Polybius

[Zube]

No, not the Greek historian. An arcade game.

I am skeptical of the claims made on the following page, but they certainly
make for interesting reading.

http://www.clickto.com/coinop/GamePage/Polybius.html

Zube

[Brian Pipa]

Sounds like a hoax to me.

What were we talking about? I've suddenly got amnesia.
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Zube <Zu...@cs.colostate.edu> wrote in message
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[Cliff Boese]

I forget where my house is, hum, anyhow fif they have the ROM, can't
they figure out the gamne play somehow?
or atleast try to find the source code.

[Ben Collins]

Strange I dont remember playing this as a kid ....
but then all computer games are evil must destroy them so i may sleep well
at night.

-ben-

Think about it.

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[Appolo]

Zube <Zu...@cs.colostate.edu> wrote in message
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> http://www.clickto.com/coinop/GamePage/Polybius.html

This was one of the famed military video games developed during the 80s.
This game was so dangerous even the developers had to be divided up. The
specification for the game was divided up into "verb", "noun", "adjective",
"adverb", "preposition", etc. sub-specs. They could only see one line of
code at a time. If they saw two or more lines of code, they would completely
forget what they were working on and forget how to get home...

... or maybe I'm thinking about the world's most dangerous joke.

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[Ben Collins]

The joke that won the war:)
what a great sketch that was
-ben-

Appolo wrote in message ...

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On Sunday, February 27, 2000 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Zube wrote:
> No, not the Greek historian. An arcade game.
>
> I am skeptical of the claims made on the following page, but they certainly
> make for interesting reading.
>
> http://www.clickto.com/coinop/GamePage/Polybius.html
>
> Zube

The link is broken and the WayBackMachine is down for maintenance. :(

[John Robertson]

Archive.org has the page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000303224844/http://www.clickto.com/coinop/GamePage/Polybius.html

Looks pretty boring from the youtube versions.

Note this game appears to be an urban legend...

John :-#)#

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