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Facts about Polybius Urban Legend
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Coin-op website operator Kurt Koller is widely credited with popularizing the Polybius legend online in the late 1990s.
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Portland, Oregon is the city where the Polybius legend claims the mysterious arcade machines briefly appeared in the early 1980s.
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No physical evidence of a Polybius arcade cabinet has ever been found, and the legend is widely considered a hoax or internet-era myth.
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According to the Polybius urban legend, the mysterious arcade cabinet was supposedly visited and monitored by men in black government agents.
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The Polybius urban legend describes a fictional 1981 arcade game said to cause amnesia, seizures, and psychological disturbances in players.