I love this version of polybius. No flashy stupid messages, beautiful soundtrack, great graphics, and fun gameplay. Edit: “VR Mode” Yeah, I would rather not lose the unusually big dinner I had a few minutes ago.
And the game knows it. It gives you several epilepsy warnings you have to confirm by not simply pressing a button, but by moving a cursor onto an "OK" zone
@@dot1298 It didn't, it's been confirmed Polybius was just a legend and didn't actually exist. It's still a pretty cool urban legend tbh, a CreepyPasta from before the internet age.
This game is named and based off an old arcade game that appeared in portland that would cause players to have headaches, get sick, have heart-attacks and even epileptic seizures, this game even killed a kid, this is a 3D remake
To anybody that is unaware of the legend of polybius you really should look it up. It's a lot for one comment but it's basically Men In Black that planted a video game in an arcade to study its effects on the human brain and sensory deprivation. This is actually the early stages for the program we would call MKUltra. This game took the details from The Legend and recreated it to the best of their knowledge
so the urban legend of this game was essentially, it was addictive, pretty much every game since the 80's, but it was TOO addictive, and because of the way the visuals were programmed kind of warps your vision if you look at the screen for more than 5 minutes, so it was pretty much too good of a game, but too color full and perspective warping to the point it was detrimental, but all video games risk you of having seizures though, so........it was just TOO good of a game, the average human psyche just couldn't handle it, imagine if you got interrogated by the FBI before the internet was in existence, for making a game that was TOO good
Kinda reminds me of Space Paranoids from the original Tron film. Just much faster and from a 3rd person view. Love simple yet addicting stuff like this!!
This reminds me of that one scene in the book Neuromancer when the main character is hiding in an arcade and sees his ex-girlfriend playing a trippy video game
Reading the comments while this video plays on the side is insane. Sometimes I think I see something out of the corner of my eye. It makes me jump, and when I look, I get a searing pain in my eye. I get this weird feeling like spacing out. After a while I go back to the comments and the cycle continues.
i would love to know how an obvious masterpiece like this becomes a commercial failure - are people so dumb that they don't know what a great game is ? sega need to get in touch with jeff minter to make a new "space harrier" game RIGHT NOW.
I'm not even joking this is 100% real, Either today was a rough day at school, Or What AVGN said was true, I Actually started to get a bit of a headache while watching this
@@roballroball7180 well it is but that not the only thing, it's cuz of the sounds, patterns, colors AND flashing lights, remember the guy who made Polybius was actually a person who achieved to mind control people in some way, it's kinda creepy but don't worry this remake won't do anything to ya.
They created a game so that the other original nightmare-maker Polybius can't be found that easy anymore, and so that its existence would be questioned and that it will may be forgotten in time....
I feel that I’m going more and more into a hypnotic trance the more I watch this. By the end of this video, it’s very likely that the government will have complete control of my brain and the men in black will probably come and pick me up and perform experiments on me in their secret bunker. I can feel alreadY that I’m startiNG to l0se my mind evEn though I’m onLY halFwAy inTO tHe vIde0. WhAT’s HapPenING? I doNT kn0w wHy I CaNT sT0p wA&;:(&€} Jho ;6m&&$;://;€
i didnt wach the hole vid . i just wanted to know were i could find actual gameplay lol i wanna know if this is a remake or based on the old game everyone says actually used to exist
I'm here thanks to AVGN. I'm also wondering, what if you played this high? Finally, anyone else get odd feeling while watching this video? I had to stop watching because that 'feeling' kept getting stronger.
According to Urban myths there was a game that was called polybius that basically gave you the effect of LSD and cause people to commit suicide it was supposedly a military project part of MK Ultra
@@crystalclearchaos5387 Well, MK Ultra was using psychedelig drugs, and that Game couldn't insert you drugs using playing, unless for some reason the controllers have vaccines in them.
This reminds me A LOT of NanoTek Warrior on the PS1, gameplay wise it's almost identical, but visually it's different (but just as trippy, if not more lol.)
It's visually attractive, flashy and beautiful Seems addictive It's pretty arcady It's as accurate as the famous recreation of the myth that came out before this one, it hits all the right notes ya know? I'd say it is.
