"
http://youtu.be/gDV-dOvqKzQ
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4362
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