According to Wikipedia, a urban legend is a form of modern folklore. That means that having some sort of urban legend about something mostly means that's shared by a wide community of people who perceives it as a form of popular culture.
We actually have a number of urban legends around the videogame world so, if we can argue for years about videogames being an art form or not, nothing can be said about it being a very important slice of humanity culture. Not bad as second place prize, huh.

Besides fanboysm, urban legends are mostly fictional events, unrealistically macabre or funny, presented as true - and so the videogame urban legends are: wrapped in a coat of mystery, we will never know how much truth they are hiding.
Coming up with the Polybius story at this point of the article it's pretty obvious. Polybius was supposed to be a videogame placed in few copies during 1981 in Portland arcades, coded by the mysterious Sinneslöschen for FBI in order to test mind control technologies on people.
Everything about this urban legend has been already said, probably culminating with the Ahoy's documentary POLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn't Exist as the best compendium.

The Wright! project tries to explore the thin line between right and wrong crossing the videogame world... and It's Halloween already! So... why not trying to scare you a little, this time? With something true, maybe?

Speaking of games... do you know the Blue Whale game? It's supposed that, in 2016, a group of a russian social network administrators guided a group of online players in a 50-days long real world violent game that ended with the player's suicide.

Is this story true? Well, we don't know it for sure... but it didn't stop it to become real.
A wave of true attempted and succeeded child suicides hit the world the next year, together with the arrest of many supporters, promoters and even supposed fathers of the game.

Is this surprising? Be honest: it isn't. We want these made up stories to be real because our daily life is boring. We aren't able to learn a lesson or even accept these fictional stories until they are true. Telling these stories or reciting them isn't enough... we've to enact them, in order to becoming witness of the legend and finally proving that real life is as interesting than fiction.

It's quite naive, isn't it? You've just to give life a closer look in the right way to see its marvels. But there are people that simply can't understand.

That's why I'm gifting the world with this issue game: Multytron. It's the first opensource attempt to actually implement Polybius with the effort of the community. It's still a draft and the effects I've tested on my friends are quite mild right now... but I hope that human foolishness will bring more ideas to the project, maybe coming from more scientific studies on the topic in the future - even when I'll be dead.

Use arrows for moving and the A button for firing. Read carefully the initial disclaimer. More info about the techniques I've used are into the game sources - have a look if you're curious. Good luck.

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