It is. "Original": Seizure-inducing graphics, big addiction, shoot-em-up, trippy, weird mind control messages, not like anything ever seen before Interpretation: Seizure-inducing graphics, as much as it is allowed, addictive, shoot-em-up, weird messages, trippy, not like anything seen before 1980
I love this version of polybius. No flashy stupid messages, beautiful soundtrack, great graphics, and fun gameplay.
Edit: “VR Mode” Yeah, I would rather not lose the unusually big dinner I had a few minutes ago.
Yea, This is what Polybius should have been
Playing this in VR must be a massive acid trip.
Yup 🤮🤮🤮🤮
It is. But you'll get used to it very soon.
Tru
And I thought that Tetris Effect's "Mandala" was the trippiest it could get.
Or you mean trying to play it after taking a hit of acid?
After playing this myself, I now imagine that this is what the original polybius arcade cabinet was actually like.
Epilepsy Warning: The Game
Sure stuck to the original myth in that regard.
Only originals is ps4 version
you lost the game due to not paying attention to the warning
And the game knows it. It gives you several epilepsy warnings you have to confirm by not simply pressing a button, but by moving a cursor onto an "OK" zone
This looks like a REALLY state-of-the-art Arcade game from 1984.
1981.
Love how the sound design is made up of sound effects from all sort of Williams arcade games such as Defender, Robotron, Joust, etc.!
@@WhiteJarrah but how did this harmless game screw up people‘s brain 43 years ago? did we evolve so much since then?
@@dot1298
It didn't, it's been confirmed Polybius was just a legend and didn't actually exist.
It's still a pretty cool urban legend tbh, a CreepyPasta from before the internet age.
This actually looks fun to play. I like the fast paced shooting gameplay and colorful flashy visuals.
Try "Torus Trooper".
This game is named and based off an old arcade game that appeared in portland that would cause players to have headaches, get sick, have heart-attacks and even epileptic seizures, this game even killed a kid, this is a 3D remake
KBH PLAYS it is actually real people think this is fake but it isn’t its real well this game only exists in portland
@@imrulhaque1062 it isnt. at all. Its fun to believe but its not real, never was. Please dig further, its all a joke.
@@jjlegend3922 lol, area51 has a copy of Polybius
Altough the game Is bases of the myth it looks pretty fun
And hard
To anybody that is unaware of the legend of polybius you really should look it up. It's a lot for one comment but it's basically Men In Black that planted a video game in an arcade to study its effects on the human brain and sensory deprivation. This is actually the early stages for the program we would call MKUltra. This game took the details from The Legend and recreated it to the best of their knowledge
so the urban legend of this game was essentially, it was addictive, pretty much every game since the 80's, but it was TOO addictive, and because of the way the visuals were programmed kind of warps your vision if you look at the screen for more than 5 minutes, so it was pretty much too good of a game, but too color full and perspective warping to the point it was detrimental, but all video games risk you of having seizures though, so........it was just TOO good of a game, the average human psyche just couldn't handle it, imagine if you got interrogated by the FBI before the internet was in existence, for making a game that was TOO good
Currently playing this on PSVR. VERY INTENSE AND ADDICTIVE. 👍😀
Don’t look! Don’t look! Turn the video off right now!! Once you see it, it’s in you forever.
Its cool that they recreated the arcade version to the ps4
Polybius looks fun too play
No it will cause severe pain insominia
@@iwasgivenarandomname1318 that was the arcade myth, this is just based on it
One of my favourite arcade games when I was a kid
Wait what
WaiT
I live in the UK but my family went to America on a road trip I played it there.
a true incredible legend will finally play it in the year 2021
Just got the game 4 days ago and was having a blast. And boy, this game was *KICKING MY ASS!!!!!*
Kinda reminds me of Space Paranoids from the original Tron film. Just much faster and from a 3rd person view. Love simple yet addicting stuff like this!!
And knowing the creepypasta, addicting is the perfect way to describe Polybius
POV: you are high and speeding on a highway on speeds that aren't possible with 2026 technology
he got a lot of nightmares.
This cured my epilepsy
Closest thing to playing an acid trip I’ve ever seen
This is the most video game looking video game I've ever seen
This reminds me of that one scene in the book Neuromancer when the main character is hiding in an arcade and sees his ex-girlfriend playing a trippy video game
Man. I can't wait to join the US Navy and serve my country.
