![]() ![]() Polybius has gone on to be the subject of television shows, music videos, documentaries, extensive investigations, an episode of The Simpsons, and has even become a real, purchasable game - more than once. ![]() The page for Polybius listed the game as having been copyrighted in 1981 (though no such copyright exists) and only briefly mentions "bizarre rumors" about the title before classifying its history as "unknown."īut, as we in the age of (say it with me) "fake news" know, the point of getting the story out there was not to have it debunked - it was to lodge it in the popular imagination of American gamers. ![]() The urban legend of Polybius gained popularity on Februwhen a listing for the game popped up on, a digital museum and database for arcade gaming. Get it? "Many lives," Arcadia, cryptic puzzles, his famous skepticism - it's almost too good a name for a spooky video game. His name itself means "many lives" in Greek. He is known for his affinity for cryptography and puzzles (he created the Polybius square, naturally) as well as his belief that historians should strictly report what they can verify through hard evidence and by interviewing witnesses. The original Polybius was an ancient Greek philosopher born around 208 B.C. The name Polybius itself was likely selected specifically as bait for the inquisitive and easily spooked. There's nothing about high scores or bonus levels in this book.
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