Swagons Yvan eht nioj
Lmao
I am in the CIA and we're making some game like this.
NO, TURN BACK NOW! THIS IS A GOVERNMENT BUILT BRAINWASHING TOOL! THEY'RE GOING TO USE YOU AS ONE OF THEIR TEST SUBJECTS!! TURN BACK NOW!!!!!!!
Reading the comments while this video plays on the side is insane. Sometimes I think I see something out of the corner of my eye. It makes me jump, and when I look, I get a searing pain in my eye. I get this weird feeling like spacing out. After a while I go back to the comments and the cycle continues.
When i saw the Nine Inch Nails video i was like "i wish that game really existed..."
LOL
yeah, I gotta play it now
Not only the flashing lights, but also the sudden sharp noises. Someone's gonna get a seizure.
A think that's the point is based on the Legends of a gane about the same kind of thing
The endgame of the TwulightZone Pinballmachine
looks fun. I heard a screaming girl! xD! i wish i had a ps4 so i could play that
Better than arcade POLYBIUS.
It has better grapichs than arcade and CIA-free. It is safe.
i would love to know how an obvious masterpiece like this becomes a commercial failure - are people so dumb that they don't know what a great game is ? sega need to get in touch with jeff minter to make a new "space harrier" game RIGHT NOW.
Agreed
This game is awesome in VR
Parasite1101 Really it looks like a month long migraine if played in VR
It’s way better in vr
Huge Trip: The Game
20:30 "Resist Brexit" excuse me WHAT
The music reminds me of Spin City’s early 2000s music. I nostalgia from it
This looks like it should be from Raw Thrills.
focus? we didn't even notice
I'm not even joking this is 100% real, Either today was a rough day at school, Or What AVGN said was true, I Actually started to get a bit of a headache while watching this
After watching this i feel genuinely weird .
It May be cuz of the flashing lights
@@roballroball7180 well it is but that not the only thing, it's cuz of the sounds, patterns, colors AND flashing lights, remember the guy who made Polybius was actually a person who achieved to mind control people in some way, it's kinda creepy but don't worry this remake won't do anything to ya.
I also got a headache
I played this game for the first time (for about 20 minutes), and I legit had difficulty walking upright afterwards
I own this and I still have an addiction to it.
I never stopped playing it, been like 4 years and I keep coming back
Now they’re trying to recreate the mind killing game that was only at an arcade for a week, great!
I swear the shapes make up words
OMG. I was only watching this for a few seconds, and MAN am I dizzy!
To say this game is seizure inducing is an understatement.
this cure my epilepsy
Star Fox :SOMEBODY TOUCHA MAH IDEAS
Are you crazy, the most scary urban legend game is in PS4 *but hey they make this game in PS4 not scary version*
The only scary thing about your comment is your english.
It hurts my eyes
Man, this is so drugged up and it is also a massive acid trip as well!
Nobody mentioned the Nine Inch Nails song "Less Than"! That's strange.
Man kingdom Hearst three has wierd gummy ship levels
From the German Company:
" Sinneslöschen " translation
Sense deleted
People playing Polybius in 1981:
This looks so fun and trippy it looks awesome
They created a game so that the other original nightmare-maker Polybius can't be found that easy anymore, and so that its existence would be questioned and that it will may be forgotten in time....
This is a much better version than the old polybuils
This would actually make a good arcade game.
Just played this game, thought the "you win" audio sounded familiar. Searched it up and its from a speak and spell.
I feel that I’m going more and more into a hypnotic trance the more I watch this. By the end of this video, it’s very likely that the government will have complete control of my brain and the men in black will probably come and pick me up and perform experiments on me in their secret bunker. I can feel alreadY that I’m startiNG to l0se my mind evEn though I’m onLY halFwAy inTO tHe vIde0. WhAT’s HapPenING? I doNT kn0w wHy I CaNT sT0p wA&;:(&€} Jho ;6m&&$;://;€
My brother likes this game so much, he started dancing on the floor!
Unoriginal
@@Zach135 Yep.
Where do I get this and what device can I get it on.
The best game ever!
Tempest 2000 VR could be even better. :-)
Vince Roc
To have seizures
(Sorry for wrong spelling, I think)
I agree
Yes very nice to have seisure
The infamous black sheep is back....
Who else was brought here by AVGN?
I didn't even know this game existed before watching AVGN''s video.
Me
ONCE YOU SEE IT ITS IN YOU FOREVER
i didnt wach the hole vid . i just wanted to know were i could find actual gameplay lol i wanna know if this is a remake or based on the old game everyone says actually used to exist
@@harpseal9234 Polybius is an urban legend that never actually existed. This game just uses the name.
getting 'Lawnmower Man' vibes ^_^ 👍🏄♂
opening of neuromancer :D
game visuals + fujiya miyagi song = head feels funny in a good way XD
i once played a demo of this game at a source, it was fun
CIA simulator 2017
I'm here thanks to AVGN. I'm also wondering, what if you played this high? Finally, anyone else get odd feeling while watching this video? I had to stop watching because that 'feeling' kept getting stronger.
It is like the feeling you get when you watch an IMAX movie.
According to Urban myths there was a game that was called polybius that basically gave you the effect of LSD and cause people to commit suicide it was supposedly a military project part of MK Ultra
It's called epilepsy lol. I mean, hopefully not though.
Take a line Chrystal Meth an play is Game 3 days around the Clock...
After this trip you are another Human...
@@crystalclearchaos5387 Well, MK Ultra was using psychedelig drugs, and that Game couldn't insert you drugs using playing, unless for some reason the controllers have vaccines in them.
I would like to have Polybius on my birthday
Help me, my hurting is head.
*Ah yes, Geometry massacre*
Daño cerebral, daño cerebral: ¡Epilepsia!
me after watching gamplay: oh my head oh hey grandma :) wait my grandma is dead for 3 years monkaS
This has a 1980s arcade game vibe to it
Its inspired by the urban legend.
Looks better when high
Play at 2x speed for your eyes to die
It genuinely hurts my eyes
Or have your memories and motor functions erased... _THEY ARE WATCHING..._
Someone actually made a mysterious game into the PS4?
Watching this makes me want to get up, turn this game off, and join the military
Track ID ? Thanks in advance. .
so the name was stolen from the 1981 game?
This reminds me A LOT of NanoTek Warrior on the PS1, gameplay wise it's almost identical, but visually it's different (but just as trippy, if not more lol.)
If not N2o
What's with all the background talk sounding like a safety video from an aircraft?
The talking is apart of the in game music called brace position.
i saw one near the end about brexit
who was brought here by Ahoy documentary?
Is this based on the 1981 polybious game?
More inspired than based, but yeah, at least the title is an hommage to the urban legend.
Polybius- Polybius! Polybius.
La li lu le lo... La li lu le lo...
This look fun
Can you Download this onto ps4
The rez 😳😳😳😳😳😳
Looks amazing
ARE YOU LESS THAN?
Hi I want to get your channel 😅
@@IQmrboss you what?
@@nothin245 Just nothing 😁
@@IQmrboss Oh! I gotcha.
@@nothin245 What did i do 🤨
i can't tell if this is worthy of the polybious name
It kind of isn't; I would like to imagine it's trying to clear the nightmare-inducing name of the initial rumour.
It is!
It's visually attractive, flashy and beautiful
Seems addictive
It's pretty arcady
It's as accurate as the famous recreation of the myth that came out before this one, it hits all the right notes ya know? I'd say it is.
It kinda is, it has much of the things that the supposedly original Polybius had, for example those weird subliminal messages
It is.
"Original": Seizure-inducing graphics, big addiction, shoot-em-up, trippy, weird mind control messages, not like anything ever seen before
Interpretation: Seizure-inducing graphics, as much as it is allowed, addictive, shoot-em-up, weird messages, trippy, not like anything seen before 1980
Imagine playing this on acid
So they basically did an update to Atari's Stun Runner arcade game.....
They turned it into Rez
Yay Swayzak
On my mamma I’m taking lsd on watching this video
Why mybrain spinning around
これは懐かしい。
It was supposed get into health problems this game.
Cost?
sample beauty ♥
I think this may be fan made.And if it is,it is impressive
It’s a Jeff Minter game. He’s been around the industry for decades. I’m talking commodore Pet and vic20 days.
This looks awesome